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A drover in Australia is a person, typically an experienced stockman, who takes cattle over long distances, usually during a drought or season change in search of green pastures on which the cattle can feed. Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ... Australian Stockmans Hall of Fame ( a museum in Longreach, Queensland, Australia ) A stockman is the name given to a person who looks after the livestock on a station. ... A drought is a period of time when there is not enough water to support agricultural, urban or environmental water needs. ... Pastureland Pasture is land with lush herbaceous vegetation cover used for grazing of ungulates as part of a farm or ranch. ...

Droving was extremely popular in the Kosciuszko National Park and Alpine National Park and High Plains areas, until the areas became National Parks. The Drovers would often bring cattle from the lower pastures to the fresh green pastures for the summer months. During the summer months many of the drovers would often stay in mountain huts like Daveys Hut, Whites River Hut and Mawsons Hut. Kosciuszko is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 354 km southwest of Sydney. ... Alpine is a national park in Victoria (Australia), northeast of Melbourne. ... The High Plains of South-Eastern Australia are a region, or rather a string of adjacent areas, in and adjacent to the Great Dividing Range which were used for summer grazing since the 1830s in some cases. ... Daveys Hut was built by Tom Bolton in 1909 for grazing. ... Whites River Hut is one of the more famous Huts in the Kosciuszko National Park. ... Looking across everlastings on Mt Hotham to Mt Feathertop; during winter these mountains are blanketed in snow The Australian Alps The Australian Alps are the highest mountain ranges of mainland Australia. ...

Droving life is described in the poem Clancy of the Overflow and depicted in the historical film The Overlanders. Clancy of The Overflow is a poem by Banjo Paterson, first published in The Bulletin, an Australian news magazine, on December 21, 1889. ... The Overlanders is a 1946 Australian movie about drovers droving a large herd of cattle 1600 miles overland from the Northern Territory outback of Australia to pastures north of Brisbane, Queensland during World War II. Among the cast members was Chips Rafferty. ...