Sustainable Land Management on Central Australian Rangelands - NT

Field Days

TMI’s Lance Mudgway attended the field days presented by Landcare NT and the Centralian Land Management Association at Aileron Station, Northern Territory this October.

Around 70 participants enjoyed talks on a wide range of subjects – including fire management, soil carbon and landscape rehydration. Lance’s presentations covered developing contours for landscape rehydration as well as providing a demonstration and field trip with Tim Wiley from Tierra Australia.

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Woodgreen Station

Following the field days, Lance was lucky enough to visit to Bob and Jim Purvis at Woodgreen Station, about an hour north east of Aileron. Bob has been building his soils after a catastrophic loss of soil in one large event in the 1960s, using various banks and water management devices.

One of Bob’s sediment capture banks, about 8 years old – water flows right to left.