Eversfield Station Nature Refuge, via Roma (South-west Queensland)
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Location: Approximately 125 kilometres south-west of Roma
Size: 17,985 hectares
Tenure: Grazing Homestead Perpetual Lease
Infrastructure: Lowset fibre cement 3 bedroom home with corrugated iron roof. There is also a workshop, machinery shed and shearing shed.
Utilities: power, telephone.
This property was previously used for cattle breeding, ostrich farming, goat harvesting and sheep grazing. It includes parts of the perennial Mungallala Creek system with numerous waterholes. Eversfield Station Nature Refuge is watered by a bore and 15 earth tanks and dams.
Conservation values: In excess of 14 different vegetation communities have been identified with many of these poorly representated in Queensland’s protected area estate. There are also a number of ecosystems regarded as of concern or endangered.
The Trust established a conservation agreement in June 2008. The Everesfield Station Nature Refuge conservation agreement has achieved considerable improvement in riparian and landscape corridors. Areas within 100m of Mungallala and Dulbydilla Creek are to be revegetated and managed as remnant vegetation. This amounts to thousands of hectares of land that will be protected from further clearing.
Some of the more significant regional ecosystems on the property are:
- Acacia harpophylla and/or Casuarina criscristata open forest on fine-grained sedimentary rocks described as the endangered regional ecosystem 11.9.5 that has low representation in the protected area estate; and
- Acacia harpophylla, Eucalyptus populnea open forest on fine-grained sedimentary rocks described as the of concern regional ecosystem 11.9.10 that has low representation in the protected area estate.
- Eucalyptus populnea woodland on alluvial plains, described as the of concern regional ecosystem 11.3.2 that has low representation in the protected area estate;
- Eucalyptus populnea ± Acacia aneura ± E. melanophloia woodland on Cainozoic sand plains/remnant surfaces, described as the of concern regional ecosystem 11.5.13 that has low representation in the protected area estate; and
- Acacia catenulata ± A. shirleyi ± Eucalyptus spp. Open scrub on crests and slopes, described as the not of concern regional ecosystem 6.7.1 that has no representation in the protected area estate.
Last updated: 18 November 2009