Photo Libraries: Northern Territory Restoration
Cockatoo Creek, Kachana,
Australia in 1992 (late dry season)
Rainfall at Kachana averages approximately
750 mm/year.
Cockatoo Creek, Kachana, Australia in 1999 (early dry season)
The tools used to change this landscape were human
creativity, labor, and limited
technology (redirecting water to the area with gravity, hand-planting
runner grasses,
controlling stock with electric fencing, some mechanical mowing, but no
fertilizer).
By 1997 the Henngelers had a small herd of cattle
working for them. From then on
no more mechanical inputs were required. Irrigation is no longer necessary.
The area is now green all year round and as of 2001 they achieve 800 to
1100
stock-days/hectare/season in that area.
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