As drought tightens its grip on Western Australia, one young couple’s radical experiment in land regeneration has survived years of next to no rain.
David Pollock and Frances Jones manage Wooleen Station, a half-million acre property in the Murchison Rangelands, seven hours’ drive north of Perth.
Eight years ago, at age 27, Mr Pollock inherited the family’s pastoral lease.
Having observed the property’s decline due to drought and decades of over-grazing, he took the radical move of destocking all cattle from the station.
Intent on “nursing the property back to health”, he also turned off all man-made watering points to reduce kangaroo and wild goat populations, and built infrastructure and earthworks to replicate natural ecosystems.
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