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Long term ecological monitoring trial

Here at DCQ we use drones for lots of things but one of the main things we do is to use them to take lots of overlapping pictures of a site which computers can stitch together for form one image like grandma used to do when making a quilt. Now when you have this image...

Ayrshire Downs field day

A big thank you to our hosts, the Ogg family on Ayrshire Downs, who allowed us to hold a workshop on their property this week bringing together landholders, Government Officers from the Department of Regional Development, Manufacturing and Water and DCQ to provide...

Camel herd monitoring

The data from the monitoring program for the DCQ camel heard is due to be released in April and so monitoring has recommenced now that it’s drying out a bit. The camels still have their tags tracking their movement and the heat map shows how they favour some areas of...

BRICKWORK

Landholders from Muttaburra to Windorah, Boulia and Urandangi have been working on improving degraded country, and stopping erosion. With workshops and demonstrations funded by the Australia Government’s National Landcare, and Sustainable Agriculture Programs the...

MAKING THE LAND PRODUCTIVE: REHABILITATION AFTER DROUGHT

Unprecedented interest in a series of erosion and pasture rehabilitation workshops across the Desert Channels Region signifies the drive of landholders to improve pastures and return country to a sustainable level for commercial production after the ravages of...

THORNVILLE QUANDARY

In this month’s video, we have the premiere release of the Thornville Quandary where Peter and Mark Delahunty of Thornville, in the Muttaburra Region, tell of how their successful Prickly Acacia control left Mitchell Grass Downs with very little Mitchell Grass. In...