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Best-bet Practices for Managing Grazing Lands in the Barkly Tableland Region of the Northern Territory
This technical guide has been written to help inform and improve grazing management in the Barkly tableland region of the Northern Territory (NT). It focuses on four major themes: managing stocking rates, spelling pastures, prescribed burning and property infrastructure development (p. 5).
A Station on the Barkly
This is the story of the author's grandfather Jerry Connolly, and of the part he played in establishing the famous Brunette Downs station in the isolated outback of the Northern Territory, at a time before there were any radios, telephones or motor vehicles. Three young men, Jim Hutton, Pat Kelly and Jerry Connolly, ran the station for nearly twenty years for owners 'down south' who never went near it. There were sometimes more than 20,000 cattle but no fences or bores, and the men had to contend with Aborigines made hostile by the loss of tribal lands and reduced to spearing cattle to survive. Before cattle could be sold they had to be walked more than a thousand miles to the Bourke railhead in New South Wales. Others with a part in this story include Tom Nugent of Banka Banka, legendary leader of "The Ragged Thirteen", Jim Gregory, jockey, horse trainer and likeable rogue, and Harry Readford, the inspiration for Captain Starlight of Robbery Under Arms. This book will remind readers of how Australia used to be before city life became the norm.
Field Guide to the Reptiles of the Northern Territory
A land of extremes, the Northern Territory’s arid deserts and monsoonal forests harbour some of Australia’s smallest and the world’s largest reptiles, as well as some of the world’s most venomous snakes. Field Guide to the Reptiles of the Northern Territory is the first regional guide to the crocodiles, turtles, lizards and snakes of this megadiverse region. It presents introductions to order, family and genus; keys to family, genus and species; and species profiles, including descriptions, photos, distribution maps and notes on natural history. It features profiles for the 390 species that occur or may occur on the land and in the sea of the Northern Territory. Extensively illustrated, this is an essential resource for wildlife enthusiasts and professional and amateur herpetologists.
Biggest Mobs - Longest Shadows
The biggest cattle stations in the world are located in Australia, and the biggest mobs of cattle are found on the Northern Territory's iconic Barkly Tableland.For more than thirty years photographer and writer Fiona Lake has roamed across northern Australia, documenting life on these remote but famous properties. "Biggest mobs - longest shadows" is Fiona's third book. It celebrates the beauty and immense scale of this naturally treeless ocean of grass, running hundreds of thousands of cattle in harmony with the natural environment. The book features more than two dozen cattle stations, interspersed with images of the people and native animals sharing this spectacular region.
Birds of the Darwin Region
Birds of the Darwin Region is the first comprehensive treatment of the avifauna of Darwin, a city located in Australia's monsoon tropics, where seasons are defined by rainfall rather than by temperature. With its mangrove-lined bays and creeks, tidal mudflats, monsoon rainforests, savanna woodlands and freshwater lagoons, Darwin has retained all of its original habitats in near-pristine condition, and is home or host to 323 bird species. Unlike other Australian cities, it has no established exotic bird species. Following an introduction to the history of ornithology in the region and a detailed appraisal of its avifauna, species accounts describe the habitats, relative abundance, behaviour, ...
A Way of Life
The author, who is English, emigrated to Australia in 1966 to work as a jackeroo on a vast cattle station in the Northern Territory, in the Barkly Tableland. There he camped out rounding-up cattle on horseback and branding calves for years - on and off - in the Kimberley (NT) until 1974. This book offers an account of those years.
