Land management: Most units stable except valley floor slopes and drainage floors (units 6 & 7) which are susceptible to degradation and erosion if vegetation is removed by preferential overgrazing or other disturbance. Image of Highly dissected country of the Bohemia land system cutting into the sandy plains and dunes of the Camelgooda land system to the south. Width of this 2007 aerial photograph is about 5.5km. Photo: Landgate Aerial oblique photograph showing the summit remnants, breakaways, slopes below breakaways and valley floors. Photo: Berkeley Fitzhardinge (alias Yaruman5, Flickr.com) Stylised block diagram showing location of land units for the Bohemia land system (numbers on diagram represent land units in table below). Unit 8, missing from original, has been added Table of Bohemia land system land units. * Numbers in brackets refer to soil family – or vegetation community/alliance in on lands of the West Kimberley ‘General report area, (Speck et al. 1970); + Pasture types described in Appendix 1. Note: WA’ Proportions and occurrence of pasture types within land units are subject to change over time due to invasion by native and introduced species, seasonal conditions, fire frequency and grazing management. Approx. Pasture Unit area Landforms Soils* Vegetation* type+ (%) Spinifex grassland Summit Red sands of and very open remnants: up to variable depth woodland. Triodia 800m wide; 1 9 on laterite: intermedia HSPP sandy Cockatoo community (57) and slopes, less than family (7). Eucalyptus brevifolia 1%. alliance (1a, 2). Stripped surfaces Laterite and and marginal pallid-zone breakaways: up to remnants, 1.6km wide, stony some outcrops slopes up to 5%, 2 17 of bedrock and As for unit 1. HSHP with frequent some deep red laterite exposures sands: and with marginal Cockatoo breakaways up to family (7). 6m high. Much outcrop Slopes below with some Much bare ground. breakaways: shallow reddish Low open woodland concave, up to 5% sands high in with Triodia and up to 800m 3 7 HSHP laterite intermedia. long; dissected up fragments: E. brevifolia alliance to 6m into narrow Yabbagoddy (1a, 2); locally 1c. rounded spurs with family (1). marginal slopes
Land management: Most units stable except valley floor slopes and drainage floors (units 6 & 7) which are susceptible to degradation and erosion if vegetation is removed by preferential overgrazing or other disturbance. Image of Highly dissected country of the Bohemia land system cutting into the sandy plains and dunes of the Camelgooda land system to the south. Width of this 2007 aerial photograph is about 5.5km. Photo: Landgate Aerial oblique photograph showing the summit remnants, breakaways, slopes below breakaways and valley floors. Photo: Berkeley Fitzhardinge (alias Yaruman5, Flickr.com) Stylised block diagram showing location of land units for the Bohemia land system (numbers on diagram represent land units in table below). Unit 8, missing from original, has been added Table of Bohemia land system – land units. * Numbers in brackets refer to soil family or vegetation community/alliance in ‘General report on lands of the West Kimberley area, WA’ (Speck et al. 1970); + Pasture types described in Appendix 1. Note: Proportions and occurrence of pasture types within land units are subject to change over time due to invasion by native and introduced species, seasonal conditions, fire frequency and grazing management. Unit Approx. area (%) Landforms Soils* Vegetation* Pasture type+ 1 9 Summit remnants: up to 800m wide; sandy slopes, less than 1%. Red sands of variable depth on laterite: Cockatoo family (7). Spinifex grassland and very open woodland. Triodia intermedia community (57) and Eucalyptus brevifolia alliance (1a, 2). HSPP 2 17 Stripped surfaces and marginal breakaways: up to 1.6km wide, stony slopes up to 5%, with frequent laterite exposures and with marginal breakaways up to 6m high. Laterite and pallid-zone remnants, some outcrops of bedrock and some deep red sands: Cockatoo family (7). As for unit 1. HSHP 3 7 Slopes below breakaways: concave, up to 5% and up to 800m long; dissected up to 6m into narrow rounded spurs with marginal slopes Much outcrop with some shallow reddish sands high in laterite fragments: Yabbagoddy family (1). Much bare ground. Low open woodland with Triodia intermedia. E. brevifolia alliance (1a, 2); locally 1c. HSHP