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“All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”
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Landscape Management Workshop 2005

Profile No.8: "Monitor Site No.1"

Management objectives:
  • Maximum sustainable pastoral extraction
  • High level of succession
Site description / history / treatment:
  • Vegetation: Open field with dense green grass cover
  • Ground Cover: Dense cover of dead grass material, about 20cm thick; very hard to dig through
  • Soil Surface: Humic sandy soil, some compaction, slightly moist
  • Last Rainfall: Rainfall on Kachana 2004/2005
  • Fire: No recent fires
  • Biological: 900-1200 stockdays per ha per year (2 to 3 high density treatments)
  • Mechanical: None
  • Chemical: None
  • Bare ground in 1992
Profile description:
  • 0-7cm:Dusty sand with humus, held together by dense grass roots; color: grey
  • 7-25cm:Sandy humus layer, slightly moist, lots of grass roots; color: dark grey
  • 25-50cm:Sand with some humic compounds, slightly moist, some grass roots; color: grey to brown
  • 50-67cm:Sand mixed with gravel, moist; color: brown
 

Soil surface

Dense cover of dead grass

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