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Bush Heritage News Autumn 2002 Management at Liffey River & Drys Bluff A Bequest - a special gift Thank you New members ACN 053 639 115 www.bushheritage.org Molly O’Neill was a committed Bush A special thank you to some of our young of the team Heritage supporter. She started donating supporters, particularly the students of In this issue Nathan Males manages the on-ground effort across the landscape, placing baited Rick Farley has recently soon after Bush Heritage began. Recently Ivanhoe Grammar School in Melbourne Chereninup Creek works and volunteer participation on traps in 100m grids, would permanently joined the Board of Bush she gave her largest gift. It was a gift that and Rhys Humphry. Rhys saved his Bush Heritage reserves remove them. If wasps cannot be Heritage. He is the former Management at Liffey River and Drys Bluff exemplified her lifelong commitment pocket money for a donation to help realistically controlled it is interesting Executive Director of the Erith Island Every five years, the management plans to understanding and nurturing the protect the habitat of his friends, the snakes. to reflect on what might be an acceptable National Farmers’ Federation Bequests of Bush Heritage reserves are reviewed environment and her desire to see this level of management. Margaret Ross and Jean Hadges gave and has been a member of the National and overhauled.The outcomes of the work continue after her death.This gift donations to celebrate the marriage of two Native Title Tribunal, the Australian past management actions provide feed Bush Heritage reserves are either actual was a bequest, but it will not be her last Bush Heritage supporters, Jamie Pittock Landcare Council, the National Council back into the review process and guide or conceptual islands in the matrix of contribution. Molly O’Neill’s generosity and Cath Webb. Congratulations to for Aboriginal Reconciliation, the Australia future management and new initiatives the wider landscape and are subject to will continue to provide encouragement Carrie Sonneborn and Arron Arntzen China Council and the Commission for in the schedule of works. all kinds of pressures from outside the and financial support for Bush Heritage’s on the birth of Solomon which they the Future. Rick now chairs a number boundaries. Deciding how best to work for years to come. The management plans for Drys Bluff protect the values of the reserves from commemorated ‘for a greener future for of Government committees and is an and Liffey River Reserves, located close external pressures is difficult. You too, may like to consider a gift to Solomon and all our children’. Birthdays Ambassador for Reconciliation. together in northern Tasmania, have were celebrated with gifts from Stephen Bush Heritage in your will. It’s a way to Kalina Koloff joins the recently undergone this process. Should we undertake extensive feral Anich for David’s 50th and from Janet continue helping Australia’s unique flora development staff at the baiting, trapping or hunting programs? and fauna beyond your lifetime. For a Mayer for Trudy Lynch’s 30th. Through the review we looked at each Should we erect feral animal proof Sydney office. Kalina worked Special thanks go to Jeremy Price who copy of our bequest brochure, which management action, ticked some off fencing? Should we remove all the Louise Coghill gave in memory of her for two years as the fund- contributed both botanical and practical includes a recommended wording, the list as complete and noted progress weeds or just some? How much of it father-in-law, Don Coghill, 1919-2000 raising coordinator for Amnesty conservation management knowledge just ring 1800 677 101. For detailed made on others. However, it is can we afford? If we start a program, and Judith Worthy in memory of Ruth International and recently, as a fundraising and has since been in the Hobart office enquiries please phone Roewen Wishart interesting to reflect on two management how will we continue it for the long and Jim Morrell, her mother and consultant in the United Kingdom. on 02 9290 8512. actions that haven’t been attempted. term? Do we have to accept that assisting with the publication of the stepfather. Vicki Davey,‘the poet who reserves may never be ‘pristine’? revised management plans.We have loved the bush’, was commemorated Volunteer Rangers, One called for the opportunistic removal Molly O’Neill PHOTO COURTESY: DIANA MORAN included an excerpt from his reflection by her friend Christobel Mattingley. of kookaburra nests and the other for To avoid lengthy navel gazing we have on the week in the Liffey valley. Carnarvon Station GEOLOGY during the Eocene epoch some 54 - 38 the removal of European wasps and their decided to adopt a practical approach - Don Taylor was remembered by many ‘The cabin sat amidst Arcadian splendour, Reserve Chereninup Creek It is estimated that our new reserve million years ago. nests. Both of these species are introduced doing what we can with the limited friends and by his partner, Molly the Crags of the Great Western Tiers will support up to 500 plant species. to Tasmania and appear to have a negative resources.This means working to alleviate Crawford ‘for the past eight happy years. Escape the rat race! Take a month off Erosion over millions of years has cut down looming majestically, though quite – a new reserve One reason for this remarkable species impact on the local reptiles and other the threats to those ecosystems or species He was a “gentle gentleman” who loved and become a volunteer ranger at the through the coastal sediments into the ominously in the background.The velvet diversity is that the new reserve lies insects, respectively. with the highest conservation values trees and the Australian bush’. magnificent, remote Carnarvon Station ancient granites of the Yilgarn block, green of lush pastures a mark of a more Bush Heritage’s Phil Cullen reports on on the interzone between two ancient and stretching the tight budget as far as Reserve.With a vehicle, accommodation creating a relatively deep valley in the The reasons that I haven’t attempted these settled era and the ceaseless flow of water the new reserve landforms, the Yilgarn block and the it will go with the help of volunteers. World Expeditions is offering a 21-day and training, if necessary, you can run undulating plain.The Chereninup Creek seemingly worthwhile jobs are two fold. occasionally accompanied by wind Esperence coastal plain.The Yilgarn Nepal trek to Bush Heritage supporters your own conservation project while Chereninup Creek bushland will be now flows down one of these eroded Firstly, the opportunity hasn’t arisen. A recent example of this has been the through the trees a pleasant sound if ever block is one of the oldest blocks of at cost price. Contact World Expeditions restoring your sanity. the next Bush Heritage purchase. channels as a series of permanent pools Secondly, I intuitively felt that the use of Greencorp teams in the two there was one.The valley of Liffey was continental crust to be found anywhere on 1300 720 000 or check the Bush This outstanding 877 ha property lies and granite cascades. Higher on the valley occasional destruction of an individual Tasmanian reserves. Once again braving the silent though something was building Contact Nathan Males on 03 6223 in the world and is thus a foundation Heritage website at www.bushheritage.org between the Fitzgerald River National slopes, ancient sediments protrude as low nest would not deliver a worthwhile rain, they have done great work against far west, it allowed its presence to be felt 2670 or [email protected] stone of the Australian continent. Park and the Stirling Range National breakaways at the edge of sandy plains. conservation benefit for the effort required. the foxgloves in the rainforest valleys of on the winds ... and the land waited, ✂ Park, 140 km north-east of Albany By contrast, the Esperence plain is a These landforms now support a wide both Drys Bluff and Liffey River Reserves. anxious for its tidings. Return to: Australian Bush Heritage Fund, Reply Paid 101, Hobart TAS 7001 Dr Steven Mellick, from Tasmanian For a week, a team of Bush Heritage buying back Freecall: 1800 677 101 Fax: (03) 6223 2680 Email: [email protected] Website: www.bushheritage.org in WA (see map). relatively recent geological feature made range of soils, and thus vegetation types. Parks and Wildlife Service, agreed that friends and supporters volunteered And then the rain came…’ Office address: 2 Kelly Street Battery Point TAS 7004 Phone: (03) 6223 2670 up of continental shelf sediments that It represents a fantastic opportunity for Above: Granite cascades on the Chereninup Creek. opportunistic removal of European wasp alongside the Greencorp teams, giving the bush Australian Bush Heritage Fund is a company limited by guarantee ABN 78 053 639 115 were laid down in the ocean along the Bush Heritage supporters to contribute Below: Sediments of the Esperance plain form breakaways, nests would not deliver a long-term specialist advice, assisting with other From top right: Pulling foxgloves at Liffey reserve, southern edge of the Yilgarn block now topped with Blue Mallee PHOTOS: BARBARA MADDEN solution. His recent studies found that weed control and documenting the Olearia sp. I wish to join the Friends of the Bush and give a tax-deductible monthly donation. to conservation at many levels. wasps recolonise an area in the season progress with photos.The wasps and Tree fern gully at Liffey River Reserve. Fencing with the The property will protect part of a Greencorp team at Drys Bluff, Drys Bluff forest. Please deduct monthly donations of $ from the credit card below until further notice global ‘hotspot’ for biodiversity where following removal and only a constant kookaburras remain. PHOTOS: IAN WILLIAMS Please deduct monthly donations of $ from my bank account by Direct Debit. (ABHF will forward an authority form) plant genera such as Banksia, Grevillea, Dryandra,Verticordia, Acacia and I would rather give a single, tax-deductible donation of: $30 $50 $100 $500 Other $ Eucalyptus achieve maximum species I am paying by: Cheque/Money Order Bankcard Mastercard Visa Diners Club American Express richness. 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Office use only AUT02 WESTERN AUSTRALIA vegetation between the temperate forest The Tasmanian Government’s decision wilderness around Walpole in south-west From the CEO in late 2001 to provide National Park Erith Island Western Australia through the Stirling status for the entire Kent Group of Range and Fitzgerald River National Parks Thank you for your generous support islands in Bass Strait, including over our As mentioned in the CEO's comments, and on to the rangelands in the Norseman of our appeal to raise funds to acquire Erith Island Reserve, caused us mixed the Tasmanian Government has declared region. From there, native vegetation and manage a new reserve in south-west emotions.We were pleased to have been a National Park over Erith Island and the extends all the way to the Gulf and Cape Western Australia. I am delighted to a catalyst for National Park protection entire Kent Group of islands in Bass Strait. York, the Top End in the Northern report that we have selected an for the whole island group but sorry to Territory and the Kimberley in north- outstanding property, featured in this be relinquishing the lease on this fine Prior to 1996, when Bush Heritage western Western Australia.‘Gondwana newsletter.This new acquisition will reserve. Over the last five years we have purchased the lease, Erith was grazed and Link’ will involve the cooperation of increase the number of significant developed a close working relationship faced threats from weed infestation. In many community groups and government ecosystems protected by Bush Heritage with the groups and individuals the last six years Bush Heritage has been departments at all levels. It will require by 20%, an indication of the very high involved with Erith and especially the conducting flora and fauna surveys, eradicating weeds and introduced animals VEGETATION COMMUNITIES conservation concern. Such species HABITAT CORRIDORS the reservation of many existing bushland biodiversity of the land.As I write we ‘Erith Mob’.We thank them for their and improving the infrastructure and So far we know of at least 12 major include the malleefowl (nationally In a world where native bushland, whether remnants and replanting of considerable are finalising the terms of the sale. support and encouragement of our amenity of the Island.This has elevated plant communities on the property. vulnerable), the western whipbird (near it be large national parks or small bushland areas to recreate vital habitat. It is a project work. Details of the changes concerning With this and subsequent acquisitions the Island’s importance for conservation. They include woodlands of York Gum, threatened), the tammar wallaby and the remnants, is rapidly being reduced to for the long term that will require an Erith follow. we are enforcing the discipline of Yate and Granite Sheoak in the drainage western brushtail possum (both of isolated patches, there is increasing ongoing commitment from participants. raising funds for the land, and its Earth Sanctuaries Limited has The whole island group will now be lines, dense thickets of Blue Mallee which are of conservation significance). awareness of the need to provide corridors The new reserve at Chereninup Creek is estimated management costs, at the experienced well-publicised difficulties. managed under a comprehensive National that cloak the breakaway country, Suitable habitat exists for the chuditch of native habitat which link these patches one of the first links in the chain in time of purchase. Currently, we are also This is unfortunate news and we share Park management plan coordinated by and elements of the Kwongan heath - or western quoll (nationally vulnerable), together. Habitat corridors can provide achieving this most important national building additional funds for the future founder John Wamsley’s disappointment. Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service. bizarre shrub lands of Dryandras and the southern dibbler (endangered), and vital opportunities for species to migrate goal.The value of the reserve will thus protection of all our existing reserves. The company and/or its assets are for Bush Heritage has handed its recently Banksias - on the sandy plains. Four the crested bellbird (near threatened) all from one ‘reserve’ to another.This has a extend far beyond its physical boundaries. In this way we will not over-extend sale and we are assessing individual completed Plan of Management for of these woodlands have been almost of which live in nearby bushland.There two-fold benefit. Populations of relatively Erith Island to the Minister and urged Our current endeavours in Western ourselves with consecutive property properties that may fit with our reserve eliminated from the Western Australian is the potential for up to 14 small to rare species become more robust to the Government to adopt the goal of Australia would not have been possible purchases. selection criteria. I must reiterate our wheat belt. medium-sized native mammal species to catastrophic events such as large wild fires maintaining stewardship of Erith Island without the help, generosity,and hard work confidence that Bush Heritage’s future be recorded on the property. or disease outbreaks, and there is an Increasing the Friends of the Bush, (and the Kent Group) in perpetuity, These plant communities occur within of the following people: Margi Weir and is secure. Our growth and development opportunity for genetic exchange between who provide regular support for both as Bush Heritage intended.We will a mosaic of other native vegetation 'Stinger' Ray, the Horwitz family, Keith are being underpinned by securing and From top left: Morning light on the leaves of tallerack, populations that would otherwise exist acquisition and conservation management be urging the Government to make types rather than as isolated stands in Euc. tetragona, Banksia caleyi. PHOTOS: BARBARA MADDEN Bradby, Nathan McQuiod, Denise True, investing funds for future land in isolation. activities, is particularly important to available the resources required to otherwise desolate fields of wheat. As Honey possum, western pygmy possum, tammar Chris Robinson, Steve Newby, Lesley management. wallaby, chuditch (western quoll), malleefowl, dibbler. achieve these goals. In 2001 the number continue our level of care. such the contribution that they make PHOTOS: JIRI LOCHMAN/LOCHMAN TRANSPARENCIES The new reserve at Chereninup Creek is Thomas, Ben Carr and many others in the of ‘Friends’ increased by 20%, mainly We welcome Rick Farley to the Board. to conservation is far greater than if Opposite page, from top right: Eucalypt trunks sport a critical part of a visionary project known Western Australian 'conservation community'. from existing supporters either beginning Known to many for his role with the We are now negotiating the terms of they existed in isolation.The number vibrant colours, granite honey myrtle, bronzewing pigeon as the ‘Gondwana Link’.‘Gondwana Link’ Thank you for all your help with this great nest, lichen on broombush,, common net-bush, everlastings or increasing regular contributions. National Farmers’ Federation and relinquishment of the lease including and variety of animals and plants that beneath sheoak woodland. PHOTOS: BARBARA MADDEN aims to recreate a corridor of native conservation project. It has been great fun. a financial adjustment for the unexpired they support, and the lack of weeds Thank you. National Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Rick has brought with portion.Any such adjustment will be attests to this.With such an abundance To strengthen these efforts, a concerted added to the endowment for management of plants the wildflower displays are very him a new set of skills and experience campaign to build our supporter base which are particularly valuable as we of our four other Tasmanian reserves. spectacular, and a significant number are and increase our profile in the community likely to be undescribed scientifically. develop our capacity to acquire larger Bush Heritage believes that, with National has begun. In the next few months you properties. With this number of plant species and may see specially trained recruitment Park status being established, it is in the communities on a relatively small area, teams working on our behalf in some I wish you all a happy and productive interests of the long-term management this new reserve will be the most capital cities. new year. of the Kent Group, that the State assume diverse of all of the Bush Heritage control of all the islands.We will be sorry reserves to date. not to have this fine reserve under our care and thank all the people involved with the WILDLIFE island who have supported our work there. The Chereninup Creek Reserve will Invitation to provide protection for a wide suite of native fauna, some of which is of Sydneysiders PHOTO: JOSS BENTLEY

Supporters and friends of Bush Heritage are invited for drinks and a short presentation on current Bush Heritage activities at a private home in Randwick, Sydney, on Friday 22 March at 6.30 pm. You are welcome to bring friends who may be interested. For details please ring Kalina Koloff on 02 9290 8548. WESTERN AUSTRALIA vegetation between the temperate forest The Tasmanian Government’s decision wilderness around Walpole in south-west From the CEO in late 2001 to provide National Park Erith Island Western Australia through the Stirling status for the entire Kent Group of Range and Fitzgerald River National Parks Thank you for your generous support islands in Bass Strait, including over our As mentioned in the CEO's comments, and on to the rangelands in the Norseman of our appeal to raise funds to acquire Erith Island Reserve, caused us mixed the Tasmanian Government has declared region. From there, native vegetation and manage a new reserve in south-west emotions.We were pleased to have been a National Park over Erith Island and the extends all the way to the Gulf and Cape Western Australia. I am delighted to a catalyst for National Park protection entire Kent Group of islands in Bass Strait. York, the Top End in the Northern report that we have selected an for the whole island group but sorry to Territory and the Kimberley in north- outstanding property, featured in this be relinquishing the lease on this fine Prior to 1996, when Bush Heritage western Western Australia.‘Gondwana newsletter.This new acquisition will reserve. Over the last five years we have purchased the lease, Erith was grazed and Link’ will involve the cooperation of increase the number of significant developed a close working relationship faced threats from weed infestation. In many community groups and government ecosystems protected by Bush Heritage with the groups and individuals the last six years Bush Heritage has been departments at all levels. It will require by 20%, an indication of the very high involved with Erith and especially the conducting flora and fauna surveys, eradicating weeds and introduced animals VEGETATION COMMUNITIES conservation concern. Such species HABITAT CORRIDORS the reservation of many existing bushland biodiversity of the land.As I write we ‘Erith Mob’.We thank them for their and improving the infrastructure and So far we know of at least 12 major include the malleefowl (nationally In a world where native bushland, whether remnants and replanting of considerable are finalising the terms of the sale. support and encouragement of our amenity of the Island.This has elevated plant communities on the property. vulnerable), the western whipbird (near it be large national parks or small bushland areas to recreate vital habitat. It is a project work. Details of the changes concerning With this and subsequent acquisitions the Island’s importance for conservation. They include woodlands of York Gum, threatened), the tammar wallaby and the remnants, is rapidly being reduced to for the long term that will require an Erith follow. we are enforcing the discipline of Yate and Granite Sheoak in the drainage western brushtail possum (both of isolated patches, there is increasing ongoing commitment from participants. raising funds for the land, and its Earth Sanctuaries Limited has The whole island group will now be lines, dense thickets of Blue Mallee which are of conservation significance). awareness of the need to provide corridors The new reserve at Chereninup Creek is estimated management costs, at the experienced well-publicised difficulties. managed under a comprehensive National that cloak the breakaway country, Suitable habitat exists for the chuditch of native habitat which link these patches one of the first links in the chain in time of purchase. Currently, we are also This is unfortunate news and we share Park management plan coordinated by and elements of the Kwongan heath - or western quoll (nationally vulnerable), together. Habitat corridors can provide achieving this most important national building additional funds for the future founder John Wamsley’s disappointment. Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service. bizarre shrub lands of Dryandras and the southern dibbler (endangered), and vital opportunities for species to migrate goal.The value of the reserve will thus protection of all our existing reserves. The company and/or its assets are for Bush Heritage has handed its recently Banksias - on the sandy plains. Four the crested bellbird (near threatened) all from one ‘reserve’ to another.This has a extend far beyond its physical boundaries. In this way we will not over-extend sale and we are assessing individual completed Plan of Management for of these woodlands have been almost of which live in nearby bushland.There two-fold benefit. Populations of relatively Erith Island to the Minister and urged Our current endeavours in Western ourselves with consecutive property properties that may fit with our reserve eliminated from the Western Australian is the potential for up to 14 small to rare species become more robust to the Government to adopt the goal of Australia would not have been possible purchases. selection criteria. I must reiterate our wheat belt. medium-sized native mammal species to catastrophic events such as large wild fires maintaining stewardship of Erith Island without the help, generosity,and hard work confidence that Bush Heritage’s future be recorded on the property. or disease outbreaks, and there is an Increasing the Friends of the Bush, (and the Kent Group) in perpetuity, These plant communities occur within of the following people: Margi Weir and is secure. Our growth and development opportunity for genetic exchange between who provide regular support for both as Bush Heritage intended.We will a mosaic of other native vegetation 'Stinger' Ray, the Horwitz family, Keith are being underpinned by securing and From top left: Morning light on the leaves of tallerack, populations that would otherwise exist acquisition and conservation management be urging the Government to make types rather than as isolated stands in Euc. tetragona, Banksia caleyi. PHOTOS: BARBARA MADDEN Bradby, Nathan McQuiod, Denise True, investing funds for future land in isolation. activities, is particularly important to available the resources required to otherwise desolate fields of wheat. As Honey possum, western pygmy possum, tammar Chris Robinson, Steve Newby, Lesley management. wallaby, chuditch (western quoll), malleefowl, dibbler. achieve these goals. In 2001 the number continue our level of care. such the contribution that they make PHOTOS: JIRI LOCHMAN/LOCHMAN TRANSPARENCIES The new reserve at Chereninup Creek is Thomas, Ben Carr and many others in the of ‘Friends’ increased by 20%, mainly We welcome Rick Farley to the Board. to conservation is far greater than if Opposite page, from top right: Eucalypt trunks sport a critical part of a visionary project known Western Australian 'conservation community'. from existing supporters either beginning Known to many for his role with the We are now negotiating the terms of they existed in isolation.The number vibrant colours, granite honey myrtle, bronzewing pigeon as the ‘Gondwana Link’.‘Gondwana Link’ Thank you for all your help with this great nest, lichen on broombush,, common net-bush, everlastings or increasing regular contributions. National Farmers’ Federation and relinquishment of the lease including and variety of animals and plants that beneath sheoak woodland. PHOTOS: BARBARA MADDEN aims to recreate a corridor of native conservation project. It has been great fun. a financial adjustment for the unexpired they support, and the lack of weeds Thank you. National Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Rick has brought with portion.Any such adjustment will be attests to this.With such an abundance To strengthen these efforts, a concerted added to the endowment for management of plants the wildflower displays are very him a new set of skills and experience campaign to build our supporter base which are particularly valuable as we of our four other Tasmanian reserves. spectacular, and a significant number are and increase our profile in the community likely to be undescribed scientifically. develop our capacity to acquire larger Bush Heritage believes that, with National has begun. In the next few months you properties. With this number of plant species and may see specially trained recruitment Park status being established, it is in the communities on a relatively small area, teams working on our behalf in some I wish you all a happy and productive interests of the long-term management this new reserve will be the most capital cities. new year. of the Kent Group, that the State assume diverse of all of the Bush Heritage control of all the islands.We will be sorry reserves to date. not to have this fine reserve under our care and thank all the people involved with the WILDLIFE island who have supported our work there. The Chereninup Creek Reserve will Invitation to provide protection for a wide suite of native fauna, some of which is of Sydneysiders PHOTO: JOSS BENTLEY

Supporters and friends of Bush Heritage are invited for drinks and a short presentation on current Bush Heritage activities at a private home in Randwick, Sydney, on Friday 22 March at 6.30 pm. You are welcome to bring friends who may be interested. For details please ring Kalina Koloff on 02 9290 8548. Bush Heritage News Autumn 2002 Management at Liffey River & Drys Bluff A Bequest - a special gift Thank you New members ACN 053 639 115 www.bushheritage.org Molly O’Neill was a committed Bush A special thank you to some of our young of the team Heritage supporter. She started donating supporters, particularly the students of In this issue Nathan Males manages the on-ground effort across the landscape, placing baited Rick Farley has recently soon after Bush Heritage began. Recently Ivanhoe Grammar School in Melbourne Chereninup Creek works and volunteer participation on traps in 100m grids, would permanently joined the Board of Bush she gave her largest gift. It was a gift that and Rhys Humphry. Rhys saved his Bush Heritage reserves remove them. If wasps cannot be Heritage. He is the former Management at Liffey River and Drys Bluff exemplified her lifelong commitment pocket money for a donation to help realistically controlled it is interesting Executive Director of the Erith Island Every five years, the management plans to understanding and nurturing the protect the habitat of his friends, the snakes. to reflect on what might be an acceptable National Farmers’ Federation Bequests of Bush Heritage reserves are reviewed environment and her desire to see this level of management. Margaret Ross and Jean Hadges gave and has been a member of the National and overhauled.The outcomes of the work continue after her death.This gift donations to celebrate the marriage of two Native Title Tribunal, the Australian past management actions provide feed Bush Heritage reserves are either actual was a bequest, but it will not be her last Bush Heritage supporters, Jamie Pittock Landcare Council, the National Council back into the review process and guide or conceptual islands in the matrix of contribution. Molly O’Neill’s generosity and Cath Webb. Congratulations to for Aboriginal Reconciliation, the Australia future management and new initiatives the wider landscape and are subject to will continue to provide encouragement Carrie Sonneborn and Arron Arntzen China Council and the Commission for in the schedule of works. all kinds of pressures from outside the and financial support for Bush Heritage’s on the birth of Solomon which they the Future. Rick now chairs a number boundaries. Deciding how best to work for years to come. The management plans for Drys Bluff protect the values of the reserves from commemorated ‘for a greener future for of Government committees and is an and Liffey River Reserves, located close external pressures is difficult. You too, may like to consider a gift to Solomon and all our children’. Birthdays Ambassador for Reconciliation. together in northern Tasmania, have were celebrated with gifts from Stephen Bush Heritage in your will. It’s a way to Kalina Koloff joins the recently undergone this process. Should we undertake extensive feral Anich for David’s 50th and from Janet continue helping Australia’s unique flora development staff at the baiting, trapping or hunting programs? and fauna beyond your lifetime. For a Mayer for Trudy Lynch’s 30th. Through the review we looked at each Should we erect feral animal proof Sydney office. Kalina worked Special thanks go to Jeremy Price who copy of our bequest brochure, which management action, ticked some off fencing? Should we remove all the Louise Coghill gave in memory of her for two years as the fund- contributed both botanical and practical includes a recommended wording, the list as complete and noted progress weeds or just some? How much of it father-in-law, Don Coghill, 1919-2000 raising coordinator for Amnesty conservation management knowledge just ring 1800 677 101. For detailed made on others. However, it is can we afford? If we start a program, and Judith Worthy in memory of Ruth International and recently, as a fundraising and has since been in the Hobart office enquiries please phone Roewen Wishart interesting to reflect on two management how will we continue it for the long and Jim Morrell, her mother and consultant in the United Kingdom. on 02 9290 8512. actions that haven’t been attempted. term? Do we have to accept that assisting with the publication of the stepfather. Vicki Davey,‘the poet who reserves may never be ‘pristine’? revised management plans.We have loved the bush’, was commemorated Volunteer Rangers, One called for the opportunistic removal Molly O’Neill PHOTO COURTESY: DIANA MORAN included an excerpt from his reflection by her friend Christobel Mattingley. of kookaburra nests and the other for To avoid lengthy navel gazing we have on the week in the Liffey valley. Carnarvon Station GEOLOGY during the Eocene epoch some 54 - 38 the removal of European wasps and their decided to adopt a practical approach - Don Taylor was remembered by many ‘The cabin sat amidst Arcadian splendour, Reserve Chereninup Creek It is estimated that our new reserve million years ago. nests. Both of these species are introduced doing what we can with the limited friends and by his partner, Molly the Crags of the Great Western Tiers will support up to 500 plant species. to Tasmania and appear to have a negative resources.This means working to alleviate Crawford ‘for the past eight happy years. Escape the rat race! Take a month off Erosion over millions of years has cut down looming majestically, though quite – a new reserve One reason for this remarkable species impact on the local reptiles and other the threats to those ecosystems or species He was a “gentle gentleman” who loved and become a volunteer ranger at the through the coastal sediments into the ominously in the background.The velvet diversity is that the new reserve lies insects, respectively. with the highest conservation values trees and the Australian bush’. magnificent, remote Carnarvon Station ancient granites of the Yilgarn block, green of lush pastures a mark of a more Bush Heritage’s Phil Cullen reports on on the interzone between two ancient and stretching the tight budget as far as Reserve.With a vehicle, accommodation creating a relatively deep valley in the The reasons that I haven’t attempted these settled era and the ceaseless flow of water the new reserve landforms, the Yilgarn block and the it will go with the help of volunteers. World Expeditions is offering a 21-day and training, if necessary, you can run undulating plain.The Chereninup Creek seemingly worthwhile jobs are two fold. occasionally accompanied by wind Esperence coastal plain.The Yilgarn Nepal trek to Bush Heritage supporters your own conservation project while Chereninup Creek bushland will be now flows down one of these eroded Firstly, the opportunity hasn’t arisen. A recent example of this has been the through the trees a pleasant sound if ever block is one of the oldest blocks of at cost price. Contact World Expeditions restoring your sanity. the next Bush Heritage purchase. channels as a series of permanent pools Secondly, I intuitively felt that the use of Greencorp teams in the two there was one.The valley of Liffey was continental crust to be found anywhere on 1300 720 000 or check the Bush This outstanding 877 ha property lies and granite cascades. Higher on the valley occasional destruction of an individual Tasmanian reserves. Once again braving the silent though something was building Contact Nathan Males on 03 6223 in the world and is thus a foundation Heritage website at www.bushheritage.org between the Fitzgerald River National slopes, ancient sediments protrude as low nest would not deliver a worthwhile rain, they have done great work against far west, it allowed its presence to be felt 2670 or [email protected] stone of the Australian continent. Park and the Stirling Range National breakaways at the edge of sandy plains. conservation benefit for the effort required. the foxgloves in the rainforest valleys of on the winds ... and the land waited, ✂ Park, 140 km north-east of Albany By contrast, the Esperence plain is a These landforms now support a wide both Drys Bluff and Liffey River Reserves. anxious for its tidings. Return to: Australian Bush Heritage Fund, Reply Paid 101, Hobart TAS 7001 Dr Steven Mellick, from Tasmanian For a week, a team of Bush Heritage buying back Freecall: 1800 677 101 Fax: (03) 6223 2680 Email: [email protected] Website: www.bushheritage.org in WA (see map). relatively recent geological feature made range of soils, and thus vegetation types. Parks and Wildlife Service, agreed that friends and supporters volunteered And then the rain came…’ Office address: 2 Kelly Street Battery Point TAS 7004 Phone: (03) 6223 2670 up of continental shelf sediments that It represents a fantastic opportunity for Above: Granite cascades on the Chereninup Creek. opportunistic removal of European wasp alongside the Greencorp teams, giving the bush Australian Bush Heritage Fund is a company limited by guarantee ABN 78 053 639 115 were laid down in the ocean along the Bush Heritage supporters to contribute Below: Sediments of the Esperance plain form breakaways, nests would not deliver a long-term specialist advice, assisting with other From top right: Pulling foxgloves at Liffey reserve, southern edge of the Yilgarn block now topped with Blue Mallee PHOTOS: BARBARA MADDEN solution. His recent studies found that weed control and documenting the Olearia sp. I wish to join the Friends of the Bush and give a tax-deductible monthly donation. to conservation at many levels. wasps recolonise an area in the season progress with photos.The wasps and Tree fern gully at Liffey River Reserve. Fencing with the The property will protect part of a Greencorp team at Drys Bluff, Drys Bluff forest. Please deduct monthly donations of $ from the credit card below until further notice global ‘hotspot’ for biodiversity where following removal and only a constant kookaburras remain. PHOTOS: IAN WILLIAMS Please deduct monthly donations of $ from my bank account by Direct Debit. (ABHF will forward an authority form) plant genera such as Banksia, Grevillea, Dryandra,Verticordia, Acacia and I would rather give a single, tax-deductible donation of: $30 $50 $100 $500 Other $ Eucalyptus achieve maximum species I am paying by: Cheque/Money Order Bankcard Mastercard Visa Diners Club American Express richness. It will protect vulnerable and endangered species and plant Card number: / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / Expiry date: / / / / communities. It will assist the Card holder’s name: Card holder’s signature: amalgamation of two existing nature reserves and contribute to a conservation Please send me information on making a bequest Please send me (qty) counter packs (30 leaflets and stand) to distribute locally project of national significance. Name (Please print) Dr/Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss

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Supporters and friends of Bush Heritage are invited for drinks and a short presentation on current Bush Heritage activities at a private home in Randwick, Sydney, on Friday 22 March at 6.30 pm. You are welcome to bring friends who may be interested. For details please ring Kalina Koloff on 02 9290 8548. Bush Heritage News Autumn 2002 Management at Liffey River & Drys Bluff A Bequest - a special gift Thank you New members ACN 053 639 115 www.bushheritage.org Molly O’Neill was a committed Bush A special thank you to some of our young of the team Heritage supporter. She started donating supporters, particularly the students of In this issue Nathan Males manages the on-ground effort across the landscape, placing baited Rick Farley has recently soon after Bush Heritage began. Recently Ivanhoe Grammar School in Melbourne Chereninup Creek works and volunteer participation on traps in 100m grids, would permanently joined the Board of Bush she gave her largest gift. It was a gift that and Rhys Humphry. Rhys saved his Bush Heritage reserves remove them. If wasps cannot be Heritage. He is the former Management at Liffey River and Drys Bluff exemplified her lifelong commitment pocket money for a donation to help realistically controlled it is interesting Executive Director of the Erith Island Every five years, the management plans to understanding and nurturing the protect the habitat of his friends, the snakes. to reflect on what might be an acceptable National Farmers’ Federation Bequests of Bush Heritage reserves are reviewed environment and her desire to see this level of management. Margaret Ross and Jean Hadges gave and has been a member of the National and overhauled.The outcomes of the work continue after her death.This gift donations to celebrate the marriage of two Native Title Tribunal, the Australian past management actions provide feed Bush Heritage reserves are either actual was a bequest, but it will not be her last Bush Heritage supporters, Jamie Pittock Landcare Council, the National Council back into the review process and guide or conceptual islands in the matrix of contribution. Molly O’Neill’s generosity and Cath Webb. Congratulations to for Aboriginal Reconciliation, the Australia future management and new initiatives the wider landscape and are subject to will continue to provide encouragement Carrie Sonneborn and Arron Arntzen China Council and the Commission for in the schedule of works. all kinds of pressures from outside the and financial support for Bush Heritage’s on the birth of Solomon which they the Future. Rick now chairs a number boundaries. Deciding how best to work for years to come. The management plans for Drys Bluff protect the values of the reserves from commemorated ‘for a greener future for of Government committees and is an and Liffey River Reserves, located close external pressures is difficult. You too, may like to consider a gift to Solomon and all our children’. Birthdays Ambassador for Reconciliation. together in northern Tasmania, have were celebrated with gifts from Stephen Bush Heritage in your will. It’s a way to Kalina Koloff joins the recently undergone this process. Should we undertake extensive feral Anich for David’s 50th and from Janet continue helping Australia’s unique flora development staff at the baiting, trapping or hunting programs? and fauna beyond your lifetime. For a Mayer for Trudy Lynch’s 30th. Through the review we looked at each Should we erect feral animal proof Sydney office. Kalina worked Special thanks go to Jeremy Price who copy of our bequest brochure, which management action, ticked some off fencing? Should we remove all the Louise Coghill gave in memory of her for two years as the fund- contributed both botanical and practical includes a recommended wording, the list as complete and noted progress weeds or just some? How much of it father-in-law, Don Coghill, 1919-2000 raising coordinator for Amnesty conservation management knowledge just ring 1800 677 101. For detailed made on others. However, it is can we afford? If we start a program, and Judith Worthy in memory of Ruth International and recently, as a fundraising and has since been in the Hobart office enquiries please phone Roewen Wishart interesting to reflect on two management how will we continue it for the long and Jim Morrell, her mother and consultant in the United Kingdom. on 02 9290 8512. actions that haven’t been attempted. term? Do we have to accept that assisting with the publication of the stepfather. Vicki Davey,‘the poet who reserves may never be ‘pristine’? revised management plans.We have loved the bush’, was commemorated Volunteer Rangers, One called for the opportunistic removal Molly O’Neill PHOTO COURTESY: DIANA MORAN included an excerpt from his reflection by her friend Christobel Mattingley. of kookaburra nests and the other for To avoid lengthy navel gazing we have on the week in the Liffey valley. Carnarvon Station GEOLOGY during the Eocene epoch some 54 - 38 the removal of European wasps and their decided to adopt a practical approach - Don Taylor was remembered by many ‘The cabin sat amidst Arcadian splendour, Reserve Chereninup Creek It is estimated that our new reserve million years ago. nests. Both of these species are introduced doing what we can with the limited friends and by his partner, Molly the Crags of the Great Western Tiers will support up to 500 plant species. to Tasmania and appear to have a negative resources.This means working to alleviate Crawford ‘for the past eight happy years. Escape the rat race! Take a month off Erosion over millions of years has cut down looming majestically, though quite – a new reserve One reason for this remarkable species impact on the local reptiles and other the threats to those ecosystems or species He was a “gentle gentleman” who loved and become a volunteer ranger at the through the coastal sediments into the ominously in the background.The velvet diversity is that the new reserve lies insects, respectively. with the highest conservation values trees and the Australian bush’. magnificent, remote Carnarvon Station ancient granites of the Yilgarn block, green of lush pastures a mark of a more Bush Heritage’s Phil Cullen reports on on the interzone between two ancient and stretching the tight budget as far as Reserve.With a vehicle, accommodation creating a relatively deep valley in the The reasons that I haven’t attempted these settled era and the ceaseless flow of water the new reserve landforms, the Yilgarn block and the it will go with the help of volunteers. World Expeditions is offering a 21-day and training, if necessary, you can run undulating plain.The Chereninup Creek seemingly worthwhile jobs are two fold. occasionally accompanied by wind Esperence coastal plain.The Yilgarn Nepal trek to Bush Heritage supporters your own conservation project while Chereninup Creek bushland will be now flows down one of these eroded Firstly, the opportunity hasn’t arisen. A recent example of this has been the through the trees a pleasant sound if ever block is one of the oldest blocks of at cost price. Contact World Expeditions restoring your sanity. the next Bush Heritage purchase. channels as a series of permanent pools Secondly, I intuitively felt that the use of Greencorp teams in the two there was one.The valley of Liffey was continental crust to be found anywhere on 1300 720 000 or check the Bush This outstanding 877 ha property lies and granite cascades. Higher on the valley occasional destruction of an individual Tasmanian reserves. Once again braving the silent though something was building Contact Nathan Males on 03 6223 in the world and is thus a foundation Heritage website at www.bushheritage.org between the Fitzgerald River National slopes, ancient sediments protrude as low nest would not deliver a worthwhile rain, they have done great work against far west, it allowed its presence to be felt 2670 or [email protected] stone of the Australian continent. Park and the Stirling Range National breakaways at the edge of sandy plains. conservation benefit for the effort required. the foxgloves in the rainforest valleys of on the winds ... and the land waited, ✂ Park, 140 km north-east of Albany By contrast, the Esperence plain is a These landforms now support a wide both Drys Bluff and Liffey River Reserves. anxious for its tidings. Return to: Australian Bush Heritage Fund, Reply Paid 101, Hobart TAS 7001 Dr Steven Mellick, from Tasmanian For a week, a team of Bush Heritage buying back Freecall: 1800 677 101 Fax: (03) 6223 2680 Email: [email protected] Website: www.bushheritage.org in WA (see map). relatively recent geological feature made range of soils, and thus vegetation types. Parks and Wildlife Service, agreed that friends and supporters volunteered And then the rain came…’ Office address: 2 Kelly Street Battery Point TAS 7004 Phone: (03) 6223 2670 up of continental shelf sediments that It represents a fantastic opportunity for Above: Granite cascades on the Chereninup Creek. opportunistic removal of European wasp alongside the Greencorp teams, giving the bush Australian Bush Heritage Fund is a company limited by guarantee ABN 78 053 639 115 were laid down in the ocean along the Bush Heritage supporters to contribute Below: Sediments of the Esperance plain form breakaways, nests would not deliver a long-term specialist advice, assisting with other From top right: Pulling foxgloves at Liffey reserve, southern edge of the Yilgarn block now topped with Blue Mallee PHOTOS: BARBARA MADDEN solution. His recent studies found that weed control and documenting the Olearia sp. I wish to join the Friends of the Bush and give a tax-deductible monthly donation. to conservation at many levels. wasps recolonise an area in the season progress with photos.The wasps and Tree fern gully at Liffey River Reserve. Fencing with the The property will protect part of a Greencorp team at Drys Bluff, Drys Bluff forest. Please deduct monthly donations of $ from the credit card below until further notice global ‘hotspot’ for biodiversity where following removal and only a constant kookaburras remain. PHOTOS: IAN WILLIAMS Please deduct monthly donations of $ from my bank account by Direct Debit. (ABHF will forward an authority form) plant genera such as Banksia, Grevillea, Dryandra,Verticordia, Acacia and I would rather give a single, tax-deductible donation of: $30 $50 $100 $500 Other $ Eucalyptus achieve maximum species I am paying by: Cheque/Money Order Bankcard Mastercard Visa Diners Club American Express richness. It will protect vulnerable and endangered species and plant Card number: / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / Expiry date: / / / / communities. It will assist the Card holder’s name: Card holder’s signature: amalgamation of two existing nature reserves and contribute to a conservation Please send me information on making a bequest Please send me (qty) counter packs (30 leaflets and stand) to distribute locally project of national significance. Name (Please print) Dr/Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss

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