Windsor Station Regeneration Project

Windsor Station Regeneration Project is a Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) project located approximately 80 kilometres east of Mount Magnet in the mid-west Murchison region of Western Australia. It was registered in May 2018 and covers a project area of 95,403 hectares.

Human-Induced Regeneration projects involve establishing permanent native forests by changing land management practices to encourage natural regrowth on land where it was previously suppressed for at least 10 years. In this project, the primary activity is managing the timing and extent of livestock grazing to allow native seed sources, rootstock, and lignotubers to regenerate into an even-aged native forest.

The Murchison region is traditionally known for extensive pastoral activities, including cattle, sheep, and goat grazing, as well as gold mining. The area experiences a semi-arid to arid climate with low annual rainfall, typically averaging around 200mm. The soils generally consist of red shallow loams and red sandy earth over hardpan, set amongst a landscape of rugged breakaways, granite outcrops, and saltbush or spinifex plains. The native vegetation is predominantly low mulga woodlands.

An interesting note about this project is that the underlying property, Windsor Station, was recently offered for sale via expressions of interest in late 2024. The sale highlighted the property's vermin-proof fencing, solar-equipped bores, and the strong cash flow generated by this carbon project, which had produced over 83,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) since its registration. Additionally, the project area underwent administrative variations in August 2020 and March 2022 to remove certain parcels of land from the overall project boundaries. The proponent, Corey Folezzani, is also actively involved in regional conservation as a committee member of the Meekatharra Rangelands Biosecurity Association.