jameslitsinger.files.wordpress.com · Web viewThe sheep and the saltbush: the utilization of Australia’s arid lands. Pages 742-752. Keywords: overgrazing by sheep, the wool industry

Chapter 40. Peter Crowcroft. 1972. The sheep and the saltbush: the utilization of Australia’s arid lands. Pages 742-752.

Keywords: overgrazing by sheep, the wool industry continues to receive a subsidy through the depletion of the natural capital of vegetation and topsoil, many areas now support no sheep as the plant cover is entirely gone, the problem lies with the beliefs and attitudes of local landowners, the remaining resources of arid areas could be permanently productive if used differently, the wrong perception occurred originally when the land was surveyed during an unusually wet era, Atriplex vesicarium, Kochia sedifolia