Barrambie Station Regeneration Project

Barrambie Station Regeneration Project is a Human-Induced Regeneration project located at Barrambie Station, approximately 75km north-west of Sandstone and 120km south-east of Meekatharra in the Mid West region of Western Australia. It was registered in December 2020 and covers 87,744.57ha.

Human-Induced Regeneration (HIR) projects involve establishing permanent, even-aged native forests through assisted regeneration. The standard requirements for this methodology involve ceasing or significantly altering land management activities that suppress native vegetation regrowth. For this specific project, native forests are restored from in-situ seed sources, including rootstock and lignotubers, by carefully managing the timing and extent of livestock grazing on land where regrowth had been suppressed for at least 10 years.

The Sandstone area is predominantly known for large pastoral leases, historic mining operations, and increasingly, carbon farming. The local environment is considered semi-arid and experiences low, highly variable rainfall that is mostly driven by localised weather events. The station's soils are generally characterised by shallow sandy loams, clays, and red earths, featuring underlying Sandstone and significant calcrete aquifers.

This project is supported by the carbon project developer Select Carbon Pty Ltd. Interestingly, Barrambie Station has a rich pastoral history; it originally operated as a sheep station before later transitioning to droughtmaster cattle. Between 2004 and 2019, the property was virtually destocked, which naturally aided the early stages of vegetation recovery prior to the project's official registration. Following a variation in August 2021 that reduced the project area, the primary participant's name was also updated from Mark Clancy Taylor to Allison Gaye Taylor in June 2025. Additionally, the property has a unique gold rush history from 1905, when a worker building the state's rabbit-proof fence near Barrambie discovered gold, briefly transforming the area into a bustling mining camp.