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  Mallee - Home
The Mallee Catchment Management Authority (CMA) was established in 1997 under the Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994 as the peak advisory body on directions and priorities in catchment management in the Mallee region.
The primary responsibility of the Mallee CMA is to ensure that natural resources in the region are managed in an integrated and ecologically sustainable way.
This requires the coordination and implementation of Mallee Regional Catchment Strategy in consultation with all community stakeholders.
www.malleecma.vic.gov.au   (150 words)

  
  Australian mallee moths and their relatives
Mallee moths and their close relatives in the family Oecophoridae represent one of the most remarkable evolutionary radiations in the Australian environment because there are so many species.
Mallee moths are closely connected to the eucalypt forests and woodlands that cover much of the Australian continent.
Mallee moths play an important role in recycling dead plant nutrients back into the food chain in the form of animal tissue and frass (droppings).
www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/mallee_moths.htm   (824 words)

  
 Mallee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mallee is a term used to describe the habit of species of Eucalyptus that grow with multiple stems (from ground level) that are nornally below 10 meters tall.
The Mallee is a district of far north-western Victoria, south of the Murray River and north of the Wimmera, that originally contained vast areas of mallee, some of which still survive.
Division of Mallee, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives in rural Victoria.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mallee   (234 words)

  
 The Mallee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most of the Mallee consists of sand dunes that have been deposited as a result of movement of sand from the interior of Australia during arid glacial periods of the Quaternary.
The Mallee has no surface drainage: the native vegetation has so high a rooting density that the rainfall of most years is easily absorbed and the porous sandy soils mean that any excess in an exceptionally wet year will recharge groundwater supplies which tend to be highly saline.
The Mallee is a primarily agricultural region: apart from possible mineral sands in the weat and salt from certain ephemeral lakes there are no mineral deposits of value and industry is generally on a small scale and confined to food processing.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Mallee   (881 words)

  
 Aboriginal Didgeridoos - Mallee, Termites harvesting and regrowth
Mallee (an Aboriginal word) is a growth-form rather than a particular specie, that is, a Eucalypt having many stems arising from a large, underground, woody swelling composed of stem tissue called a lignotuber.
Mallee is also widely used to describe the plant communities and regions where these plants predominate.
The Mallee growth-habit can occur in response to a variety of stress conditions, the major stresses involved are shortages of water, fires, termites or felling.
www.wadidge.com.au /mallee.html   (1270 words)

  
 Regional Snapshots - Murray Mallee
The Murray Mallee area covers approximately 20,000 km squared, bounded by the River Murray in the north and west, the Victorian Border to the east, to approx 50 km south of Lameroo and Pinnaroo.
The Murray Mallee is dominated by dryland farming.
Biodiversity: With uniform crops forming the majority of the landscape in the Mallee, human interference and the decline of native habitats, there are concerns about the impact of ecosystems of the Mallee and how the current balance is being maintained.
www.rivermurray.sa.gov.au /regional/mallee.html   (556 words)

  
 Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Esperance mallee (AA1202)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mallee vegetation is widespread in Western Australia because these plants can survive in areas with low rainfall and poor soils.
The Esperance Mallee ecoregion is an extensive shrubland dominated by mallee.
Fires are a key component of mallee habitat and the dormant buds enable the trees to quickly produce new stems after fires.
www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa1202.html   (454 words)

  
 Mallee News
The Mallee Division of General Practice (Suzi Zivec) is currently working on the development of the analysis tool; a survey and face to face meetings with stakeholders, will be conducted in the near future.
The Mallee Division is currently putting the finishing touches to its implementation plan with activity due to commence in a couple of months.
The Mallee Division will be doing all it can with its limited resources to lessen the impact of the lack of funding to aged care facilities and to maximise their involvement in the program.
www.malleedgp.com.au /malleenews.php?id=8   (2181 words)

  
 Biodiversity - Ecological Communities - A Biological Survey of the Murray Mallee
The Murray Mallee Survey recorded 31 extant mammal species of the 66 recorded from the area since European settlement.
Using this analysis as a basis, a vegetation map of the Murray Mallee was produced comprising 37 regional plant communities based on the dominant upper-storey plant.
A full report of 'A Biological Survey Of The Murray Mallee, South Australia' is available as an Acrobat PDF file.
www.environment.sa.gov.au /biodiversity/murraymallee.html   (544 words)

  
 Mansions in the Mallee - October - Scribbly Gum - ABC Science Online
The dappled light under the Mallee is a perfect camouflage for the spotted malleefowl.
Where larger tracts of mallee remain, they're often in areas unsuitable for agriculture and so are often of marginal quality for malleefowl too.
In NSW the majority of remaining mallee habitat is currently under pastoral leasehold, most of which is subject to grazing by stock.
abc.net.au /science/scribblygum/October2000/default.htm   (2273 words)

  
 Mallee Report Card   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bordered in the north by the River Murray, the region includes the Mallee Basin and sections of the Wimmera, Avoca and Millicent Coast Basins in the south and east and is classified as semi-arid.
The Mallee region produces up to 50 per cent of Victoria's cereals, close to 100 per cent of Victoria's dried vine fruits, 30 per cent of Australia's wine grapes, 70 per cent of Victoria's table grapes and significant proportions of the nation's citrus, avocados, olives, and vegetable crops.
The Mallee region is being challenged to maintain and improve the ecological and environmental health of its natural resources.
www.nrm.gov.au /state/vic/mallee/publications/report-card/index.html   (1124 words)

  
 Mallee fowl: This Australian bird always knows the temperature
The mallee fowl is sometimes called the “thermometer bird,” because its ability to monitor temperature in its egg-chamber is so accurate.
If the mallee chick's parents couldn't tell when the temperature in the egg-chamber was exactly 33 degrees Celsius (91-92 degrees Fahrenheit), their eggs wouldn't hatch.
Mallee fowl don't sit on their eggs like most birds do to let their body-heat incubate the eggs.
www.users.bigpond.com /rdoolan/malleefowl.html   (942 words)

  
 Mallee Worm-lizard - endangered species listing
The forelimbs of the Mallee Worm-lizard are entirely absent and vestigial hindlimbs occur as small scaly flaps near the cloacal vent.
The Mallee Worm-lizard is distributed in a narrow band from southeast Western Australia, through southern South Australia, the northwest corner of Victoria and southwestern New South Wales (Cogger 2000).
The distribution of the Mallee Worm-lizard is severely fragmented such that local populations of the species are vulnerable to extinction via stochastic events.
www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au /npws.nsf/Content/mallee_worm-lizard_endangered   (659 words)

  
 NRE: Victoria's Biodiversity   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Lowan Mallee bioregion is typified by a complex array of jumbled dunes and east-west trending dunes with intervening plains of deep white siliceous sand.
The Murray Mallee bioregion is typified by an extensive, undulating sandy plain that is often overlain by linear, east-west aligned, stabilised sand dunes with intervening heavier textured swales.
Heath of the Lowan Mallee appears to be affected by fire intensity, whereas timing appears to be the critical factor in mallee shrublands and grasslands of the Murray Mallee.
www.nre.vic.gov.au /plntanml/biodiversity/directions/mallee.htm   (2521 words)

  
 John Mallee's Pro Style :: View topic - GRIFFITH: Local baseball instructor hopes to reach 'The Show
Mallee also saw a lot of good things in Duncan, and he saw them up close as Duncan's hitting coach amid the Arizona Fall League.
Mallee, the hitting coordinator for the Florida Marlins and the franchise's 2004 Player Development "Man of the Year," was nominated and chosen for the Grand Canyon Rafters' staff.
Mallee is waiting for subsequent interviews with Girardi and the team's general manager.
www.prostylebaseball.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=1806   (480 words)

  
 Nature Sounds by David Stewart - Mallee Bird Calls
The mallee regions of south-eastern Australia, although very dry, have a diverse range of bird species.
A summary of mallee National Parks and conservation reserves for this region are included in the cover.
This CD presents a range of calls of birds known for their amazing vocal abilities as well as those that are known only to this region, or are difficult to observe.
www.naturesound.com.au /cd_mallee.htm   (333 words)

  
 Parks - Parks & Reserves - Murraylands Region - Mallee Parks
It is a gently undulating calcrete plain with low easterly trending sand dunes and shallow depressions in the east dominated by Mallee vegetation.
The country is characterised by sand dunes with a mosaic of open Mallee scrub.
The vegetation is typical of the southern Mallee region with low woodland of Brown Stringy Bark Ridge-fruited Mallee and Pale-barked Blue Gum on the steep dunes whilst Ridge -fruited Mallee and Coastal White Mallee inhabit the low dunes.
www.parks.sa.gov.au /parks/parks/murraylands/mallee_parks/index.htm   (1983 words)

  
 Biodiversity - Threatened Species - KI Narrow-leaf Mallee
Kangaroo Island Narrow-leaf Mallee trees are often the only trees remaining on properties in eastern Kangaroo Island.
Pollarding involves cutting mallee trunks to ground level to encourage the tree to regrow.
Alternatively, a light covering of mallee tops over the stumps may be sufficient to inhibit some browsing.
www.environment.sa.gov.au /biodiversity/narrowleaf.html   (789 words)

  
 Oil Mallee Company - Planting trees for carbon sequestration
For 10 years farmers have planted mallees in anticipation of developing a fully sustainable industry based around the use of short rotations where the trees are coppiced for financial return.
Kansai paid OMC to plant 1,000 hectares of mallees for the purpose of carbon sequestration to offset the carbon emissions produced as part of their power generation activities.
In broad terms, the mallee plantings act as a “carbon sink” because they take carbon out of the atmosphere and lock it up in the leaves, trunk, branches and roots of the tree.
www.ballarat.edu.au /projects/ensus/case_studies/oilmallee   (2017 words)

  
 Oil Mallee Industry set for Major Growth
The Oil Mallee Company of Australia was formed by the Oil Mallee Association, which has over 1000 members, in 1997.
Professor Shea, the Chairman of the Oil Mallee Company, said that this initial planting was being undertaken by Kansai to demonstrate the potential of mallees to absorb carbon dioxide on a large scale and to contribute to reducing salinity.
"Mallee Eucalypts were an ideal tree to create a carbon sink because of their ability to grow at high levels of productivity in low rainfall areas, their capacity to form a large underground sink (the mallee root) and their longevity.
www.oilmallee.com.au /media/kansai.html   (544 words)

  
 Integration of Biodiversity Into Regional NRM Planning: Case Study 15 - Draft Mallee Native Vegetation Plan (Victoria)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This project contributes to all six objectives of the draft Mallee Native Vegetation Plan (Mallee CMA, 2000) by increasing awareness and appreciation of native vegetation, protecting and enhancing remnants, encouraging landholders to integrate native vegetation management into agricultural practices and utilising native vegetation to rehabilitate degraded landscapes.
Actions of the Mallee Roadside Management Strategy (Mallee CMA, 1998) have also been addressed, in particular, educating the community on the value and importance of roadside vegetation.
The Mallee CMA initiated a Steering Committee and a technical sub-committee to oversee development of the plan.
www.deh.gov.au /biodiversity/publications/case-studies/mallee.html   (647 words)

  
 Murray Mallee - Local Action Planning Association
Industry in the Murray mallee is dominated by dry land farming; however irrigated horticulture has become a major land use in the south-western section of the mallee.
The Murray Mallee region consists of gentle undulating plains with a diverse and rich natural vegetation comprising of Mallee woodlands, heath lands, grasslands and shrub lands to name but a few.
The Murray mallee has approximately 20% of original native vegetation left containing a broad diversity of life which contributes to sustaining the health of the region's natural resources.
www.rivermurray.sa.gov.au /lapgroups/mallee   (314 words)

  
 Mallee   (Site not responding. Last check: )
At 3500 square kilometres, it’s Victoria’s third largest and has a chain of normally dry lake beds, mallee scrub, river red gum and fl box woodlands, and rolling sand plains, with emus, kangaroos and mallee fowl among its wildlife.
A sealed road goes to the Wonga Campground, where there’s a shady camping and picnic area with water and toilets, as well as an information centre (tel 03/5395 7221) where you can find out about the many walks in the park; this is also a good area to explore on a mountain bike.
From here the mallee scrub tenaciously clings to the edges of the highway, threatening to invade the red soil of cleared fields on either side, and the equally red dust of the unsealed road.
www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/victoria/mallee.asp   (458 words)

  
 Fremantle - mallee
Easy to look after, the Fremantle Mallee grows well in limestone soil and is simple to prune into shape after flowering from December to March.
Fremantle Mayor Peter Tagliaferri said the Fremantle Mallee was an apt choice of gift for new Australian citizens, given its intrinsic connection Fremantle’s early days – and integral in ensuring the species did not become extinct locally.
“While the Fremantle Mallee occurs from Yalgorup National Park to Lancelin they are limited to a few limestone hills along the coastline and, unfortunately, the species has become rare in the local area,” he said.
www.freofocus.com /news/html/mallee.cfm   (305 words)

  
 Mallee Division of General Practice
The Mallee Division of General Practice is located in the north western corner of Victoria and the lower south west of New South Wales.
Although recognized as a Victorian Division the Mallee Division of General Practice extends into the lower south western corner of NSW.
There are two major regional centres in the Mallee Division, Mildura and Swan Hill and between them that account for more than 50% of the GPs in the region.
www.malleedgp.com.au   (362 words)

  
 Red Mallee
Red mallee burl is arguably the most beautiful wood in the world.
As of Jan. 1, 04 we have been informed that the supply of red mallee burl caps on the east coast of Australia has been virtually exhausted.
This is an example of finished red mallee burl.
www.xmission.com /~burlturn/RedMallee/redmallee.htm   (457 words)

  
 Mallee Bearings & Transmission Supplies ~ Mildura, Victoria.
Mallee Bearings & Transmission Supplies ~ Mildura, Victoria.
Mallee Bearings has been supplying bearings, seals and power transmission products to customers in the Sunraysia district, south western NSW and north eastern Victoria for over 20 years.
Over these 20 years Mallee Bearings has continued to grow and thrive from the support of local people.
www.malleebearings.com.au /index.htm   (86 words)

  
 Mallee Cliffs National Park
Mallee Cliffs National Park is managed to protect the sand plain and sand dune land systems and ecological communities.
Emphasis is placed on the value of Mallee Cliffs National Park as a wildlife conservation area.
A policy of restricted public access for education purposes is maintained to assist in meeting conservation objectives.
www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au /parks.nsf/ParkContent/N0044?Opendocument&ParkKey=N0044&Type=Xo   (161 words)

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