Episode 13: Woodleigh Station Land Management Project

12/03/2019 14 min Temporada 1 Episodio 13
Episode 13: Woodleigh Station Land Management Project

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Woodleigh Station is a working beef cattle business that embraced sustainable landuse and grazing best practice. Management of stocking levels, extensive fencing and provision of of stream watering points are strategies adopted by the station to ensure long-term sustainability. In this episode Greg talks to landholder Kate Wardell about their strategies and the implications for their business. In particular, the discussion turns to a project to stabilise a major erosion system on the station, with the construction of a fishway, bunding and reconfiguration of a dam wall, works undertaken under Terrain NRM's Upper Herbert River Sediment Reduction Project.