Woodstock Regeneration Project

The Woodstock Regeneration Project is a Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) project located approximately 60km south-east of Bourke in the Far West region of New South Wales. Registered in September 2015, the project covers a substantial area of 11,953 hectares. The property is situated within the Bourke Shire Council area, a region traditionally dominated by extensive grazing of sheep and cattle on large rangeland stations.

Human-Induced Regeneration projects in this context involve allowing native forests to regenerate by removing suppression activities. For the Woodstock project, this primarily involves managing the timing and extent of grazing by livestock and humanely controlling feral animals (such as goats), which allows native vegetation, likely Mulga (Acacia aneura), Gidgee, or Coolibah woodlands, to regrow from in-situ seed sources and rootstock.

The environment in the Bourke and Brewarrina region is classified as semi-arid, typically receiving low annual rainfall of approximately 300–350mm. The landscape is generally flat to undulating, characterized by red earth and grey clay soils (Vertosols) common to the Cobar Peneplain and Darling Riverine Plains. Interestingly, public property records indicate that the "Woodstock" station was sold in September 2015, just weeks before the carbon project was registered, suggesting the acquisition may have been strategically timed to initiate the carbon farming enterprise.