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Grassroots Magazine
Grassroots Magazine
Blade by blade, the Grassroots Magazine illustrates how 13 landholders have improved land condition on their central Queensland properties. Filled with beautiful images and heartfelt stories the magazine showcases what’s achievable in the Fitzroy region through regenerative agriculture and hard work.
Field guide
Queensland Marine Turtle Field Guide
This field guide has been developed as part of the Nest to Ocean Turtle Protection Program. Correctly identifying marine turtles, and the animals that prey on their nests, provides valuable information about turtle populations and shows where predator control activities are most needed
CQ graziers outline the benefits of undertaking Grazing BMP
CQ graziers outline the benefits of undertaking Grazing BMP
Central Queensland graziers talk about how they’ve benefited from undertaking Grazing BMP and how it’s helping them to improve their production, management and land condition.
Healing gully erosion at Mt Ball
Healing gully erosion at Mt Ball
Stuart Donaldson and his family have lived on Mt Ball since 1997, a 9,000 ha property originally part of the neighbouring property Keilambete purchased by his father in 1968. Mt Ball is situated on the Clermont-Rubyvale road (north-west of Rubyvale) and consists mostly of undulating country of very old geology scattered with numerous ‘younger’ basalt peaks.
Annual Report 14-15
2014-2015 FBA Annual Report
Pasture Budgeting in Central Queensland
Pasture Budgeting in Central Queensland Guide
Pasture budgeting is a technique used by landholders to understand their current land condition, and work towards its improvement. Fitzroy Basin Association Inc. (FBA) has published a book ‘Pasture Budgeting in Central Queensland’ to guide CQ landholders through assessing their properties.
Reducing the spread of Parkinsonia
Reducing the spread of Parkinsonia
On Donald Black’s property Langley, a 4,881 hectare cattle property about halfway between Middlemount and Clarke Creek, Parkinsonia—a Weed of National Significance—has gained a foothold, reducing the land available for grazing cattle and contributing a massive weed seed load for other properties further downstream.
Koala Habitat Fact Sheet
Koala Habitat Fact Sheet
Did you know some of the largest and healthiest koala populations in Queensland can be found right here co-existing with cattle grazing operations? Learn how you can make your grazing property koala friendly and what the benefits are of doing so.
Walking the Landscape Lower Fitzroy Catchment Story
Lower Fitzroy River Catchment Story
To effectively manage the catchment it is important to have a collective understanding of how the catchment works. This map journal gathers information from experts and other data sources to provide that understanding.
