Mapping erodible soils in the Burdekin Dry Tropics grazing lands - BDSM

The Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts (DSITIA) mapped the soils across the Burdekin Dry Tropics for their inherent vulnerability to erosion in a project under the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection’s (EHP) Reef Water Quality (RWQ) program, Project RP63G.

Inherently vulnerable soils are soils prone to slaking and dispersion and when detached, have the potential to travel off-site and be transported to waterways. This project has developed a spatial dataset that maps;

• surface soil vulnerability
• subsoil vulnerability and
• overall inherent vulnerability to erosion (composite summary dataset).

An abridged version of this data set can be viewed using the [FORAGE online reporting system] (http://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/forage/) on The Long Paddock website.

This publication set contains the synthesis report for the project, which describes how the soils were mapped, and a user guide for the output datasets.

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