Centralian Project update - NT

Pastoral Production Officers Chris Materne and Lakota Taber, and Pastoral Extension Officer, Farida Abubakari recently gave Mulloon Institute's Lance Mudgway and Erin Healy a tour of the Old Man Plains (OMP) Research Station outside of Alice Springs. The OMP Research Station was established in 2004 and now serves as an impressive demonstration site for cattle husbandry, technological advances, and land management practices, all in accordance with the best practice principles for Central Australia.

The Mulloon Institute's Lance Mudgway and Erin Healy recently hosted the Arid Zone Research Institute’s Pastoral Production and Extension Officers, Lakota Taber and Farida Abubakari, and Shannon Hayes from the Northern Cattleman’s Association at Narwietooma Station in Central Australia. Narwietooma Station, owned by the Hewitt Cattle Company, is home to one of the four Landscape Rehydration demonstration sites for the Central Australian Rangelands Project.

Lance and Erin have finished the first stage of design works and construction oversight for four Landscape Rehydration demonstration sites in the Central Australian Rangelands in the Northern Territory. They have been busy setting out works at Ahakeye Aboriginal Land Trust, Glen Helen Station and Narwietooma Station and building the capacity of station managers and rangers to continue undertaking Landscape Rehydration works.

The Centralian project is funded by the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund - Drought Resilient Soils and Landscapes Program through Charles Darwin University.