Giving salt some history, and history some salt: Dryland salinity and the Dundas Tableland

Australian Historical Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 115, 2000, Pages 222-236

  Nathan, Erica ^a  

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EID: 44949230356     PISSN: 1031461X     EISSN: 19405049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10314610008596128     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. For a recent statement of this model, see Bryony Bennett, 'Dealing with Dryland Salinity", in Ecos (1998): 9-29. For a historical overview of the model's development, see Erica Nathan, 'Dundas Landscapes and Dryland Salinity' (M.App.Sd. thesis, University of Ballarat, 1998), 118-41;
2. F. Cope, Catchment Salting in Victoria (Melbourne: Soil Conservation Authority, 1958);
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4. F. Gibbons, The Dryland Salting Problem in Victoria: Review, Analysis and Proposals (Melbourne: Soil Conservation Authority, 1978);
5. P. Dyson, 'Dryland Salting and Groundwater Discharge in the Victorian Uplands', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 95, no. 3 (1983): 113-16;
6. J. Jenkin, 'Dryland Salinity Symposium: Introduction', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 95, no. 3 (1983): 101-3;
7. J. Jenkins and P. Dyson, 'Groundwater and Salinisation near Bendigo, Victoria', in Collected Case Studies in Engineering Geology, Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, eds Michael J. Knight, E J. Minty and Robert B. Smith (Sydney: Engineering Geology Specialist Group, Geological Society of Australia, 1983), 229-57;
8. C. Clifton and J. Taylor, eds, South West Research and Investigation Strategy Review (Melbourne: Department of Natural Resources and Environment, 1996).
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14. Downes, Land Management Problems, 4.
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22. Jim Rowan, Land Systems of Victoria, (Melbourne: Land Conservation Council, Land Protection Division, 1990).
23. Glenelg Salinity Forum, 10-12.
24. L. Lomas, 'Land Settlement in the County of Dundas, 1890-1914' (MA thesis, Monash University, 1971).
25. F. Gibbons and R. Downes, A Study of Land, 147; Glendinning Group Conservation Area, GA 98, SCA Archive, Melbourne.
26. See, for example, I. Voigt, 'A Case for Replanting the Dundas Tableland', Victoria's Resources 22, no. 3 (1980): 14-18.
27. Glenelg, 1848-52; T.Mitchell, Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia (London: Boone, 1838);
28. See, for example, P. Schroder and C. Clifton, 'Water Use by Perennial Pastures', in Clifton and Taylor.
29. 'Fodder Plants', Coleraine Albion, 19 September 1890.
30. Soil Conservation Authority, The Dryland Salting Problem in Victoria: Review, Analysis and Proposals (Melbourne: SCA, 1978).
31. For overview of Aboriginal environmental literature, see James Kohen, Aboriginal Environmental Impacts (Sydney: University of NSW Press, 1995), 35-42.
32. Ian Clark, Aboriginal Languages and Clans: An Historical Atlas of Western and Central Victoria, 1800-1900 (Melbourne: Monash Publications in Geography, 1990).
33. A. Kenyon, Map of the Pastoral Holdings of the Port Phillip District, 1835-51, 1932, La Trobe Library, Melbourne (hereafter LL); Portland Bay District map in R. Spreadborough and H. Anderson, Victorian Squatters (Melbourne: Red Rooster Press, 1983).
34. A. Robertson, Victoria, Squatting Licenses, Western Sheet, 820 BJF 1863, LL.
35. Robert Mason, Map of Portland Bay, 1847-48, M&SB 825A, LL.
36. Arbitration evidence; J. Palmer, William Hoodie: A Pioneer of Western Victoria (Mortlake: n.p., 1973)
37. Margaret Kiddle, Men of Yesterday: A Social History of the Western District of Victoria. 1834-1890 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1961), 132-46;
38. T. Bride, Letters, 158;
39. A.G.L. Shaw, A History of the Port Phillip District: Victoria Before Separation (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), 150-69.
40. 'Labour Shortage', Portland Guardian, 11 January 1845.
41. 'Native Attacks', Portland Mercury, 31 August 1842;
42. J. Hamilton, Pioneering Days in Western Victoria: A Narrative of Station Life (Melbourne: Exchange Press, 1914).
43. See also J.A. Critchett, A 'Distant Field of Murder': Western District Frontiers, 1834-1848 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990).
44. John Mackersey, Kenilworth (North Estate) Journals, (1859-1871), Hawke's Bay Museum, New Zealand, microfilm PA 98/4, IX. This diary gives a sense of the fluidity of boundaries even by the early 1860s, an appreciation of the lack of internal subdivision on one of the oldest tableland estates, and the transition between shepherding and enclosure as brush fences were completed
45. 'Salting Investigation', SC/S/39, SCA Archive.