Len Webb Ecological Images Collection

Image No. 4-4

Land Use -- Queensland, North -- Wet Tropics Degraded grazing land with Lantana camara, Acacia melanoxylon and Pteridium esculentum Atherton to Ravenshoe Road, Queensland December 1963 Larger image (124K)

These lands were originally cleared for dairying, then used for cattle fattening for beef production. Economic pressure leads to abandonment of such enterprises, followed by weed invasion. These lands are first class for plantation forestry and present (1998) restructuring of the dairy industry on the Atherton Tablelands suggests timber plantations as future land use.
Cleared land formerly with simple notophyll and complex notophyll vine forests on soils from rhyolite and basalt. Altitude 1000 metres.
For references, see notes to Images 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-9, 3-10, 3-14.

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