Landscape Management Workshop 2005
Profile No.7: "Burnt Spiral Palm"
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Management objectives:
- Maximum sustainable pastoral productivity
- High level of succession
- Stable creek banks
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Site description / history / treatment:
- Vegetation: Burnt down forest with pandanus, grevillea, eucalyptus
- Ground Cover: No ground cover, soil covered with 3-5cm of ash;
- Soil Surface: Dry dust and ashes
- Last Rainfall: Rainfall on Kachana 2004/2005
- Fire: Hot wild fires in October 1996 and August 2005 (2 weeks prior to sampling)
- Biological: 2 months low density grazing (cattle and horses)
- Mechanical: None
- Chemical: None
- Small stream of flowing water appeared after the fire
- Little green sprouts appearing wherever there is water
Profile description:
- 0-3cm:Dusty top soil mixed with ashes, some thin grass roots and thicker tree roots
- 3-23cm:Sandy soil with humic compounds, some tree roots; color: dark brown
- 23-60cm:Wet sand with ground water entry; color: brown to grey
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Soil surface
Laid out profile
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