Cover

Contents

List of contributors

Image credits

Prologue: a continental perspective

Welcome to Iningai country

Part 1: Place

1 Arriving in the Desert Channels country

2 Alice Duncan-Kemp (Pinningarra) and the history of the frontier

3 Connecting with our land

4 Pituri country

Interlude I

Landscape studies 2007: environmental projects and the impulse to conserve

Part 2: Landscape

5 The story of our land revealed through plants

6 Mystery and marvel: the invertebrate animal world

7 Channel country rivers: the pulse of life

8 Artesian springs

Interlude II

Landscape studies 2008: aesthetic evaluation as an environmental tool

Part 3: Biodiversity

9 Mammals and birds: life on the move

10 Reptiles, amphibians and fish: going with the flow

11 Dragons, diprotodons, dinosaurs and dust:150 million years of Desert Channels prehistory

12 Creating a herbarium for Cravens Peak

Interlude III

Landscape studies 2009: painting in place

Part 4: Livelihood

13 Conserving desert Australian livelihoods

14 The forum is a campfire, the river is a story

15 Production lands, philanthropy and biodiversity

16 Conservation science: here and beyond

Interlude IV

Listening to the land: Encounter documentary of zebra finchesat Ocean Bore (go to www.publish.csiro.au/desertchannels)

Further reading

Index