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FIGURES
Figure 1. Watercourse of Eight Mile Creek. ........................................................................... xi
Figure 2. Mitchell River catchment with Oriners and Sefton Stations in the Alice River
subcatchments. .......................................................................................................... xv
Figure 3. Cattle stations in lower Mitchell River catchment, with outlines of Kowanyama
managed lands (red) including Oriners and Sefton Stations. ........................................ 2
Figure 4. Map of the lower Eight Mile and Crosbie Creek valleys and locations of the 4 major
lagoons discussed in the report: Oriners, Mosquito, Jewfish and Crosbie. .................... 5
Figure 5. Horseshoe Lagoon. ............................................................................................... 11
Figure 6. Cecil Hughes in Mareeba, July 2012. .................................................................... 20
Figure 7. David Hughes speaking at a Mitchell River workshop attended by KALNRMO staff
during the early 1990s. Image © KALNRMO............................................................... 24
Figure 8. David and Bill Hughes negotiating the sale with Kowanyama people. Image ©
KALNRMO .................................................................................................................. 25
Figure 9. Planning meeting at Oriners soon after the purchase. Image © KALNRMO .......... 26
Figure 10. Shed construction team, Oriners station. Image © KALNRMO ............................ 27
Figure 11. Cattle yards at Oriners Station. Image © KALNRMO .......................................... 28
Figure 12. Oriners house during construction. Image © KALNRMO ..................................... 29
Figure 13. Oriners house from the air in 2012. ..................................................................... 30
Figure 14. Paddy Yam, Philip Yam, Ravin Greenwool and his son Delvin at the Oriners
house in 2011. ............................................................................................................ 31
Figure 15. Billabong downstream from Oriners Homestead. ................................................ 41
Figure 16. Paddy Yam and Louie Native standing next to Grevillea pteridifolia in flower at
Mosquito Lagoon. ....................................................................................................... 47
Figure 17. Philip Yam with woody debris wedged by flood at Eight Mile Creek. ................... 51
Figure 18. Oriners homestead area in flood ©KALNMRO .................................................... 52
Figure 19. Philip Yam and Louie Native talk to Jeff Shellberg about flow patterns at Oriners.
................................................................................................................................... 55
Figure 20. Oriners Lagoon in flood ©. KALNRMO ................................................................ 56
Figure 21. Flooded Oriners airstrip.©KALNRMO .................................................................. 56
Figure 22. Flood level on trees downstream from Oriners homestead. ................................ 57
Figure 23. Large Woody Debris (LWD) deposited during flood on the Eight Mile Creek. ...... 58
Figure 24. Jeff Shellberg talks with Philip Yam, Louie Native, and Viv Sinnamon about
erosion and water flow along the Eight Mile Creek at Oriners. .................................... 60
Figure 25. Oriners country in flood. Image © KALNRMO ..................................................... 61
Figure 26. Flooded forest at Oriners. Image © KALNRMO ................................................... 61
Figure 27. Mitchell catchment in flood – Errk Oykangand National Park. Image © KALNRMO
................................................................................................................................... 62
Figure 28. Mitchell catchment in the wet season. Image © KALNRMO ................................ 62
Working Knowledge at Oriners Station, Cape York
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