The Romance and the Realty, A Guide to Managing Queensland’s Stock Routes

Description

The Queensland stock route network has a long and rich history of supporting landholders. Today, it is mainly used for moving stock, pasture for emergency agistment and long-term grazing. The stock route network is also valued for its native flora and fauna and remnant vegetation, as well as for its Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural heritage. Stock routes contain major infrastructure for the transport of water, power and for communication. Stock routes include 72,000km of roads, reserves, and corridors on pastoral leases and unallocated state land. Together with dedicated reserves for travelling stock, they make up the 2.6 million hectare Queensland stock route network.