Adelong Station Regeneration Project

Adelong Station Regeneration Project is a Human-Induced Regeneration project located on Adelong Station, approximately 21 kilometres west of Menzies and 130 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. It was registered in May 2018 and covers an expansive 86,021.71 hectares.

Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) projects involve establishing permanent, even-aged native forests through assisted regeneration on land where vegetation was previously cleared and regrowth suppressed for at least 10 years. This is typically achieved by ceasing or managing suppression activities, in this case, managing the timing and extent of livestock grazing. This allows native trees sprouting from in-situ seed sources, such as rootstock and lignotubers, to successfully regenerate and eventually reach standard forest requirements of at least 20% crown cover and two metres in height.

The Menzies area is primarily known for its history of gold mining and broadacre pastoral operations, focused heavily on sheep and cattle grazing. The region features a semi-arid climate characterized by low, variable rainfall. The local environmental profile typically consists of arid rangeland soils, such as red sandy dunes and clay loams, which support resilient vegetation systems including mulga woodlands, saltbush, bluebush, and hardy native grasses.

The property and project are stewarded by the Menzies Aboriginal Corporation, with carbon services facilitated by Select Carbon Pty Ltd. Under this Indigenous governance, the station balances commercial pastoralism with environmental conservation, actively managing large zones of the leasehold specifically for ecological protection. A government carbon abatement contract (CAC918036) tied to this project was successfully completed in January 2022, and the project area has undergone minor variations in May 2022 and October 2024 to remove specific land parcels from the carbon estimation area.