River Murray Forest - Lang Site (Revoked)

River Murray Forest - Lang Site (Revoked) was an environmental planting project located approximately 20km north-east of Renmark in the Riverland region of South Australia. Registered in September 2015, the project covered a 64.84-hectare area situated within the broader Murray-Darling Basin. The site's location places it near the Chowilla Game Reserve and the Victorian border, an area characterized by semi-arid conditions with annual rainfall typically between 250mm and 280mm. The landscape in this region is defined by dune fields and calcareous sandy loam soils, historically used for grazing or dryland agriculture before conservation efforts were introduced.

The project operated under the Carbon Farming (Quantifying Carbon Sequestration by Permanent Environmental Plantings of Native Tree Species using the CFI Reforestation Modelling Tool) Methodology Determination 2012. This methodology involves establishing permanent plantings of native tree species, such as local mallee and shrub varieties, on land that had been cleared of forest for at least five years. The primary goal is to sequester carbon dioxide in the growing biomass. As an environmental planting project, it would have been required to maintain a specific stocking density to ensure the potential for forest cover, using the Reforestation Modelling Tool (RMT) to calculate carbon abatement.

The "Lang Site" was part of the South Australian Government's "River Murray Forest" initiative, a large-scale program launched around 2008 by the Department for Environment and Water (formerly DEWNR). This initiative aimed to establish thousands of hectares of native vegetation along the river corridor to improve biodiversity, combat salinity, and sequester carbon. Notably, this specific project (ERF101835) was revoked on May 14, 2018, under Section 30 of the CFI Rule, which indicates a voluntary revocation by the proponent. It appears to be one of several "River Murray Forest" sites (including Lazaroff sites and Frahn sites) that were registered and subsequently revoked, potentially due to administrative consolidation or changes in the state's carbon management strategy.