Pasture management and the Euro problem in the North-West

Authors

E. H.M. Ealey, Wildlife section, C.S.I.R.OFollow
H. Suijdendorp

Keywords

Pasture management, Kimberley wallaroo, Sheep grazing

First Page Number

273

Last Page Number

286

ISSN

0021-8618

Abstract

OVER the past 20 years sheep numbers in the North-West of Western Australia have suffered a marked decline. In the Pilbara area, six stations have been abandoned, and about a dozen more are in a precarious position. If these were to be abandoned also, some 10,000,000 acres of sheep country would be idle. It is now known that the shrinking flocks have been caused by a deterioration in the pasture vegetation, particularly the disappearance of the more nutritious native grasses on which breeding ewes depended to provide the high-protein diet required for the production and rearing of their lambs.

Recommended Citation

Ealey, E. H.M. and Suijdendorp, H. (1959) "Pasture management and the Euro problem in the North-West," Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3: Vol. 8: No. 3, Article 6.
Available at: https://library.dpird.wa.gov.au/journal_agriculture3/vol8/iss3/6