{"id":1980,"date":"2014-11-24T07:11:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T12:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2014-11-24T07:11:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T12:11:56","slug":"radical-experiment-in-land-regeneration-at-western-australias-wooleen-station-proves-successful-abc-news-australian-broadcasting-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1980","title":{"rendered":"Radical experiment in land regeneration at Western Australia&#8217;s Wooleen Station proves successful &#8211; ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2014-11-24\/radical-experiment-in-land-regeneration-proves-successful\/5912386\">Radical experiment in land regeneration at Western Australia&#8217;s Wooleen Station proves successful &#8211; ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"first\" style=\"word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.3334; font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">As drought tightens its grip on Western Australia, one young couple&#8217;s radical experiment in land regeneration has survived years of next to no rain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.3334; font-size: 1.25em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">David Pollock and Frances Jones manage Wooleen Station, a half-million acre property in the Murchison Rangelands, seven hours&#8217; drive north of Perth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.3334; font-size: 1.25em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">Eight years ago, at age 27, Mr Pollock inherited the family&#8217;s pastoral lease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.3334; font-size: 1.25em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">Having observed the property&#8217;s decline due to drought and decades of over-grazing, he took the radical move of destocking all cattle from the station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.3334; font-size: 1.25em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">Intent on &#8220;nursing the property back to health&#8221;, 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.3334; font-size: 1.25em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radical experiment in land regeneration at Western Australia&#8217;s Wooleen Station proves successful &#8211; ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). As drought tightens its grip on Western Australia, one young couple&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,220,1392,234,1391],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-australia","tag-drought","tag-earthworks","tag-ecology","tag-over-grazing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}