Australia

[tian]

According to page 411 of Jared Diamond's Collapse, "In inland parts of
South Australia where the government owns land fit for pastoralism they*
lease it to farmers on 42 year leases."
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*Not exactly what they said but that part is there plus other stuff.

[Nemo Maelstrom Thorx]

Hmm, cool :)

Historically, seems to be this:
http://www.naa.gov.au/naaresources/publications/research_guides/nt-guide/chapter9/9.2.html

And this is current... (see page 6 of the PDF (labelled page 1) for
a note about the dingo fence, page 7 (2) for the Tenure provisions which
notes the 42 year rolling lease...

and page 10 (5) for a map :)
http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/074f1d59-dd35-4d3e-8140-9f5900c71464/kb-gen-BDBSA-sapastoralfieldmanual.pdf

And naturally, a few photos of the sort of area it is, throughout the
doc :)

.../Nemo



On 06 Sep (a Thursday in 2012) around 0129 hours, tian did utter:

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