- Title
- Balancing heritage and environmental conservation management of small homestead leases in a remote pastoral landscape
- Creator
- Westbrooke, Samantha; Westbrooke, Martin
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/161735
- Identifier
- vital:12592
- Identifier
- ISBN:0726-6715
- Abstract
- Whilst the history and significance of the large pastoral holdings from Australia's early history (such as Kinchega and Yanga in western New South Wales, NSW) are generally well understood, recognition of important examples from later phases, following the break-up of these large holdings into small family blocks, is often neglected. Using the example of Nanya Station, with five other homestead leases established in the 1920s, in the Scotia region of western NSW, this paper provides an overview of the changes in legislation that led to the establishment of small homestead leases and highlights the important role that the latter have played in our pastoral heritage. In 2004, the University of Ballarat purchased Nanya Station for the establishment of a centre for conservation, teaching and research. Over the past 25 years many pastoral properties (large and small) in the Australian rangelands have come under conservation management by state conservation agencies and increasingly into privately owned and managed reserves. In this paper, the challenges of addressing the conflict of retaining the pastoral landscape, buildings and other infrastructure elements under these conservation management arrangements in a remote former pastoral site are explored with particular reference to Nanya Station. Issues considered include removal of pastoral heritage elements such as ground tanks and fences to achieve environmental conservation objectives and retention of buildings which will also meet current community standards and health and safety concerns associated with visitation.
- Publisher
- Council for the Historic Environment
- Relation
- Historic Environment Vol. 28, no. 1 (2016), p. 58-68
- Rights
- Copyright
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1201 Architecture; 2101 Archaeology; 2103 Historical Studies; Conservation Of Natural Resources--Management; Historic Sites--Management; Historic Sites--Environmental Aspects; Surveying; Historic Sites--Conservation And Restoration
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