Publication Date

12-2008

Publisher

Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia

City

Perth

Abstract

The Commissioner of Soil and Land Conservation is required under section 137 (2) of the Land Administration Act 1997 to provide the Pastoral Lands Board with a report on the current condition of land under pastoral leases in the State. This report presents information from the Department of Agriculture and Food’s pastoral lease inspection program for the 2007/2008 financial year.

Pastoral leases cover 36% (89 million hectares) of Western Australia and range from the tropical grasslands in the north through to the arid shrublands in the south, with rainfall ranging from 1,400 mm in the north Kimberley to less than 200 mm on the Nullarbor Plain in the south. Pastoral leases are used for grazing of livestock on native vegetation. There are 467 pastoral stations made up of 516 pastoral leases in Western Australia.

This report refers to the northern rangeland region comprised of the East Kimberley (Kununurra Office), West Kimberley (Derby Office) and Pilbara (Karratha Office) pastoral districts, and the southern rangelands comprised of the Gascoyne- Murchison (Carnarvon Office) and Goldfields-Nullarbor (Kalgoorlie Office) pastoral districts.

Number of Pages

8

Keywords

rangelands, condition monitoring, pastoral lands board, Commissioner of Soil and Land, postoral leases, Western Australian Rangeland Monitoring System (WARMS), rangeland resource surveys, pastoral lease inspection program

Disciplines

Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment | Environmental Monitoring | Natural Resources Management and Policy

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