AISSailor Jack Station
Forest, granite and open pasture on the Queensland–New South Wales border.
Sailor Jack is a working cattle station in the Granite Belt. It's mostly forest and rugged granite country, with around 100 hectares of cleared land, two houses, a workshop and a shearing shed.
Riding on the sheep's back
Sailor Jack was once home to Frostbite Trading Co. and its merino flock, back when wool was king. Today the station runs cattle, and the paddocks have been newly fenced and subdivided.
Next comes the AIS energy project: putting the forest, the sun and the soil to work together, so the station can sustain itself.
Donnybrook & Remington
We also hold leases over 2,800 hectares of forest at Donnybrook and Remington, all of it timber country.
We're permitted to harvest trees there responsibly. Together with Sailor Jack's own forest, the leases give the project a large biomass supply that renews itself, with about 4,500 hectares of country in all.
Managed well, this country will store more carbon over time. Biochar returned to the soil locks carbon away for centuries. It also makes the soil healthier, holding water and nutrients and giving young trees a stronger start. Sustainable harvesting, replanting and grazing keep the forest and pasture growing strongly.
Bullwinkle
Every station needs a captain. Bullwinkle keeps an eye (just the one) on the paddocks, guards the anchor and makes sure the kangaroos stay out of the wheat. Now and then a flying squirrel drops in from the gums, but the two of them go way back.
Life at Sailor Jack
