Qualla: Lochern National Park https://qualla.com/lochern-national-park en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/t/y/lochern-national-park-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Lochern National Park https://qualla.com/lochern-national-park Lochern National Park: Introduction https://qualla.com/lochern-national-park/ Photo credit Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. When the rains come to western Queensland, the Thomson River does not behave like a river. It spreads. The water leaves its main channel and fans out across the floodplain in a maze of braided channels, filling lagoons and waterholes and turning grey-brown plains briefly, gloriously green. Lochern National Park sits in the middle of this annual transformation, on the Thomson floodplain some 140 kilometers southwest of Longreach. Across 24,300 hectares of Channel Country, it protects something increasingly rare: a stretch of this boom-and-bust landscape left to run on its own ancient rhythm.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/t/y/lochern-national-park-wp/r5ty-lochern-national-park-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lochern National Park: Reading the Seasons https://qualla.com/lochern-national-park/ Photo credit Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. This is country that swings between extremes, and the people who knew it best learned to swing with it. For the Aboriginal people of the region, the diverse climate of Lochern was not a hardship but a resource - they learned to use the dry spells and the wet, adapting to the seas...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/t/y/lochern-national-park-wp/r5ty-lochern-national-park-reading-the-seasons.mp3 0:06 2 full Lochern National Park: The Mitchell Grass Country https://qualla.com/lochern-national-park/ Photo credit Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. Lochern protects an undisturbed cross-section of the Mitchell Grass Downs, and it does so completely - the park is home to all four species of Mitchell grass, the tough tussock grasses that have fed both native wildlife and grazing stock across inland Australia. This is the silve...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/t/y/lochern-national-park-wp/r5ty-lochern-national-park-the-mitchell-grass-country.mp3 0:06 3 full Lochern National Park: Where the Water Gathers https://qualla.com/lochern-national-park/ Photo credit Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. The eastern parts of the park are laced with the channels of the Thomson, and it is here that Lochern comes alive. Several lagoons and waterholes hold water long after the surrounding plains have dried, becoming vital refuges for birds and other wildlife in a thirsty landscape. M...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/t/y/lochern-national-park-wp/r5ty-lochern-national-park-where-the-water-gathers.mp3 0:06 4 full Lochern National Park: From Run to Refuge https://qualla.com/lochern-national-park/ Photo credit Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. Lochern was a grazing property before it was a park - one of a series of western Queensland stations that the state acquired and converted to conservation. It was established as a national park in 1994 and later enlarged, in 2004 and again in 2008, growing into the reserve it is ...

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