DOCSLIB.ORG

September 2016 No 266 Finding Greater Gliders Aboriginal

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
September 2016 No 266 Finding Greater Gliders Aboriginal FINDING GREATER GLIDERS SEPTEMBER 2016 NO 266 ABORIGINAL NAVIGATORS VNPA ANNUAL REPORT CALLS OF THE WILD PORT CAMPBELL NATIONAL PARK TREE FELLING IN PARKS HORSES FOR COURSES Be part of nature PRESIDENT Euan Moore DIRECTOR Matt Ruchel CONTENTS Level 3, 60 Leicester St, Carlton, VIC 3053 3 From the President ABN 34 217 717 593 Telephone: (03) 9347 5188 4-5 Ending the reign of hard hooves Facsimile: (03) 9347 5199 5 Goats caught on the mobile E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.vnpa.org.au 6-7 Horses for courses not beaches VNPA’S VISION 8-9 Giving wildlife a genuine guarantee We share a vision of Victoria as a place with a diverse, secure and 9 Protecting wildlife with healthy natural environment cared for and appreciated by all. sledgehammers and nut crackers EDITORIAL COMMITTEE 10-11 Our parks deserve far more than this Euan Moore, Matt Ruchel, Philip Ingamells, Chris Smyth (editor). 12 Forest Industry Taskforce GETTING INVOLVED IN VNPA Everyone can help in the conservation of Victoria’s wild and beautiful 13 Getting real about a changing climate places. You can: 14-15 In Parks: Port Campbell National Park • make a donation • become a regular giver or member 16-17 Doing the Department’s job • volunteer. You’ll be welcome in the office, on a campaign or in a park • leave a bequest to VNPA in your will. 18-19 Risks in mapping Moolap’s futures PUBLISHING POLICY 20 Supporter profile: Katherine Isbrandt All advertisements should be compatible with VNPA policies. Publication of an advertisement does not imply endorsement by the VNPA Inc. of Centre pAgeS – vnpA Annual report 2015-16 the advertised product or service. The VNPA reserves the right to refuse any advertisement at any time. 21 Rainbow bushland enhanced Park Watch may be quoted without permission provided that 22 Cleaning up our marine and coastal acts acknowledgement is made. The opinions of contributors are not necessarily those of the VNPA Inc. 23 ReefWatch Reboot GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS 24-25 Seeing the land from an Aboriginal canoe You’re always welcome to contact the editor to discuss ideas for articles. Phone the VNPA or email [email protected]. Articles may be 26-27 Calls of the wild submitted by email, on disk or as hard copy. Include your contact 28-29 Castlemaine’s recovering forests details and brief biographical information. Photos, maps and drawings are needed too. Digital photos should be 300dpi and 30-31 The Prom in summer ‘63 around 8cm by 12cm. 32-33 Research Roundup COPY DEADLINE for December 2016 Park Watch is 24 October 2016. 34 Tribute: Tony Woolford DESIGN Mary Ferlin PRINTING Adams Print 35 Book Review FRONT COVER Ned’s Corner on the Murray: a history Citizen scientists working with the Goongerah Environment Centre have been finding Greater Gliders in forests 36 Book Review earmarked for logging in East Gippsland, which Wildlife conservation in farm landscapes has helped gain better protection for the species. Photo by Pavel German/www.australiannature.com. 36 Mountain Ash in music BACK COVER 37 Book Review Insect-eating Sundew at Brisbane Ranges National Park. Big, bold and blue: lessons from Photo by Philip Ingamells. Australia's marine protected areas Park Watch ISSN 1324-4361 38 Families go wild with VNPA! 2 PArk wAtch • SEPTEMBER 2016 NO 266 From the President PHOTO COURTESY EUAN MOORE Winter and spring are the seasons for These revegetation projects have What these examples illustrate is that we tree planting, which VNPA members received welcome support from continue to degrade the environment have been doing for the past 18 years in programs such as the Australian while using band-aids to create the the annual Project Hindmarsh. Government’s 20 Million Trees. appearance of protecting our native At first glance this appears to be a flora and fauna. It is far better and, in Started as an ambitious project to re- large program but it must be seen in establish native vegetation corridors the long run cheaper, to avoid the need context of the size of the problem. along roadsides between the Big and to undertake habitat restoration and Twenty million trees equate to Little deserts, Project Hindmarsh has heroic recovery programs for critically between 10,000 and 15,000 ha of expanded to include habitat restoration endangered species. land revegetated; it will take decades on private land. Each year tens of before it produces adequate habitat Politicians of all persuasions seek to thousands of native trees and shrubs for many species. Meanwhile, convince us that they are the best are planted. across Australia tens of thousands economic managers yet fail to see the In the early years of Project Hindmarsh of hectares are cleared each year, whole picture – the costs as well as the we saw very high plant survival rates. approved under lax and inadequate benefits to the community. More recently these have dropped clearing regulations. as climate change and drought have At the federal level a parliamentary resulted in an earlier start to hot dry How can we repair the country in committee has recommended that summers. This year the planting the face of climate change? I attended environment NGOs spend a proportion weekend was brought forward from a very informative seminar at La of their donations on tree planting late August to the last weekend of Trobe University jointly hosted by and erosion control works. In practice June so that the plants would be the VNPA, Melbourne University’s this costs more and is less effective at better established before summer and Bio 21 Institute, the Department protecting native species, soils and hopefully survive it. of Environment, Land, Water and water than preventing ongoing land Planning (DELWP) and Parks clearing, the logging of old-growth VNPA is also a partner of, and our Victoria, to explore answers to this forests, reducing the pollution that is members play a key role in, the Grow difficult question. Should we be using causing climate change and protecting West project, which aims to reconnect local provenances of species or those the conservation reserves that we the Brisbane Ranges National Park, from further afield where the climate already have. • PW Werribee Gorge and Lerderderg state resembles what we expect it to be in a parks. The Grow West planting day was hundred years? Euan Moore, VNPA President held in early July. There was also a good turn-out of VNPA members to help plant 11,000 seedlings at Mali Dunes, a Trust for Nature covenanted property owned by Sue Hayman-Fox and the late Statewide assessment of public land Bernie Fox. The Victorian Environmental Assessment Council (VEAC) has been Habitat restoration is an important investigating how we have been, and should be, categorising aspect of conservation work but it public land in Victoria. Its terms of reference include: must be seen for what it is, fixing past y assessment of the many public land categories mistakes. Restoration activities do not (some date back to the 19th century) restore the environment to a natural y assessment of how land use has changed state. At best they result in a jigsaw with y an inventory of the types of values on public land. missing pieces. We do not have the knowledge, or indeed the option as some VEAC has made a number of draft recommendations, including a simplified system of land categories, and amending Victoria’s species may be extinct, to repopulate National Parks Act to accommodate that. They have also released with the original suite of plants, animals, a comprehensive discussion paper. Both are available at fungi and microbes that made up the www.veac.vic.gov.au original habitat. The presence of invasive species also contributes to what will be a Submissions from the public are due by Monday 7 November. novel ecosystem. PArk wAtch • SEPTEMBER 2016 NO 266 3 ENDING THE REIGN OF HARD HOOVES Photo: BIll KoSKY GETTING COWS, DEER, HORSES, GOATS AND Above: Healthy water-holding PIGS OUT OF NATIONAL PARKS IS PROVING sphagnum moss in the background, with trampled A VERY DIFFICULT EXERCISE, EVEN THOUGH mossbed in the foreground. THE DAMAGE THEY DO IS ABUNDANTLY Right: Many horses stay CLEAR, SAYS PHIL INGAMELLS. snowbound in winter. PHOTO: FEDERATION TRAINING STUDENTS When the VNPA was fighting licensed in those concentrations there’d be causing to natural areas is far more simple cattle grazing in the Alpine National widespread public outrage. to assess, and should be the trigger for Park, the cattlemen always asked population control. Accurate population estimates are why we weren’t arguing for control of difficult. A 2014 survey of horses in the So where do we stand with these two horses and deer. Australian Alps National Parks showed major threats? Deer hunters want a strong population of a population of around 9,500 all told, deer protected in the bush, primarily so with about 3,800 in the much troubled Feral horses in the they can shoot them. Horse supporters, eastern section of Victoria’s Alpine on the other hand, hold strong to the National Park. Brumby supporters claim Alpine National Park brumby legends and, understandably, those numbers are an over-estimate. Parks Victoria set up a wild horse find any plan to take a gun to a horse Measuring deer numbers is a far more consultation process in late 2012, with a difficult to comprehend. Each supporter difficult exercise, especially for Sambar dedicated scientific advisory panel and group, it seems, wants population control Deer, which are secretive by nature and a stakeholders’ Roundtable Group. The to be focussed on another group’s animal.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • 090303 Long Footed Potoroo Skull Yalmy Rd
    Pre-Logging Report of Coupes 846-502-0003, 846-502-0010 and 846-502-0013 Orbost District Study location Between junction of Yalmy River and Little Yalmy River Coupee Numbers 846-502-0003, 846-502-0010, 846-502-0013 Date 3 March 2009 Organisation Fauna and Flora Research Collective - East Gippsland Permit No. 10004865 (File No: FF383119) Motive of research To ascertain the ecological significance of specific areas currently proposed for logging. Aim of study The aim of this study is to ascertain and verify if coupes 846-502- 0003, 846-502-0010 and 846-502-0013 support rare or endangered fauna listed in the East Gippsland Forest Management Plan. Table 1: Recorded Common name Scientific name species on 01-02/03/09 Long-Footed Potoroo Potorous longipes Sooty Owl Tyto tenebricosa Southern Boobook Owl Ninox novaehollandiae Greater Glider Petauroides volans Sugar Glider Petaurus breviceps Method of Study 1. Walking through the proposed coupes to observe tracks, habitat, and feeding and defecation signs of fauna. 2. The surveying of the key species with the aid of acoustic equipment and spotlights. The goal is to observe individual animals visually or identify them by their calls. The fieldwork is ideally preformed on warm nights without rain on which greater activity can be recorded. Fieldwork should be commenced at dusk. Poor conditions provide a greater false absence rate 1 in relation to good conditions that provide a lower false absence rate. Date of study 1 - 2 March 2009 Surveyors of Mr. P. Calle, Mr. A. Lincoln habitat Surveyors of Mr. P. Calle, Mr.
    [Show full text]
  • Project Deliverance the Response of ‘Critical-Weight-Range’ Mammals to Effective Fox Control in Mesic Forest Habitats in Far East Gippsland, Victoria
    Project Deliverance The response of ‘critical-weight-range’ mammals to effective fox control in mesic forest habitats in far East Gippsland, Victoria A Victorian Government Initiative Project Deliverance: the response of ‘critical-weight-range’ mammals to effective fox control in mesic forest habitats in far East Gippsland, Victoria Department of Sustainability and Environment Project Deliverance The response of ‘critical-weight-range’ mammals to effective fox control in mesic forest habitats in far East Gippsland, Victoria A Victorian Government Initiative Publisher/Further information - Department of Sustainability and Environment, PO Box 500, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3002. Web: http://www.dse.vic.gov.au First published 2006. © The State of Victoria, Department of Sustainability and Environment, 2006 All rights reserved. This document is subject to the Copyright Act 1968. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Copyright in photographs remains with the photographers mentioned in the text. ISBN 1 74152 343 5 Disclaimer—This publication may be of assistance to you but the State of Victoria and its employees do not guarantee that the publication is without flaw of any kind or is wholly appropriate for your particular purpose and therefore disclaims all liability for any error, loss or other consequence which may arise from you relying on any information in this publication. Citation— Murray, A.J., Poore, R.N. and Dexter, N. (2006). Project Deliverance—the response of ‘critical weight range’ mammals to effective fox control in mesic forest habitats in far East Gippsland, Victoria.
    [Show full text]
  • Long-Nosed Potoroo (Northern Subspecies)
    NSW SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Preliminary Determination The Scientific Committee, established by the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 (the Act), has made a Preliminary Determination to support a proposal to list a population of the Long-nosed Potoroo (northern subspecies) Potorous tridactylus tridactylus (Kerr, 1792) in the Wardell area as an ENDANGERED POPULATION in Part 2 of Schedule 1 of the Act. Listing of Endangered populations is provided for by Part 2 of the Act. The Scientific Committee has found that: 1. The Long-nosed Potoroo Potorous tridactylus (Kerr, 1792) (family Potoroidae) is listed as Vulnerable in New South Wales (NSW) and Potorous tridactylus tridactylus is listed as Vulnerable under the federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The Long-nosed Potoroo comprises three genetically distinct subspecies (Frankham et al. 2012a). On mainland southeastern Australia, the northern subspecies Potorous tridactylus tridactylus, is separated from the southern subspecies P. tridactylus trisulcatus by the Sydney Basin. A third subspecies, Potorous tridactylus apicalis, occurs in Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands (Frankham et al. 2012a, 2016). The population that is the subject of this determination is part of the northern sub-species P. t. tridactylus. 2. The Long-nosed Potoroo is a medium sized potoroid marsupial with brown-grey fur, a rufous tinge on the flanks and pale grey underparts (Menkhorst and Knight 2001). It has a long and tapering nose with a bare patch of skin extending onto the snout (Johnston 2008). Ears are short and rounded and dark grey on the outer surface. The tail is tapered with sparse fur and blackish in colour (Menkhorst and Knight 2001).
    [Show full text]
  • Mount Worth State Park Visitor Guide
    Mount Worth State Park Visitor Guide Mount Worth State Park protects a remnant of the forests that once covered the western Strzelecki Ranges. Tall wet forests of Mountain Ash, Mountain Grey Gum and Blackwood grow on the hills and slopes and tree ferns flourish in sheltered gullies. Getting there Picnicking Mount Worth State Park is situated approximately 125 kilometres The grassy flats and tree ferns at Moonlight Creek provide a south east of Melbourne. The park is reached from the Princes delightful setting for a picnic. Tables, fireplaces and toilets are Highway at Warragul by following the Warragul – Korumburra Road, provided. Grand Ridge Road and McDonalds Track. Alternatively the park can Exploring the history be reached from Darnum via the Darnum – Allambee Road and the Allambee Estate Road. Roads are narrow and winding with gravel Between 1860 and 1862, Surveyor George McDonald and his small surfaces. team surveyed and cut a track through the thick forests of the Strzelecki Ranges from Lang Lang to Moe. Mount Worth is the Things to see and do highest point on the track. Walking During the 1870s selectors pegged out blocks on McDonalds Track, toiled to clear paddocks and build huts. In the 1920s, 12 timber mills 1. Giant’s Circuit – 1.8km, 1 hour circuit operated on the slopes around Mount Worth to strip it of its valuable timber. Relics of the timber industry remain in the park Begin at the Moonlight Creek picnic area and follow the route of a including saw dust heaps, an old mill boiler and the formation of timber tramway through Mountain Ash Forest and fern filled gullies.
    [Show full text]
  • The Mysterious Long-Footed Potoroo
    THE MYSTERIOUS LONG-FOOTED POTOROO Activity 1 – Watch the Clip and answer the following questions: http://youtu.be/RP3nHGOrCRY 1. When was the Long-footed Potoroo first discovered? _____________________________________________________________________ 2. When was it first given a name? _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Where is the Long-footed Potoroo found? __________________________________________________________________________________ 4. A team of scientists from VicForests has been running a surveillance operation to find out what? ___________________ 5. Name the three common types of animals that VicForests’ surveillance operation discovered. A. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ B. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ C. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. What was the exciting rare animal they discovered? ______________________________________________________________________ 7. What type of cameras do the scientists use for their surveillance operation? ___________________________________________ A. What, starting with the letter ‘B’, do the scientists need to set up in order to get a photo of the Long- footed Potoroo? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
    [Show full text]
  • State of Australia's Threatened Macropods
    State of Australia’s threatened macropods WWF-Australia commissioned a report into the state of Australia’s threatened macropods. The report summarises the status of threatened macropod species within Australia and identifies a priority list of species on which to focus further gap analysis. This information will inform and guide WWF in future threatened species conservation planning. The threatened macropods of Australia have been identified by WWF as a group of threatened species of global significance. This is in recognition of the fact that kangaroos and wallabies are amongst the most recognisable species in the world, they have substantial cultural and economic significance and significant rates of species extinction and decline means the future for many of the remaining species is not certain. Seventy-six macropod species are listed, or in the process of being listed, on the IUCN red-list. A total of forty-two of these species, or more than 50 per cent, are listed as threatened at some level. Threatened macropod species were ranked according to three criteria: • Conservation status, which was determined from four sources: IUCN Red List, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1999), State legislation, IUCN Global Mammal Assessment Project • Occurrence within an identified WWF global priority ecoregion • Genetic uniqueness Summary of threatened macropods Musky rat kangaroo The musky rat kangaroo is a good example of how protected areas can aid in securing a species’ future. It is generally common within its small range and the population is not declining. It inhabits rainforest in wet tropical forests of Far North Queensland, and large tracts of this habitat are protected in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area of Far North Queensland.
    [Show full text]
  • Long-Nosed Potoroo (Potorous Tridactylus)
    Action Statement No. 254 Long-nosed Potoroo Potorous tridactylus Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 Authorised and published by the Victorian Government, Department of Environment and Primary Industries, 8 Nicholson Street, East Melbourne, December 2013 © The State of Victoria Department of Environment and Primary Industries 2013 This publication is copyright. No part may be reproduced by any process except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1968. Print managed by Finsbury Green December 2013 ISBN 978-1-74287-975-8 (Print) ISBN 978-1-74287-976-5 (pdf) Accessibility If you would like to receive this publication in an alternative format, please telephone DEPI Customer Service Centre 136186, email [email protected], via the National Relay Service on 133 677 www.relayservice.com.au This document is also available on the internet at www.depi.vic.gov.au Disclaimer This publication may be of assistance to you but the State of Victoria and its employees do not guarantee that the publication is without flaw of any kind or is wholly appropriate for your particular purposes and therefore disclaims all liability for any error, loss or other consequence which may arise from you relying on any information in this publication. Cover photo: Long-nosed Potoroo at Healesville Sanctuary (Peter Menkhorst) Action Statement No. 254 Long-nosed Potoroo Potorous tridactylus Description On the Australian mainland the Long-nosed Potoroo has a patchy distribution along the eastern and south- The Long-nosed Potoroo (Potorous tridactylus) (Kerr eastern seaboard from around Gladstone in south-eastern 1972) is one of the smallest members of the kangaroo Queensland to Mt Gambier in the south-eastern corner of superfamily (the Macropodoidea) and one of 10 species South Australia (van Dyck and Strahan 2008).
    [Show full text]
  • Strategic Bushfire Management Plan East Central Mildura
    Strategic bushfire management plan East Central Mildura Mallee and Murray Goulburn Wangaratta Bendigo Alpine and Horsham North East West Central Alpine and Greater South Ballarat Gippsland Western Melbourne East Bairnsdale Central Geelong Morwell Barwon Otway First published by the Victorian Government Department of Environment and Primary Industries Melbourne, October 2014 Republished by the Victorian Government Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning Melbourne, November 2015 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. You are free to re-use the work under that licence, on the condition that you credit the State of Victoria as author. The licence does not apply to any images, photographs or branding, including the Victorian Coat of Arms, the Victorian Government logo and the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) logo. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Printed by Impact Digital, Brunswick. ISBN 978-1-74146-875-5 (print) ISBN 978-1-74146-876-2 (pdf) Disclaimer This publication may be of assistance to you but the State of Victoria and its employees do not guarantee that the publication is without flaw of any kind or is wholly appropriate for your particular purposes and therefore disclaims all liability for any error, loss or other consequence which may arise from you relying on any information in this publication. Accessibility If you would like to receive this publication in an alternative format, please telephone the DELWP Customer Service Centre on 136186, email [email protected], or via the National Relay Service on 133 677 www.relayservice.com.au.
    [Show full text]
  • Skulls of Tasmania
    SKULLS of the MAMMALS inTASMANIA R.H.GREEN with illustrations by 1. L. RAINBIRIJ An Illustrated Key to the Skulls of the Mammals in Tasmania by R. H. GREEN with illustrations by J. L. RAINBIRD Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania Published by Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 1983 © Printed by Foot and Playsted Pty. Ltd., Launceston ISBN a 7246 1127 4 2 CONTENTS Page Introduction . 4 Acknowledgements.......................... 5 Types of teeth........................................................................................... 6 The illustrations........................................ 7 Skull of a carnivore showing polyprotodont dentition 8 Skull of a herbivore showing diprotodont dentition......................................... 9 Families of monotremes TACHYGLOSSIDAE - Echidna 10 ORNITHORHYNCHIDAE - Platypus 12 Families of marsupials DASYURIDAE - Quolls, devil, antechinuses, dunnart 14 THYLACINIDAE - Thylacine 22 PERAMELIDAE - Bandicoots 24 PHALANGERIDAE - Brushtail Possum 28 BURRAMYIDAE - Pygmy-possums 30 PETAURIDAE - Sugar glider, ringtail 34 MACROPODIDAE - Bettong, potoroo, pademelon, wallaby, kangaroo 38 VOMBATIDAE - Wombat 44 Families of eutherians VESPERTILIONIDAE - Bats 46 MURIDAE - Rats, mice 56 CANIDAE - Dog 66 FELIDAE - Cat 68 EQUIDAE - Horse 70 BOVIDAE - Cattle, goat, sheep 72 CERVIDAE - Deer 76 SUIDAE - Pig 78 LEPORIDAE - Hare, rabbit 80 OTARIIDAE - Sea-lion, fur-seals 84 PHOCIDAE - Seals 88 HOMINIDAE - Man 92 Appendix I Dichotomous key 94 Appendix II Index to skull illustrations . ........... 96 Alphabetical index of common names . ........................................... 98 Alphabetical index of scientific names 99 3 INTRODUCTION The skulls of mammals are often brought to museums for indentification. The enquirers may be familiar with the live animal but they are often quite confused when confronted with the task of identifying a skull or, worse, only part of a skull. Skulls may be found in the bush with, or apart from, the rest of the skeleton.
    [Show full text]
  • 1.4.1. Habitat Use by the Long-Nosed Potoroo 32
    University of Wollongong Thesis Collections University of Wollongong Thesis Collection University of Wollongong Year Habitat associations of the long-nosed potoroo (potoroos tridactylus) at multiple spatial scales Melinda A. Norton University of Wollongong Norton, Melinda A, Habitat associations of the long-nosed potoroo (potoroos tridactylus) at multiple spatial scales, MSc thesis, School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, 2009. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/832 This paper is posted at Research Online. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/832 HABITAT ASSOCIATIONS OF THE LONG-NOSED POTOROO (Potoroos tridactylus) AT MULTIPLE SPATIAL SCALES Melinda A. Norton BSc. (Hons) UNSW A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science (Research) School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong March 2009 CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY I, Melinda A. Norton, declare that this thesis, submitted in accordance with the regulations of the University of Wollongong in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Master of Science (Research). The work in this thesis is wholly my own unless otherwise references or acknowledged. The document has not been submitted for qualifications at any other academic institution. Melinda Ann Norton 31 March 2009 ABSTRACT The long-nosed potoroo (Potorous tridactylus) is a threatened, ground-dwelling marsupial known to have been highly disadvantaged by changes brought about since European settlement in Australia. Key threats to the species are believed to be fox predation and habitat loss and/or fragmentation. In order to conserve the species, the important habitat elements for the species at both the coarse and fine scale need to be identified and managed appropriately.
    [Show full text]
  • Mt Worth Traralgon Area This Track Meanders Through Forest of Mountain Ash and Stat Park Hallston Ph (03) 5172 2111 Blackwood to Maslinsõs Mill Site
    Mount Worth State Park Visitor Guide Situated on the western rim of the Strzelecki Ranges, Mount Worth State Park encompasses 1040 hectares of Mountain Ash forest and regenerating native bush. Whether picnicking on the banks of Moonlight Creek or taking a stroll along one of the many walking tracks Mount Worth is a relaxing destination for day visitors. Location and access So far nearly 135,000 seedlings have been planted and other areas directly seeded. Mount Worth State Park is situated approximately 125 kilometres south east of Melbourne. The park is reached Birdlife is abundant within the park. Lyrebirds scratch from the Princes Highway at Warragul by following the about amongst the leaf litter, while forest canopy provides Warragul Ð Korrumburra Road, Grand Ridge Road and food and nesting areas for the Crimson Rosella, King McDonalds Track. Alternatively the park can be reached Parrot, Olive Whistler, Grey Butcherbird, Tawny from Darrum via the Darrum Ð Allambee Road and the Frogmouth and the rare Sooty Owl. The park is also Allambee Estate Road. Roads throughout the area are home to such animals as the Common Wombat, Swamp narrow and winding with gravel surfaces but offer Wallaby, Brush-tailed Possum, Feathertail Glider, Brown marvellous scenery with panoramic views across the Antechinus and Platypus. Latrobe Valley to the Great Dividing Range. Remnants of history Between 1860 and 1862, Surveyor George McDonald and his small team surveyed and cut a track through the thick forests of the Strzelecki Ranges from Lang Lang to Moe. Intended as a stock route, the track was rarely used due to the lack of permanent water on the ridges.
    [Show full text]
  • Behaviour of Gilbert's Potoroo (Potorous Gilbertii Gould) in Captivity
    Edith Cowan University Research Online Theses : Honours Theses 1998 Behaviour of Gilbert's Potoroo (Potorous gilbertii Gould) in captivity Kylie Dijon Burke Edith Cowan University Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses_hons Part of the Zoology Commons Recommended Citation Burke, K. D. (1998). Behaviour of Gilbert's Potoroo (Potorous gilbertii Gould) in captivity. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses_hons/461 This Thesis is posted at Research Online. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses_hons/461 Edith Cowan University Copyright Warning You may print or download ONE copy of this document for the purpose of your own research or study. The University does not authorize you to copy, communicate or otherwise make available electronically to any other person any copyright material contained on this site. You are reminded of the following: Copyright owners are entitled to take legal action against persons who infringe their copyright. A reproduction of material that is protected by copyright may be a copyright infringement. Where the reproduction of such material is done without attribution of authorship, with false attribution of authorship or the authorship is treated in a derogatory manner, this may be a breach of the author’s moral rights contained in Part IX of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). Courts have the power to impose a wide range of civil and criminal sanctions for infringement of copyright, infringement of moral rights and other offences under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements involving the conversion of material into digital or electronic form.
    [Show full text]