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A Cracking Start for Bluegums ~PARTMENT OF CONSERVA . MARCH-APRIL 1994 • Dryandra 's 1CO-year ' • Turtlenumbersrise • Nine-week-oldembryo vision-page2 -page4 kangaroosaved -page? • $2millionfor eucalyptus • Furseals breeding off oil project -page 3 Augusta-page5 • Newstaftfitness co-ordinator-page 7 • Pine bombing helps • The great Balzano research Wheelbarrow Race • lnventionfoolscrafty -page4 -page6 crows-page8 A cracking start for bluegums A RECORD 1.9 million tors of the Japanese parent seedlings will be planted companies, CALM staff this year in a single tree and farmers taking part in crop project in the Albany the project. region. Mr Court said that 25 The planting is the million blue gums would be second of a 10-year, $60 planted around Albany to million investment by the produce wood fibre for Albany Plantation Forest paper manufacture. Company of Australia Pty The seedlings would Ltd (APFL). come from CALM's APFL is a joint venture nursery at Manjimup. between the New Oji Paper "This is an excellent new Company, Itochu Corp­ cash crop for local oration and Senshukai landowners, which can be Company which have a integrated with traditional combined annual turnover farm production," he said. of $250 billion. Mr Minson said there The joint venturers have were also enormous envi­ appointed CALM to ronmental benefits to plant­ manage the project, which ing trees. is based on sharefarming "The whole region will with local landowners. benefit from the invest­ A formal ceremony to ment in infra-structure mark these new part­ required when the trees nerships was held at begin to be harvested at the Yerriminup Bluegum end of the 10-year planting Grove near Mt Barker late cycle," he said. last month. The ceremony "The· harvest will then included the traditional generate $50 million a year opening of a barrel of sake, in export income." to symbolise a new start. Premier Court said the Those attending in­ project represented many cluded Premier Richard important partnerships. Court, Environment Min­ "It has also shown that Left to right, Mr ltsuo Takada, Senshukai Company, Dr Syd Shea, Premier Richard Court, Environment Minister Kevin ister Kevin Minson, the we can integrate our eco­ Minson and Mr Toshiaki Fujii, Itochu Corporation, break the ceremonial sake barrel to signify the start of a new venture. Japanese Consul-General, nomic and environmental Photo courtesy The Australian Yoshihiro Imamura, direc- goals." LANDSCOPE Korean tree contract signed THE Department of takes gold Conservation and Land I by Caris Bailey I WESTERN Australia's conservation, forests and Management and one of wildlife magazine, LANDSCOPE, has won three Korea's leading forest has appointed CALM as its iold medals in Australia's most prestigious printing product companies, agents in a project to plant and design competition - the National Print Hansol Forest Products, 10,000 hectares of Awards. have signed a formal bluegums. LANDSCOPE is published by the Department agreement that will Hansol's investment of Conservation and Land Management and printed guarantee a $30 million will meet all costs of in Perth by Lamb Print and is the flagship for investment in a new planting, which will be Western Australia's nature conservation effort. industry for the Collie carried out over 10 years. "The gold medals for excellence in design and region. The planting will be done printing is a tribute to the team associated with the The 10-year agreement in partnership with local magazine's production at CALM and at Lamb," will mean record tree landowners under Environment Minister Kevin Minson said. planting in the Wellington CALM's sharefarming The medals follow the presentation of the Alex catchment area, where scheme. Harris Memorial Medal and high commendations previous land clearing has Environment Minister for excellence in environmental writing awarded to led to salinity problems. Kevin Minson said that rather than alienating ag­ contributors to the magazine last year. Export income CALM's 1994 calendar, also printed by Lamb, ricultural land to address was awarded a bronze medal. Once harvesting the land degradation prob­ This is the third year in a row in which begins, the pulp wood lems, Hansol and CALM , LANDSCOPE has won a national print award but produced will earn an would be working together it is the first time three editions of the magazine annual export income of with farmers. each have been awarded gold in the same year. $25 million. "The tree crop can be Mr Minson said it was CALM Executive Executive Director The awards, which attract about 1500 entries The agreement, signed integrated with traditional a credit to all involved that Director Syd Shea said Syd Shea and Director each year, are presented by the Advertising Print in Perth recently, replaces farming, providing an Western Australia had Western Australia had the of Hansol Australia Production Association, the Printing and Allied a short term contract extra source of income, as been able to build a new natural conditions and the Mr Lyu, sign the 10-year agreement. Trades Employers' Federation of Australia and reached last year between well as bringing enormous industry out of addressing management skills to Photo by Ernie the Graphic Arts Services Association of Australia. Hansol and CALM. environmental benefits," the area's land care produce some of the best­ Hansol Australia Pty Ltd he said. problems. wood fibre in the world. McClintock nnrIP 1 FROM MY DESK Dryandra's 100-year vision A 10-YEAR concept with a 100-year vision has been released for one of the Every day I receive a deluge of advertisements about State's most remarkable management books or invitations to management bushlands. seminars. I rarely take up the invitations or buy the lt is a draft manage­ books because frankly, I believe much of what has ment plan for the Dryan­ been written about management science is "faddish". dra woodland, a group of This deluge of management "science" is a consequence State forest blocks near of the fact that we are experiencing change at a rate Narrogin in Western Aus­ which we have never before seen. tralia's western wheatbelt. The woodland is an I do agree with the management gurus' proposition "archipelago" of 17 that "change is here to stay" and that organisations bushland islands sur­ which do not respond will become extinct. rounded by a "sea" of While I am sceptical of many of the new fads that have cleared farmland. It has a been proposed to deal with this change, one rich diversity of wildlife management theme that comes through constantly is and marks the eastern and the idea that our management systems must western distribution lim­ accommodate horizontal interactions within its for several higher rain­ organisations and between organisations. fall and wheatbelt plant Two of the ways that this can be achieved is by species. forming strategic alliances and networks within our It also is popular as an organisation and with external organisations. environmental education CALM, because of the diversity of skills we need to centre and almost 30 000 fulfil our charter and because of the big number of people visit the area each constituencies we have, can particularly benefit from year. strategic alliances and networking. Environment Minister While there are individuals and units within the Kevin Minson, along with CALM Narrogin staff at the release of the Dryandra draft management plan were John Edwards, Department with great talent, their firepower can be Wagin MLA and Emer­ Sharon Hann, new Narrogin district manager Tim Bowra and his wife Belinda. magnified ten-fold if we work together and exploit gency Services Minister the synergisms. Bob Wiese and Avon MLA small marsupials, part­ We already have some successful models of this type Max Trenorden, released icularly numbats and of management. I have often cited our safety program the draft plan earlier this woylies also show the as an example of what can be achieved by teamwork, month at a special function impact fox control has on horizontal communication and the dissolution of in the woodland. native animals. hierarchical barriers. The plan, prepared by Dryandra has more than More recently we have shown in Operation Foxglove CALM, outlines recom­ 8000 hectares of mallet and its related activities, the benefits oflinking different mendations that aim to plantations that were sown sections of the Department in a project. integrate nature con­ as far back as the 1920s to servation objectives with produce bark for the tannin The development of "Western Bluegums" is sustainable agriculture on industry and, more employing a range of skills right across the Department surrounding farmlands and recently, timber for fence and is achieving outstanding success. We also have the development of a posts and tool handles. been successful in promoting nature-based tourism nature-based tourism The woodland covers because we have formed strategic alliances with the industry. almost 28 000 ha of State private sector. Dryandra is the last re­ forest vested in the Lands Before anyone gets excited and propose that I am no maining sizeable area of and Forest Commission for longer necessary and the hierarchy can be abandoned, woodland in the western multiple use. I emphasise that CALM cannot abandon formal wheatbelt followingexten­ The draft plan recom­ management procedures or our structure. sive clearing for agricul­ mends much of the area be But the fact that we have to retain formal structures ture in the past 40 years. listed as national park with and work under precise laid down procedures does It represents the smaller isolated areas des­ Environment Minister Kevin Minson (left) had th e support of his parliamentary not prevent us at the same time exploiting the benefits transition from the jarrah ignated nature reserves. colleagues Bob Wiese, Member for Wagin, Bruce Donaldson, MLC and of a more free-wheeling style of management where forests of the Darling Range The mallet plantations Max Trenorden, Member for Avon, at the launch of the Dryandra draft it is appropriate.
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