Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) and rainforest regrowth in landscape cleared for cattle grazing several decades previously. Burringbar Range near Mullumbimby, New South Wales, September 1959.

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Land Use -- New South Wales -- North East
Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) and rainforest regrowth in landscape cleared for cattle grazing several decades previously

Burringbar Range near Mullumbimby, New South Wales

September 1959

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Soil degradation through loss of nutrients is common in this type of country, e.g. East Dorrigo, N.S.W. and Kin Kin, Qld.
Araucarian notophyll vine forest on soils from metamorphics with basalt enrichment.
References:
Webb, L.J. (1966) "Rape of the Forests." In: The Great Extermination: A Guide to Anglo-Australian Cupidity, Wickedness and Waste. Chapter 8. Ed. A.J. Marshall, pp. 156-205. Heinemann: London.
L.J. Webb and J.G. Tracey (1967) "An ecological guide to new planting areas and site potential for Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii Ait.)" Australian Forestry 31: 224-239.

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