KINGOONYA DISTRICT PROFILE: Characteristics4 and challenges1,2 ABOUT THE KINGOONYA DISTRICT South Australian Arid Lands NRM region The Kingoonya District covers an area of Marla approximately 80,000 Oodnadatta square kilometres Algebuckina Innamincka Moomba Marree-Innamincka (nearly 8% of South Marla-Oodnadatta Australia and is bound Anna Creek by the Dog Fence to the Coober Pedy north and west and salt Coward Springs Curdimurka lakes to the south and Marree east. Kingoonya Arkaroola Village Andamooka Tarcoola Roxby Downs Leigh Creek Kingoonya Glendambo North Flinders Ranges Woomera Parachilna COMMUNITIES The population in this district is over Hawker 5,000 people, with most residents associated with the mining industry. Legend Gawler Ranges North East Olary Townships include Roxby Downs, Port Augusta Waterways and Lakes Iron Knob Woomera, Pimba, Andamooka, Yunta National Parks and Reserves Iron Baron Glendambo, Kingoonya and Tarcoola. Whyalla Dog Fence CLIMATE The climate is hot and dry with a cool, VEGETATION Uplands with scrubland & shrublands: short winter. Rainfall is highly variable saltbush, samphire, sea heath, neverfail, with average annual totals ranging from Sandplains with woodlands: mulga, Mitchell grass, daisies, mulga, turkey 150mm in the northeast to around 200mm woollybutt, bandicoot grass, pearl bush, emu bush, cassias, western myall, in the south-west. There is no apparent bluebush, bladder saltbush. cottonbush, goosefoot, poverty bush. seasonality of rainfall. Evaporation rates are Sand dunes: mulga, bullock bush, tar high, ranging from 2800mm in the south- bush, bandicoot grass, woollybutt, red west to 3200 mm in the north. mallee, northern cypress pine, umbrella WATER bush, black oak, western myall, saltbush, There is very limited naturally occurring LAND FORMS bluebush, grasses, spear grass, wattle, permanent water in the district. Water pigface, turkey bush, emu bush, fuschia supplies for stock, industrial and domestic The land forms within this region include bush, neverfail, lovegrass. purposes are sourced from local ground sand plains, woodlands, sand dunes, gibber water, the Great Artesian Basin, local Drainage with claypans, salt lakes flats, drainage systems, salt lakes and surface water stored in dams, natural & dunes: cypress pine, mulga, spear uplands. ephemeral waters or from outside of the grass, lignum, bluebush, pigface, dead district. Large drainage systems exist and finish, bullock bush, broombush, saltbush, can hold water for several years but are woollybutt, samphire, canegrass, unreliable. Groundwater is very variable in glassworts, hopbush, nitre bush. quality and quantity but still significant. Drainage with floodplains & creeks: saltbush, bluebush, cottonbush, swamp GET INVOLVED canegrass, coolibah, boree tea tree, LAND USE AND INDUSTRY For more information about natural umbrella bush, hopbush, dead finish, The main type of land use within the resources management activities Broughton willow, nitre bush, glassworts. district is sheep production, with some in the SA Arid Lands, visit: cattle production. Other land use includes The Natural Resources Centre Plains: bluebush, saltbush, mulga, grasses, Level 1, 9 Mackay St, Port Augusta western myall, mulga, black oak, spiny uranium and gold mining, defence www.naturalresources.sa.gov.au/aridlands goosefoot, Australian boxthorn, kerosene industry operations, tourism and private or phone 8648 5300 grass, canegrass, samphire, Mitchell grass, conservation reserves. There are no neverfail. government managed conservation areas in this district. Priority issues identified by the KINGOONYA COMMUNITY 1,2 1,2 water & wind erosion1,2 1 defence activities 2 water point management1 increasing labour costs2 weeds 1,2 2 total grazing pressure (including native species, eg kangaroo) 1,2 tourism impacts mining & exploration impacts1,2 wild fires feralISSUES animals1,2 particularly wild dog, rabbit, fox and cat2 Activities delivered in the SA Arid Lands KINGOONYA DISTRICT activities 2010-133 NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS OVERALL • 89% properties participated in at least one natural resources management activity3 7001 people % OF PROPERTIES (PUBLIC AND PRIVATE) • 80% properties participated in pest animal management across 7,600 hectares (including PARTICIPATING IN AT LEAST ONE ACTIVITY wild dog, rabbit)3 84% • 17% properties participated in weed management covering 502,486 hectares 3 NUMBER OF TRAINING/AWARENESS (including mesquite, opuntia) RAISING EVENTS • 7% properties participated in landscape-scale integrated property planning3 324 • Water affecting activities permit policy • Small incentive grants to subsidise the NUMBER OF VOLUNTEER HOURS cost of pest, weed and soil management • Aquatic ecosystem condition monitoring 22,426 • Incentives available for young people • Flora and fauna monitoring NUMBER OF ACROSS THE OUTBACK for natural resources management SUBSCRIBERS • White fly monitoring and research participation 1,400 • Western myall tree protection • Advice on mining and exploration issues NUMBER OF WEBSITE VISITORS • Buffel grass Action Group • Improved road condition management 14,184 • Visitor management infrastructure • Portable weed spray unit supplied for installed district land managers 2 Reported through SA Arid Lands NRM • Tourism information products developed Board-sponsored surveys: Strategic Planning for District NRM Groups (surveys undertaken mid to • District-scale strategic weed late 2012). 2 Ehrenberg-Bass Natural Resource Management management planning Participation, Knowledge & Skills in the SAAL Region (interviews with pastoral landholders • Biteback undertaken in mid to late 2012). 3 Extracted from activities database held by SA Arid Lands Natural Resources Management Board, 2010-2013. 4 Extracted from Kingoonya Soil Conservation Board District Plan, 2002..