Release of publication - plantations and water use from the Bureau of Rural Sciences
The new edition of the summary publication on plantations and water use was released yesterday. The major changes from the previous edition include the use of plantation area data to 2005 to show the proportions of plantations in catchments, a wider range of catchments, restricting the land use proportions to areas where average annual rainfall exceeds 600 mm and descriptions of research by CSIRO and BRS into the Murrumbidgee and Upper Murray catchments.