While cattle grazing maintained the balds throughout the 19th-century, the forest slowly started reclaiming them after the formation of the national park in the 1930s.

But if cattle grazing is undertaken with other goals in mind, the range can maintain a diversity of habitats.

Sheep and cattle grazing was a common sight around the Barmah region from the mid to late 1800s.

On this new open landscape some cattle grazing is controlled by electric fences which are easily moved.

By 1900, cattle grazing was slowly giving way to a thriving fruit industry, known particularly for apples and pears.

Tourism and traditional cattle grazing have replaced the intensive agriculture as the primary economic use of the land.

Since cattle grazing ended soon after the First World War, the land has been used for recreational purposes.

Fencing to enable cattle grazing was started in December 2011.

Off-road vehicle traffic and cattle grazing have had serious impacts on wild populations.

Sheep and cattle grazing was the main industry; all the young folks tended flocks.