Len Webb Ecological Images Collection

Image No. 3-8

Land Use -- Queensland, North -- Wet Tropics Soil slumping in cleared and burnt rainforest Evelyn Tableland between Atherton and Ravenshoe, Queensland December 1963 Larger image (126K)

Clearing steep slopes for cattle grazing leads to land degradation in river catchments.
Complex notophyll vine forest on basaltic red loams on wet uplands, ca. 1000 metres.
References:
Webb, L.J. (1957) "Catchment deterioration - a combined agricultural and forestry problem". Journal of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science 23:251-252.
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.Journal of Applied Ecology 8: 99-121.

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