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. Who has the knowledge and information? . Who must manage the system in practice? . Who is responsible for maintaining the resources? . Who benefits from achieving sustainability? o Who pays the price for ecological failure? Ideally the manager espouses community environmental values and can afford to apply a conservative production system while making a reasonable income. In practice a range of factors may prevent this from happening, including: 1. Impractical idealism of the community. 2. Economic pressure on landholders unable to take the long term view, Unwillingness of landholders to accept recommendations by others. 4. Lack of understanding by the landholder of the results of unsound clearing and overgrazing. 5. Inability of advisors to develop sound and acceptable clearing guidelines. 6. unwillingness of government to provide appropriate incentives for sound land management. The writer suggests that all the above six factors are of significance in Queensland at present. So what's a fair thing to ensure that the practical manager is given appropriate independence of action while guaranteening that the national soil resource is maintained? Firstlv a sound set of guidelines on where and how clearing should be done, must be developed and agreed to by producer organizations and departmental authorities. This needs to be qualified for each rainfall and major soil region. Secondlv an intensive information campaign for landholders on the dangers of unsound clearing and the principles of sustainable land use planning must be implemented in all pastoral regions. Thirdlv, government must develop a drought assistance policy which encourages land stewardship by being seen to reward conservative stocking and the conservation of feed for dry times . The Western Australian Situation In Western Australia the very large scale clearing of potentially saline sandy soils has caused serious problems and 104 District Soil Conservation Committees have been formed since 1982 to initiate better land use. These committees are authorized: 1. To recommend supplementary shire land ratings as a source for land improvement funds. To inspect, and recommend on, any proposed clearing.
The question must now be asked whether it is practical and acceptable for anyone other than the landholder to make binding recommendations on proposed clearing. If not, can the competence and integrity of the landholder be depended on? Other States use various combinations of departmental and producer group representatives to recommend on clearing. What's the Role of Land Care committees? The terms of reference of the new committees in Queensland requires them to encourage conservation farming by all means available including property planning. They are also expected to play an educational role in their entire community and to advise the department of needs and progress in their shire or catchment. Committees can also lead by example and establish persuasive demonstrations of sound practices. It seems reasonable however, that Land Care Committees, elected by all shire landholders, should also recommend on clearing, at least on land which is not freeholded. It is suggested that clearing guidelines and procedures be given serious attention at an early date. Such attention is required (i) from Land Care Committees who may be seen to be failing in their responsibilities if they do nothing, (ii) from the QDPI who administer the Soil Consenration Act, (iii) from the Cattlemen's Union and United Graziers Association whose members hold tenure of the land, and (iv) from the Lands Department who control covenants on leases and the issue clearing permits. References 1. Anderson, E. and Dowling, A. 1987. Think before you clear the trees on your land. Qld. Ag. J. 113: 55-57. 2. Roberts, Be 1984. Lessons from past land development. T.E.A.M. Seminar on Cropping in Western Queensland, Roma. 5 October 1984, DDIAE. 3. Roberts, Be 1987. The Burdekin Catchment. Video, DDIAE . 4. Roberts, B. 1989. Tree Clearing: time for rational debate. T.E.A.M. Discussion Paper, DDIAE. 5. Roberts, B. 1989a. The Care Takers - Pastoral Property Planning. Video. DDIAE.
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SOUL CObJSERVATION PEOPLE, RELIGION
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with " Generous sod", Dennis displa
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Stewardship - What Is It? Stewartls
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the earth's resources. However, it
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Certainly the earth and thus man, w
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That each Church set up a commissio
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LET THE RED VAN SPEAK In 1854 "the
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WHAT SHOULD WE TEACH What must the
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established a dualism of man and na
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R IBLIOGRAPHY Anonymous. 1985. Stat
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PREFACE : This paper has been writt
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vital supplies. The once-heroic pio
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to land use decision-making which t
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a approach for Australia. The dange
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As Ashby points out past experience
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exclusive right to use the land, ne
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matter. They certainly don't do tha
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a constraint on our freedom of acti
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and every individual creature and t
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Christians was noted. Both display
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Nature's Harmonies'. As David Lowen
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key phrases in Genesis are: "Have d
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Can Values and ~thics be Taught? Pl
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"The university's job may not be th
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coming generations. The list below
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National goals should change as pro
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indicators can continue to progress
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the problems of the present. It sho
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Cook, E. 1970. Environmental Ethics
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Santmire, H. P. 1970. Brother Earth
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present parties, have failed to con
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government. In this way the long-st
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proportions,. - _ 6. We must bring-
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an Land Degrad By Brian Roberts The
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principles ror de~elopment In \uch
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REFERENCES Anonymous. (1978). Basis
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