Pulling brigalow scrub with chain and hiball, and rotary slasher in brigalow suckers, 1964. From R.W. Johnson, 'The ecology and control of Brigalow', 1964, Plate 24 and 60

Brigalow suckered country near Tara, reclaimed by burning off and stocking with five sheep to the hectare in the late 1930s. Note the water-filled melonholes. Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Plate IXb

15-20 year old suckers being axed at Hannaford, 1939, Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Plate VIIIa, 1939 

In Burning off, Dorothea MacKellar, author of My country, celebrates the destruction of native bushland as a ‘great and old’ tree becomes ‘A red-hot column whence fly the sparks,

Clearing scrub, Babinda, c1925. From Queensland illustrated 70 exquisite views, c1925. Collection of John Young

Collection of John Young

Scrub clearing by burning, Malanda, 1918. From Tablelands of North Queensland, Queensland Government Intelligence and Tourist Bureau, 1918. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Injune district near 'Fairview' property, clear-felled mixed brigalow and cypress-pine woodland using a ball-and-chain dragline, 1986. Slide by Patrick Conaghan, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Patrick Conaghan and Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, 2010

Trees are found in most Queensland landscapes.

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