Talk:Mitchell River (Queensland)

message: Herwith, find progressively growing compilation of citations plus brief annotations compiled to assist possible, proposed expansion of this Mirchell River (Queensland) article:
====General====
*  Web page for the Mitchell River Watershed Management Group
::contains useful general information .. including some history of the Watershed Management Group itself which might be usefully included into this article. See particularly here  for history, land uses, fauna and flora, biophysical aspects, plus management issues for whole of Mitchell catchment .. including external links to maps (copyright still to be checked).
*  executive summary of Qld Department State of Rivers report:
This report relates to the streams of the Mitchell River drainage basin number 919, which includes the Upper Mitchell River, Palmer River, Walsh River, Lynd River, Alice River and Lower Mitchell
River. This represents an area of71 000 km2 with a length of major
stream of 15 425 km.
Within these streams the predominant land use was grazing in native forests, which was mostly Eucalypt open woodlands, Eucalypt woodlands, Eucalypt forest, Melaleuca forest and areas of grassland.
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*  Queensland Gov Wetland Info:
::This ref gives total area of the Mitchell River basin as 71,757.00 km² and includes details of the major towns, local government areas, bioregions, wetlands and wetlands within this basin .. plus links to some detailed information in relation to wetlands etc
*  image of extent of Mitchell River basin
*  Anthropologist Veronica Strang's (University of Auckland) webpage on Mitchell River, including photo's from along it's length plus some discussion of the kind of river landscape it is, and the extent to which it is 'humanised'
*  &  CSIRO info on Mitchell River .. including forest types and water catchment etc
====Aboriginal History====
*  Brief description of the Yir Yoront as having territory across Mitchell River mouths .. including some brief detail of traditions and 
contact history sourced from Lauriston Sharp
====Non-Aboriginal History====
*  Report of the History (since European settlement) and Cultural Heritage Values Of the Julatten-Mount Molloy-Mareeba Stockroute and Associated Reserves
====Flora and Fauna====
*  Description of Yellow freshwater turtles within Mitchell and Tributaries
*  Material from the Cape York Land Use Study identifying areas of conservation significance, including along Mithcell River .. particuarly terns, plus golden shouldered parrots etc
* Maps from CYPLUS including, more relevantly, map of significant wetlands ;
====Heritage Listings====
* National Estate listings within the Mitchell River catchment include  South Mitchell mouth little tern site; &  Wetlands and sandune system Mitchell River - Nassau River Area, Kowanyama Rutland Plains Rd
*  Map of areas in Cape York of conservation significance, includes Mitchell delta.
====Geomorphological Character/Classification====
*  Paper describes the geomorphological characteristics of the Mitchell River Basin/Catchment and river
*  CPLUS Map identifying Cape York landforms of conservation significance (old 'dune' system) .. see also National Heritage listing
====Water Use and Economics====
*  Advance Cairns Submission to Northern Taskforce, which reads in part as follows:
Mitchell River has the greatest discharge of all Queensland Rivers (11 998 GDL)
* 
Department of Natural Resources and Water Draft Mitchell water Resource Plan: Social and Economic Assessment. Accessed 37 January 2009 
====Settlement History====
*  Qld Dept of Natural Resources Place Name data:
Named by Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848?) naturalist and explorer, on 16 June 1845, after Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792-1855) NSW Surveyor-General 1828-55. Refer L. Leichhardt. Journal of an overland expedition from Moreton Bay to Port Essington. London, 1847, p.292. The Mitchell is probably the same river as that named by Jan Carstenz (1598?-16??) Dutch merchant and navigator in 1623 as Vereenighde River. Refer G.C. Ingleton. Matthew Flinders: navigator and chartmaker. Guilford (UK), 1986, p.209.
::Latitude: 15° 11′ S; Longitude: 141° 35′ E 
====Water Resource Planning====
*  Australian Conservation Foundation's submission to the draft Plan on water allocation planning for Mitchell River .. allocating water under State Water Act
*  Executive Summary of draft water resources plan for Mitchell River.  See also  Department's Consultation report
:: Contains some maps of the river system and basic information on waterflows etc
Bruceanthro (talk) 13:05, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Compiling Citations for Proposed Article Expansion 

message: *  Australian Conservation Foundation's submission to the draft Plan on water allocation planning for Mitchell River .. allocating water under State Water Act
*  Executive Summary of draft water resources plan for Mitchell River.  See also  Department's Consultation report
:: Contains some maps of the river system and basic information on waterflows etc
Bruceanthro (talk) 13:05, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Water Resource Planning

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