Pre Conference Tour: Soils in the landscape –managing soils for agriculture and the environment in Tasmania
Tasmania – the holiday island and home of the Tasmanian devil - where the tour will combine seeing a wide range of soil and water management issues with travelling through the World Heritage Area, sampling of our high quality food and breathing the cleanest air in the world. The tour will be led by local soil and water scientists who work in agriculture and land rehabilitation. The tour will end in Hobart in time for the conference welcome BBQ.
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Itinerary Overview
Day 1 – Wednesday 28th November
Meet at 6.30 pm prior to the start of the tour for briefing & tour notes.
Overnight in Launceston.
Day 2 – Thursday 29th November
Starting in Launceston, the tour will travel to Tasmania's northern Midlands to look at intensification of agricultural use on Sodosols with problems of salinity, drainage and structural decline. Travel to the northern Tamar Valley for expanding viticultural production on Kurosols and understand terroir influences on local wines.
Overnight in Devonport.
Day 3 – Friday 30th November
Travel through the rolling north-west hinterland to look at intensive vegetable cropping, erosion control 
techniques and effects of erosion on crop yields on the rich red Ferrosols. Inspect a climo-sequence of Ferrosols developed on basalt. Look at issues of slumping landscapes, farm dams and intensive dairy farming. A visit to a wild life park to see Tassie devils, tiger snakes and a Wedgetail Eagle.
Overnight in Burnie.
Day 4 – Saturday 1st December
Breathe the cleanest air in the world in the far northwest of Tasmania. Inspect Hydrosols under intensive
dairy production with high nutrient generation rates into local waterways. Travel to the wild west coast to view coastal dune erosion and Organosol exposure plus the impacts of mining on hillslopes.
Overnight in Strahan.
Day 5 – Sunday 2nd December
Travell through the World Heritage area with great scenery and
visit Lake Echo where peat is harvested for whiskey production. View the ‘The Wall in the Wilderness’ wood sculpture at Derwent Bridge.
The tour ends in Hobart in the early afternoon at the Wrest Point Hotel in time for the conference welcome BBQ.
Accommodation after the tour on Day 5 is not included.