The Wooleen way : renewing an Australian resource / David Pollock.
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TextPublisher: Brunswick, VIC : Scribe, 2019Description: 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925849257 (pbk.); 1925849252 (pbk.)Subject(s): Pollock, David | Bookclub collection | Ranches -- Western Australia -- Management | Agritourism -- Western Australia | Farms -- Recreational use -- Western Australia | Range management -- Western Australia | Range management -- Environmental aspects -- Western Australia | Agriculture -- Environmental aspects -- Western Australia | Agriculture and politics -- Western Australia | Droughts -- Western Australia | Droughts | Farmers | Restoration ecology | Revegetation | Soil conservation | Soil degradation | Farmers -- Biography | Droughts -- Australia -- Western Australia | Revegetation -- Western Australia -- Murchison Region | Restoration ecology -- Western Australia -- Murchison Region | Soil conservation -- Western Australia -- Murchison Region | Soil degradation -- Western Australia -- Murchison Region | Environmental responsibility | Land degradation -- Economic aspects | Land degradation -- Environmental aspects | Agricultural landscape management | Land degradation -- Western Australia | Land degradation -- Control -- Western Australia | Sustainable agriculture -- Western Australia | Farmers -- Western Australia -- Biography | Land use, Rural -- Western Australia -- Murchison Region | Country life -- Western Australia | Conservation of natural resources -- Western Australia | Agricultural conservation -- Western Australia -- Murchison Region | Wooleen (W.A.) | Western Australia | Wooleen Station (W.A.) | Murchison Region (W.A.)Genre/Form: Biography. | Autobiographies. | Biographies. | Autobiographies. DDC classification: 636.084509941 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult Nonfiction | 333.7316 POL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111074670421 |
Includes index.
"As seen on Australian Story"--Cover.
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The start -- ch. 2 The Southern Rangelands -- ch. 3 Wooleen -- ch. 4 Irrational fear -- ch. 5 Life at Wooleen -- ch. 6 Revelations -- ch. 7 Fixing the oldest landscape on earth -- ch. 8 Family malady -- ch. 9 Meat -- ch. 10 Home alone -- ch. 11 Dog-gone kangaroos -- ch. 12 The bluebush test -- ch. 13 Respect -- ch. 14 The Pastoral Lands Board -- ch. 15 Wooleen on welfare -- ch. 16 Watching the grass grow -- ch. 17 Australian Story I -- ch. 18 Rehabilitate land, not mines -- ch. 19 Drought -- ch. 20 Looking up -- ch. 21 Adopt an Acre -- ch. 22 Native title -- ch. 23 Lock it up and leave it -- ch. 24 Wed -- ch. 25 The dingo thing -- ch. 26 Solutions -- ch. 27 Till the cows come home.
A remarkable memoir detailing a heroic and unswerving commitment to renew the severely degraded land on Wooleen, a massive pastoral property in Western Australia's southern rangelands. The outback conjures many images that the Australian psyche is built upon. Its grand vistas of sweeping dusty plains and its evocation of a tough pioneering spirit form the foundation of our prosperous culture. But these romantic visions often hide the stark environmental, economic, and social problems that have inadvertently been left in the wake of our collective past.
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