A shared purpose: increasing environmental, community and industry resilience in the Australian rangelands through improved natural resource management
Dionne Walsh A * and Leanne Kohler BA Australian Rangeland Society, Mount Lawley, Western Australia, Australia.
B Desert Channels Queensland, Longreach, Queensland, Australia.
The Rangeland Journal 44(6) 261-262 https://doi.org/10.1071/RJ23017
Submitted: 20 April 2023 Accepted: 24 April 2023 Published: 19 May 2023
© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the Australian Rangeland Society. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)
Abstract
In October 2021, the Australian Rangeland Society jointly hosted its biennial conference with Desert Channels Queensland in Longreach, Queensland. This Special Issue of The Rangeland Journal showcases papers from the conference.
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