Pine Creek Station Reforestation Project

Pine Creek Station Reforestation Project is an environmental and mallee planting project located at Pine Creek Station, 40km south-west of Capella in Central Queensland. It was registered in May 2026 and covers 6,235.90 ha.

Environmental and mallee planting projects involve establishing permanent plantings of native trees, typically at a density of at least 200 stems per ha, to ensure the site eventually achieves forest cover.

The Capella region is highly regarded for cattle farming, specifically backgrounding and fattening, as well as broadacre cropping. The area experiences 550mm to 600mm of average annual rainfall, and soils are generally productive brigalow scrub soils alongside deep, self-mulching black cracking clays (vertosols) over basalt.

This project establishes permanent plantings of a mix of native tree and shrub species that reflect the structure and composition of the local native vegetation community. The project appears to be a strategic move to integrate carbon farming with high-value agricultural assets, following the sale of the Pine Creek Station property in late 2025 for over $20 million to a New South Wales-based agri-investment company. The proponent, Brigalow Climate Pty Ltd, is a private company based in NSW that was registered shortly before the property acquisition.