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Vol 41 No 2 Jun 2004 June 2004 NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION (ACT) INCORPORATED Twentieth Anniversary of Namadgi National Park NPA BULLETIN Volume 41 number 2 June 2004 CONTENTS From the President 3 Progress with the Gudgenby bush regeneration 12 Kevin Met 'itt: Eleanor Stodart Notice of Annual General Meeting 3 NPA and U atervvatch 13 Martin Chalk The twentieth anniversary of Namadgi National Park 4 Australian Alps Walking Track M Den Robin and \cvillc Esau Graham Scully Namadgi turns 20 6 A whoop from the West 1 5 What is happening iti our catchments? 7 Syd Comfort et al Len Haskew PAkkvvARTI lb Vale John Banks 7 Compiled by Len Haskew ACT biodi\ersity has faced ""four-pronged attack" 8 Continuation of Namadgi National Park forum 17 Graeme Wicks David Pf inner Interim Namadgi Advisory Board 9 Syd Comfort NPA policy on preserving Aboriginal cultural values 17 Options for the next ACT water source c> Environmental announcements 1 8 Compiled by Graeme H'icks Kosciuszko National Park endangered 10 Davit/ Pfanner Book Review I*' Graeme H'icks Bulletin Working Group news 10 Syd Comfort Meetincs and Calendar of events 20 Public action and political will 1 I htona MacDonald Brand National Parks Association of the ACT Incorporated The NPA ACT office is in Macl.aurin Creseenl. Clutley. ne\l lo the Inaugurated 1°60 preschool. Il is staffed by \oluntecrs but. al present, nol on a regular basis. Callers may leave phone or email messages al any lime and ihey Aims and objectives of the Association will he attended lo The post office mail ho\ is cleared daily. • Promotion of national parks and of measures for the protection of fauna and Dora, scenery, natural features and cultural heritage Phonc/Fa\: (02) f>282 5813 in the Australian Capital rem lory and elsewhere, and the Email: n pa act n b i g po n d co m reservation of specific areas. Address: PO Bo\ l<>40. Woden ACT 2w»d • Interest in the provision of appropriate outdoor recreation ;ire;is. Internet: uuu.npaaci.org.au • Stimulation of interest in. and appreciation and enjoyment of. Subscription rates (I July to 30 June) such natural phenomena and cultural heritage by organised field outings, meetings or any other means Household membership $40 Single members S3 5 $30 • Cooperation wilh organisations and persons having similar Corporate membership $30 Bulletin only interests and objectives. Concession $25 • Promotion of. and education for. conservation, and the planning Ad vertising of land use lo achieve conservation. The Bulletin accepts advertisements and inserts. The standard com Office-bearers of an A4 insert is $310 but some concessional rales may he President Kevin McCue6251 1291 (h) arranged. Vice-President David Large 62914830 (h) NPA Bulletin Seeretan vacant Contributions, of articles, line drawings and phoiograplis. including Treasurer Steven Forst 6251 6817(h), 6219 5236(w) colour prims, are welcome and should he lodged with the office or Syd Comfort (02) 62X6 2578. Committee members Chris Emery 6249 7604 (h) Deadline for September 2004 issue: I August 2004 Articles bv contributors mav noi necessarily refleei association Christine Goonrey 6231 8395 (h) opinion or objectives Rod Griffiths 6288 6988 (h) This Bulletin was produced by the NPA Rullelin Working Group. Judy Kelly 6253 1859 (h. after 7.30pm) Printed by Copy-Oik. Canberra. AC I. Lyndall Young 6286 3277 (h) ISSN 0727-8837 Immediate Past President Clive Hurlstone 6288 7592 (h), 040 778 3422 (mob) Cover pholO: 77/e Minister for Territories and Local Conveners Government. Mr I ren. at the top of Mount Bimberi. ihv highest Outings Sub-committee David Large 6291 4830 (h) peak in the ACT. during his tour oj \amadgi \auonal Park on Bulletin If orkmg Croup Syd Comfort 6286 2578 (hj the day of us declaration. 3June!°S-l Photo .lane Reid. Environment Subcommittee Clive Hurlstone 6288 7592 (h) courtesy of the Canberra Times contact 040 778 3422<mob) NPA Bui.i.iTiN — JUNE 2004 From the President This Anzac weekend (as I write) is least twice and marvelled each time at coordinated response to minimising me justifiably a period of reflection for us its dramatic and rapid recovery. We impact of natural hazards such as all—lest we forget. For members of the hope to reproduce the media release bushfires, droughts and floods and to NPA there are several other memorable distributed by NPA NSW about the eradicating feral weeds and animals. events to recall and commemorate importance of maintaining national This coordination should extend to about now with a similar aim. Coming parks, in the next Bulletin, just in case weather-control projects such as cloud up in the ACT is the 20th anniversary of you missed it. The same process of seeding which may have a much wider the dedication of Namadgi National renewal is occurring now in the impact than imagined. Sadly, the Park, though its actual gazettal did not Namadgi, Kosciuszko and Alpine coordinated Alpine National Parks occur until a few months later, on National Parks so badly burnt in scientific advisory body made up of 3 October 1984. To commemorate the January last year. In this alpine Commonwealth, NSW, Victorian and event Environment ACT has proposed environment die rate of recovery is an ACT representatives mentioned in this a celebration and invited NPAACT's order of magnitude slower than it is on column previously does not seem to participation in the planning process. the coast due to their dramatically exist in practice. Any member with insider or special different climates. Thus many of us At the instigation of that enigmatic knowledge of events leading up to the may not live to see total restoration. We alps campaigner Philip Ingamells, the declaration by Territories Minister Tom should not forget that similar fires Victorian, NSW and ACT NPAs Uren is urged to contact me or Vice raged through these areas in 1939 and propose publishing a special volume on President David Large. A brief 1952 before they were declared the Alpine National Parks for summary of an article by our former national parks. In those two fires presentation to the Ministers foundation and life member Bob Story thousands of stock were burnt in concerned. More details soon, but this can be found in NPA ACT's addition to the wildlife and flora, and kind of joint activity is important and th 40 anniversary Bulletin, published in the lives of many farm workers and very exciting. It bodes well for us March 2000. We will keep you advised volunteers put at risk trying to rescue jointly applying pressure on of events via the email newsletter them. government agencies responsible for Burning Issues. If you are not receiving These three conjoined national maintaining the national parks to align your copy please call Committee their management plans and objectives, members Judy Kelly or Chris Emery. parks in the ACT, NSW and Victoria form a very significant conservation and to coordinate their response plans for dealing with pests and hazards, Monday April 26 was the zone for flora and fauna, landscape and th particularly fires—let us not forget! 125 anniversary of the establishment geography in the southeast of Australia, and their joint management is not only of the first national park in Australia Kevin McCue, President and proudly one of the first in the advisable but surely essential. Having world—the Royal National Park on the the same management aims and goals coast just south of Sydney. I have seen would be a good start. It is also much of this park reduced to ashes at particularly important that we have a Notice of Annual General Meeting National Parks Association of the ACT Inc. All members of the Association are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting to be held at the Uniting Church Hall, O'Connor At 8:00 pm on Thursday 19 August 2004 The business: Minutes of the 2003 AGM Appointment of auditor President's report Election of office-bearers and committee Financial report Any other business Please note that all office-bearer and committee positions become vacant at the AGM and that nominations for the ensuing year are welcome. Following the business, Adrienne Nicholson will be our guest speaker, her topic: Lemurs, Chameleons and Baobabs See back cover for nomination form for office-bearer and committee member positions for the coming year. The twentieth anniversary of Namadgi National Park Deni.se Robin and Neville Esau, the Some 20 years later, those of us action on a national park for the ACT. authors of this article, were tireless ihere on the day still marvel at Tom For the rest of the tour, which campaigners for ihe creation of a Uren's enthusiasm for the proposal. entailed a fleet of official vehicles national park in the ACT and 20 years Poring together over maps laid out on snaking through the tracks and ago. when the establishment of Namadgi the bonnet of the official car. we traced paddocks. Tom appeared fascinated the boundaries that would combine the with ever\ aspect we presented, from the National Park was achieved, thev were Cotter catchment. Blue Gum Creek, and rugged landfonns and vegetation to the respectively Vice-President and the grazing leases of Orroral, Naas. and Aboriginal and cultural history. Immediate Past President of the Gudgenby with the existing reserve to National Parks Association ACT Who True to his word. Namadgi National ensure that the high conservation values Park was declared "within the term of better to recall that singularly of the whole area were protected in a the Parliament". The Gazette notice significant event! major national park. We described how appeared on the da} of the first meeting this expanded park would link with of the Namadgi National Park On a sparkling winter day in late August those across the border in NSW to form Consultative Committee, set up to guide 1983 a group of NPA members had the a complete protected area for the alpine the development of the park's first privilege of escorting Tom Uren.
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