The TGB Osborn Vegetation Reserve at Koonamore is the longest-running vegetation monitoring site of its kind in Australia – and site data is now readily available to researchers.
The site has not been grazed by sheep for over 50 years, and has been rabbit-free for over 40 yrs – so there is a wealth of information likely to be of interest to people studying the life-span and regeneration of plants, microphytic soil crusts, plant genetics, and even water and carbon-dioxide fluxes.
RFA has previously supported the reserve with a small grant to aid fence maintenance.
For more information, see the paper in The Rangeland Journal by Sinclair & Facelli.