Savanna Prime Notes Information Sheets

Here you can read the Tropical Savannas CRC information sheets available on the Queensland Department of Primary Industries Prime Notes CD-ROM. This CD-ROM has more than 5600 advisory fact sheets from a wide variety of Australian government and research agencies. The information concentrates on natural resource management and agricultural topics.

Introduction to the Tropical Savannas

• Australia's tropical savannas (48 kb)
• Living with fire in the tropical savannas (106 kb)
• Weeds in the tropical savannas (53 kb)

Issues in savanna management

• New era for Aboriginal pastoralism (45 kb)
• Introduced grasses: poor master but useful servant? (71 kb)
• Savanna landscapes: defining health (47 kb)
• Landscape change in the savannas (475 kb)

Managing fire in the Savannas

Arnhem Land

• Indigenous fire practice in western Arnhem Land: Lessons for today (53 kb)
• Traditional and non-traditional viewpoints: Arnhem Land fire stories (61 kb)

Kimberley fire case studies

• Aerial burning in the north-east Kimberley (20 kb)
• Burning black soil grasses to protect productive country (20 kb)

Queensland fire case studies

• Fire as a management tool in the semi-arid tropics (27 kb)

Northern Territory fire case studies

• Fire management at Ban Ban Springs (58 kb)
• Fire management on Elsey Station (23 kb)
• Fire management on Mataranka Station (57 kb)
• Sacrificial burns protect critical country (46 kb)
• Fire helps protect grazing country (21 kb)
• The 'how-to' of firebreaks and aerial burns (86 kb)

Weeds in the Savannas

Mimosa in the NT

• Native grass species for revegetation (61 kb)
• How to attack mimosa on a grand scale (72 kb)

Weeds in the Burdekin Rangelands: General Issues

• An Overview (57 kb)
• Impacts (25 kb)
• Invasion processes (132 kb)
• Lifecycles (53 kb)
• Disturbance (51 kb)
• Principles of weed management (94 kb)

Weeds in the Burdekin Rangelands: Management

• Prickly acacia, mesquite and chinee apple (25kb)
• Castor oil plant and bellyache bush (19kb)
• Hymenachne (19 kb)
• Lantana (20 kb)
• Parkinsonia (22 kb)
• Giant rat's tail grass (22 kb)
• Parthenium (23 kb)
• Rubber vine (24 kb)

Managing rubber vine

• An experience-based approach to managing rubber vine (38 kb)
• Developing a rubber vine management plan (56 kb)

Biograze

• Biograze: managing watering points and wildlife (968 kb)

Biograze is a collaborative project by staff from CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, the Pastoral Board of South Australia, South Australian Department for Environment and Heritage, the Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory, and land managers in the regions in the rangelands. The project was jointly funded by these research agencies and the Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation.

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