Len Webb Ecological Images Collection
Land degradation followed clearing of steep slopes of their rainforest and wet sclerophyll vegetation. Restoration of tree cover on the upper catchments is urgent. Plantation forestry with Hoop Pines and eucalypts (e.g. E. grandis, E. microcorys) is an option in some areas. Mixed species plantings using local rainforest trees, especially on stream banks is the long term land rehabilitation option.
Image No. 4-49Land Use -- Queensland -- South East
Severe soil slumping of weed infested regrowth
Kin Kin, southeast of Gympie, Queensland
December 1954
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Cleared complex notophyll vine forests on soils from phyllite and basalt.
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See notes for Image 3-14.
