Abstract:
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The Swan Valley is an important agricultural, recreational, tourist and heritage area in which there are a number of competing land uses because of its location close to Perth. The traditional agricultural use, mainly centred around the viticulture industry, has to compete with tourist development, urban encroachment, hobby farms and clay extraction. A land capability study was done using the existing soil series map of the Swan Valley. The map units were assessed for 11 land qualities which were then rel
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