Vegetation monitoring

I guess it depends on who is doing it as to why, but it is a common practice all over the country.

Margaret and I belong to "Friends of the Great Victoria Desert" in South Australia. Just a week ago we were doing vegetation monitoring in Maralinga Tjarutjar Lands and Mamungari Conservation Park.
We have a couple of hundred photo points spread over the area and we try to take a photo in exactly the same direction from each point every 4 years.
Some of the points go back 30 years, so they form a very good record of the history of the vegetation over an extended period. This can help with fire and feral management. We are supported in this effort by the local community and Parks with whom we share all of the results.
At the same time, we also monitor several hundred specific quandong trees. Quandongs are a favorite of camels and the damage to them is a measure of the camel populations in various areas which help to justify culling programs.

Other agencies use similar vegetation monitoring for different purposes, like stocking levels on pastoral properties and kangaroo populations.



Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 motorhome

Austag : Might be a gravity survey site ??
An interesting review comment :))

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