Talaheni Horse Paddock, Murrambatman, NSW. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes

The aim of this project is to compile land use and management practices and their observed and measured impacts and effects on vegetation condition. The results provide land managers and researchers with a tool for reporting and monitoring spatial and temporal transformations of Australia’s native vegetated landscapes due to changes in land use and management practices. Following are the details about Talaheni Horse Paddock, Murrambatman, NSW.

Pre-European benchmark-analogue vegetation: The site was originally a Themeda sp. grassy woodland.

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management:
1830: Grazing of native vegetation - shepherds
1900-1961: Fencing and continuous grazing with sheep
1905: Overstorey thinned by ringbarking
1906-1920: Continuous removal of suckers and regrowth
1962: Remaining larger trees pushed over with a bull dozer
1962-1974: Continuous grazing with cattle
1968-1978: Four applications of superphosphate and exotic pasture species
1975-1982: Continuous grazing with horses
1983-1984: Continuous grazing with sheep
1985: Continuous grazing ceased
1986: Commenced rehabilitation
1987-2008: Area lightly grazed using rotational grazing with sheep
2008-2010: All stock removed - increasing high numbers of kangaroos.