The intent of this project is to demonstrate drought resilience at scale and assess the environmental and economic outcomes of landscape rehydration in this arid, pastoral landscape. Working landscape rehydration demonstration sites were designed and constructed on creek catchments at the four participating stations.
All properties had various degrees of historical heavy grazing pressure degrading the topsoil, with subsequent reduction in ground cover resulting in overland flows that concentrated into incised and actively eroding channels that dehydrated the floodplains.
The results of this project will be widely communicated to encourage adoption of the proven drought resilience methods throughout arid rangeland regions of Australia.