Английская Википедия:Bulga Downs Station

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Bulga Downs Station is a pastoral lease that once operated as a sheep station but is now a cattle station located in the Mid West region of Western Australia.

It is situated approximately Шаблон:Convert to the south west of Leinster and Шаблон:Convert south east of Mount Magnet.[1]

Bulga Downs consists primarily of sand-plain country with outcrops of granite and ironstone. It receives an annual average rainfall of Шаблон:Convert. The trees and shrubs found in the area include mulga, sugar-brother, bowgada, mallee gums, saltbush and bluebush. Prominent grasses include broadleaf and narrowleaf wanderrie, kerosene grass, wind grass and white top granite grass.[2]

The property was owned in 1921 by W. Baumberger,[3] who sold it in 1923 to Messrs. Morrison and Calder. The Шаблон:Convert station was only partially improved at the time and was only carrying 1,500 sheep and some cattle.[4] It was also experiencing problems with wild dogs attacking the stock.[5]

In 1925 a total of 23,238 sheep were shorn at Bulga Downs.[6] By 1928 the size of the flock had dropped to 4,879.[7]

The McQuie family acquired the Шаблон:Convert property in 1984 and converted the station from grazing sheep to Angus cattle during the 1990s due to dingo problems. The last shearing was conducted in 2000 or 2001. J McQuie 2021.[2]

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