Clearing mesophyll vine forest for cattle pastures. Echo Creek on King Ranch, Tully River Valley, Queensland, November 1963.

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Image No. 3-69
Land Use -- Queensland, North -- Wet Tropics
Clearing mesophyll vine forest for cattle pastures

Echo Creek on King Ranch, Tully River Valley, Queensland

November 1963

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Clearing for pasture establishment on the extensive scale in the King Ranch development destroyed a mosaic of tropical lowland vegetation types. See notes for Image 3-68.
Mesophyll vine forest on sandy granitic alluvium in tropical humid lowlands.

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