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Gibraltar Range Parks and Reserves
GIBRALTAR RANGE GROUP OF PARKS (Incorporating Barool, Capoompeta, Gibraltar Range, Nymboida and Washpool National Parks and Nymboida and Washpool State Conservation Areas) PLAN OF MANAGEMENT NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service Part of the Department of Environment and Conservation (NSW) February 2005 This plan of management was adopted by the Minister for the Environment on 8 February 2005. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This draft plan of management was prepared by the Northern Directorate Planning Group with assistance from staff of the Glen Innes East and Clarence South Areas of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. The contributions of the Northern Tablelands and North Coast Regional Advisory Committees are greatly appreciated. Cover photograph: Coombadjha Creek, Washpool National Park. © Department of Environment and Conservation (NSW) 2005: Use permitted with appropriate acknowledgment. ISBN 0 7313 6861 4 i FOREWORD The Gibraltar Range Group of Parks includes Barool, Capoompeta, Gibraltar Range, Nymboida and Washpool National Parks and Nymboida and Washpool State Conservation Areas. These five national parks and two state conservation areas are located on the Gibraltar Range half way between Glen Innes and Grafton, and are transected by the Gwydir Highway. They are considered together in this plan because they are largely contiguous and have similar management issues. The Gibraltar Range Group of Parks encompasses some of the most diverse and least disturbed forested country in New South Wales. The Parks contain a stunning landscape of granite boulders, expansive rainforests, tall trees, steep gorges, clear waters and magnificent scenery over wilderness forests. Approximately one third of the area is included on the World Heritage list as part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia (CERRA). -
Expert Witness Report
Expert Witness Report Report prepared on instructions of: Bleyer Lawyers, Level 1, 550 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Vic 3000 Australia Prepared by: Graeme Gillespie B.Sc. Ph.D. 55 Union Street, Northcote, Vic 3070, Australia Curriculum Vitae Attached (Appendix I) I have read the Expert Witness Code of Conduct and agree to be bound by it. Graeme Gillespie 23 February 2010 Qualifications and Experience Please see my curriculum vitae (Appendix I) for my general qualifications and experience. My Ph.D. in zoology focussed specifically on the conservation biology and ecology of frog species in south-eastern Australia. I have 23 years of field and scientific experience studying amphibians and their conservation and management in south- eastern Australia. I have published 24 refereed scientific papers and 38 technical reports on amphibian ecology, conservation and management. I am recognised throughout Australia as an authority on the frog fauna of Victoria, specifically with respect to conservation issues, and I am regularly asked to provide advice on such matters to individuals, government conservation and land management agencies, and non-government organisations. With regard to the Giant Burrowing Frog, I encountered this species on several occasions between 1986 and 1992 while undertaking and supervising pre-logging biodiversity surveys in East Gippsland, Victoria. These records are documented in the Victorian Wildlife Atlas. During this period, I gained knowledge of the species’ habitat associations, breeding biology, some aspects of its behaviour and an appreciation of its conservation status in Victoria (see Opie et al. 1990; Westaway et al.1990; Lobert et al. 1991). Because of my research into amphibian conservation and management, I am highly familiar with the existing literature on the impact of various forest management activities on amphibians and the implications of these activities for amphibian conservation. -
'Geo-Log' 2016
‘Geo-Log’ 2016 Journal of the Amateur Geological Society of the Hunter Valley Inc. Contents: President’s Introduction 2 Gloucester Tops 3 Archaeology at the Rocks 6 Astronomy Night 8 Woko National Park 11 Bar Beach Geology and the Anzac Walkway 15 Crabs Beach Swansea Heads 18 Caves and Tunnels 24 What Rock is That? 28 The Third Great Numbat Mystery Reconnaissance Tour 29 Wallabi Point and Lower Manning River Valley Geology 32 Geological Safari, 2016 36 Social Activities 72 Geo-Log 2016 - Page 1 President’s Introduction. Hello members and friends. I am pleased and privileged to have been elected president of AGSHV Inc. for 2016. This is an exciting challenge to be chosen for this role. Hopefully I have followed on from where Brian has left off as he has left big shoes to fill. Brian and Leonie decided to relinquish their long held posts as President and Treasurer (respectively) after many years of unquestionable service to our society, which might I say, was carried out with great efficiency and grace. They have set a high standard. Thank you Brian and Leonie. We also welcomed a new Vice President, Richard Bale and new Treasurer John Hyslop. Although change has come to the executive committee the drive for excellence has not been diminished. Brian is still very involved with organising and running activities as if nothing has changed. The “What Rock Is That” teaching day Brian and Ron conducted (which ended up running over 2 days) at Brian’s home was an outstanding success. Everyone had samples of rocks, with Brian and Ron explaining the processes involved in how these rocks would have formed, and how to identify each sample, along with copious written notes and diagrams. -
The Engineering and Mining Journal 1893-11-11
THE ENGiNEEftING ANi) MINl^fG At. 491 The success of the cyanide process in South Africa, especially in the Witwatersrand mines, has encouraged its trial by other companies in that tfiE region who do not acknowledge' the validity of the McArthur-Foreest > patents. Our London correspondent writes that the Consolidate Gold¬ MxsmG ^ fields Com;)any is preparing to put up a cyanide plant at its mines in the Transvaal—and preparing also to fight the African Gold Refining Com¬ pany, which owns the patents. The Steel Rail Association is still quoting the nominal price of rails at $29 per ton at mill. This is much above actual prices, however, and, sales are said to have been made by a Pennsylvania mill at $24 de-“ Kntered at the Post-umce oi Mew York. N. Y., as aecund-ClasR Mall Matter. ivered at tidewater. There is a prospect of a still further reductiota; and for the present it is not easy to say what the actual prices are, fot rumors VoL, LVI. NOVEMBER IL No. 20. of even lower prices are numerous, our Philadelphia correspondent writ¬ aiOHAED P. BOTHWELL, 0. E., M. E., Editor. ^ ing that rumor has named prices as low as $22..W. B0B8ITEB W. BAYMOED, Fh. D., M. E., Soeoial Oontribator. The silver miners of the West have certainly had to suffer severely from SOPHIA BBAEUNLIOH, Bnainess Manager. the pan jc, and they have not left the rest of the w'orld in ignorance of the THE BOIENTIFIO FUBLIBHIKa 00., FnbUehen. fact, as every one knows; but the iron ore miners of Michigan and Min¬ nesota have suffered in silence a much heavier blow than their silver SUBSCRIPTION PRICE : For the United States. -
Native Plants Sixth Edition Sixth Edition AUSTRALIAN Native Plants Cultivation, Use in Landscaping and Propagation
AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS SIXTH EDITION SIXTH EDITION AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS Cultivation, Use in Landscaping and Propagation John W. Wrigley Murray Fagg Sixth Edition published in Australia in 2013 by ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Reed New Holland an imprint of New Holland Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd Sydney • Auckland • London • Cape Town Many people have helped us since 1977 when we began writing the first edition of Garfield House 86–88 Edgware Road London W2 2EA United Kingdom Australian Native Plants. Some of these folk have regrettably passed on, others have moved 1/66 Gibbes Street Chatswood NSW 2067 Australia to different areas. We endeavour here to acknowledge their assistance, without which the 218 Lake Road Northcote Auckland New Zealand Wembley Square First Floor Solan Road Gardens Cape Town 8001 South Africa various editions of this book would not have been as useful to so many gardeners and lovers of Australian plants. www.newhollandpublishers.com To the following people, our sincere thanks: Steve Adams, Ralph Bailey, Natalie Barnett, www.newholland.com.au Tony Bean, Lloyd Bird, John Birks, Mr and Mrs Blacklock, Don Blaxell, Jim Bourner, John Copyright © 2013 in text: John Wrigley Briggs, Colin Broadfoot, Dot Brown, the late George Brown, Ray Brown, Leslie Conway, Copyright © 2013 in map: Ian Faulkner Copyright © 2013 in photographs and illustrations: Murray Fagg Russell and Sharon Costin, Kirsten Cowley, Lyn Craven (Petraeomyrtus punicea photograph) Copyright © 2013 New Holland Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd Richard Cummings, Bert -
'Genome to Paddock' Approach to Control Plant Disease
PLENARY 1 – DANIEL MCALPINE MEMORIAL LECTURE A ‘genome to paddock’ approach to control plant disease 1 Barbara Howlett 1. University of Melbourne, Melbounre, VIC, Australia Pathogenic fungi evolve in concert with their plant hosts to invade and overcome defence responses. A detailed knowledge of these processes is essential for successful disease management strategies. Blackleg caused by the fungus, Leptosphaeria maculans, is the major disease of canola worldwide. In this lecture I describe how field data, such as disease incidence and severity, coupled with information about the biology, molecular genetics and genomics of the blackleg fungus has been exploited to control this important disease. Field populations of Leptosphaeria maculans can evolve and overcome disease resistance bred into canola within three years of commercial release of a cultivar. The risk of breakdown of resistance can be determined by monitoring disease severity of canola cultivars and changes in virulence of fungal populations using high throughput molecular assays that are based on sequences of avirulence genes. Farmers can avoid a predicted epidemic by sowing canola cultivars with different resistance genes in subsequent years. This strategy has been exploited in Australia and has averted substantial yield losses due to disease. NOTES: CONCURRENT SESSION 1 – PEST AND PATHOGEN EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY Linking molecules to morphology: fruit fly integrative taxonomy Mark K Schutze1, Matthew N Krosch1, Jane Royer2, Nicholas Woods3, Rodney Turner3, Melanie Bottrill3, Bill Woods4, Ian 4 1 1 5 Lacey , Jacinta McMahon , Francesca Strutt , Stephen L Cameron 1. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QUEENSLAND, Australia 2. Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane 3. Plant Health Australia, Canberra 4. -
Annual Report 2001-2002 (PDF
2001 2002 Annual report NSW national Parks & Wildlife service Published by NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service PO Box 1967, Hurstville 2220 Copyright © National Parks and Wildlife Service 2002 ISSN 0158-0965 Coordinator: Christine Sultana Editor: Catherine Munro Design and layout: Harley & Jones design Printed by: Agency Printing Front cover photos (from top left): Sturt National Park (G Robertson/NPWS); Bouddi National Park (J Winter/NPWS); Banksias, Gibraltar Range National Park Copies of this report are available from the National Parks Centre, (P Green/NPWS); Launch of Backyard Buddies program (NPWS); Pacific black duck 102 George St, The Rocks, Sydney, phone 1300 361 967; or (P Green); Beyers Cottage, Hill End Historic Site (G Ashley/NPWS). NPWS Mail Order, PO Box 1967, Hurstville 2220, phone: 9585 6533. Back cover photos (from left): Python tree, Gossia bidwillii (P Green); Repatriation of Aboriginal remains, La Perouse (C Bento/Australian Museum); This report can also be downloaded from the NPWS website: Rainforest, Nightcap National Park (P Green/NPWS); Northern banjo frog (J Little). www.npws.nsw.gov.au Inside front cover: Sturt National Park (G Robertson/NPWS). Annual report 2001-2002 NPWS mission G Robertson/NPWS NSW national Parks & Wildlife service 2 Contents Director-General’s foreword 6 3Conservation management 43 Working with Aboriginal communities 44 Overview Joint management of national parks 44 Mission statement 8 Aboriginal heritage 46 Role and functions 8 Outside the reserve system 47 Customers, partners and stakeholders -
NPWS Annual Report 2001-2002
43 3 Eastern grey kangaroos, Bournda National Park. A Brown The management of natural and cultural heritage values across the state, incorporating: conservation incentives, education and advice regulation and enforcement the nurture and rehabilitation of the natural and cultural heritage landscape, including protected areas and beyond the establishment of appropriate reserves the ecologically sustainable use of protected areas. 44 Conservation management Conservation management is undertaken by the NPWS and by many other organisations and communities. It is done not only on NPWS managed lands, but right across New South Wales. This chapter is about conservation management in its N Graham/NPWS broadest sense and includes activities through which the NPWS is contributing to the achievement of NSW Biodiversity Strategy objectives. Working with Aboriginal communities The NPWS works with Aboriginal communities to achieve the protection of natural and cultural heritage through mechanisms that also deliver social and economic benefits. In the north of the state, the NPWS continued to consult with the Bundjalung and Githabul communities in order to improve NPWS management of areas and ensure its sensitivity to cultural issues. Steering groups have been formed for Mount Warning (Wollumbin) and Bundjalung national parks which will focus on developing NPWS Fire Management Officer Martin O’Connell and co-management agreements for these two parks. This process is important in Arakwal Community elders Auntie Linda Vidler and promoting the cultural significance of parks and reserves in the area. Auntie Lorna Kelly discuss the fire management plan for As part of its program for improvements for the lower Snowy River corridor the Arakwal National Park. -
Abandoned Australia’S Forest Wildlife in Crisis
Abandoned Australia’s forest wildlife in crisis Photo: Endangered Spotted-tailed Quoll by award-winning nature photographer David Gallan. Used with permission. March 2019 (Updated July 2019) Contents Part 1: A sample of threatened forest-dwelling fauna species at risk from logging 3 Comparison between ‘RFA forests’ and habitat for critically endangered species 5 Regent Honeyeater (NSW) 6 Western Ringtail Possum (WA) 7 Swift Parrot (NSW/Tas/Vic) 8 Leadbeater’s Possum (Vic) 9 Barred Galaxias (Vic) 10 Giant Freshwater Crayfish (Tas) 11 Koala (NSW/Vic) 12 Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (WA) 13 Giant Barred Frog (NSW) 14 Numbat (WA) 15 Spotted-tailed Quoll (NSW/Vic) 16 Greater Glider (NSW/Vic) 17 Large Forest Owls: Masked Owl, Sooty Owl, Powerful Owl (NSW/Tas/Vic) 18 Further threatened forest-dwelling, logging-impacted species 20 Part 2: Summary of new laws and proposals for new protected areas 25 Part 3: Case studies: Threatened species under new RFAs and accredited logging plans 29 3.1 NSW ‘Integrated Forestry Operations Approvals’ (IFOAs) 30 3.2 Victoria: State of the Forests Report documents species decline 31 3.3 Tasmania 31 Part 4: Relevant court cases and rulings and their implications 32 4.1 Enforcement of EPBC Act in relation to threatened species 33 Appendix 1: The total number of EPBC-listed, forest-dwelling species in Australia 34 Appendix 2: Key threatening processes 35 Appendix 3: FSC HCV categories 37 Acknowledgements and selected references 38 The Wilderness Society acknowledges the First Nations peoples of the lands and seas on which we work across Australia, and recognises their continuing connection to land, water and community. -
National Recovery Plan for the Stuttering Frog Mixophyes Balbus
National Recovery Plan for the Stuttering Frog Mixophyes balbus David Hunter and Graeme Gillespie Prepared by David Hunter and Graeme Gillespie (Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria). Published by the Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) Melbourne, October 2011. © State of Victoria Department of Sustainability and Environment 2010 This publication is copyright. No part may be reproduced by any process except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1968. Authorised by the Victorian Government, 8 Nicholson Street, East Melbourne. ISBN 978-1-74242-369-2 (online) This is a Recovery Plan prepared under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, with the assistance of funding provided by the Australian Government. This Recovery Plan has been developed with the involvement and cooperation of a range of stakeholders, but individual stakeholders have not necessarily committed to undertaking specific actions. The attainment of objectives and the provision of funds may be subject to budgetary and other constraints affecting the parties involved. Proposed actions may be subject to modification over the life of the plan due to changes in knowledge. 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 that may arise from you relying on any information in this publication. An electronic version of this document is available on the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts website www.environment.gov.au For more information contact the DSE Customer Service Centre 136 186 Citation: Hunter, D. -
Ch 13 New England Tableland
157 CHAPTER 13 The New England Tableland Bioregion 1. Location Bioregion. Patches of montane climate occur at higher elevations, and these are characterised by mild summers and no dry season (Stern et al. 2000). The New England Tableland Bioregion has an area of 3,004,202 ha of which 2,860,758 ha or 95.23% of the bioregion lies within NSW.This bioregion is one of the smaller bioregions in NSW, occupying 3.57% of the state. 3. Topography The bioregion lies between the North Coast and Nandewar bioregions in The New England Tableland Bioregion is a stepped plateau of hills and plains northeast NSW, extending north just into Queensland. In NSW, the with elevations between 600 and 1500m on Permian sedimentary rocks, bioregional boundary extends from north of Tenterfield to south of Walcha intrusive granites and extensive Tertiary basalts. Rainfall, temperature and and includes towns such as Armidale and Guyra, with Inverell just outside soils change with topography and bedrock, and the vegetation is very diverse the boundary. with a high degree of endemism. The bioregion includes parts of the MacIntyre, Clarence, Gwydir, Macleay, Namoi and Manning River catchments. 4. Geology and geomorphology The New England fold belt in the northeast of the state is composed of New Tableland England 2. Climate sedimentary rocks of Carboniferous and Permian age that were extensively faulted during a period of rapid continental plate movement associated with The bioregion lies mainly in the temperate to cool temperate climate zone of granite intrusions in the late Carboniferous. Much of the bedrock is now NSW, which is characterised by warm summers, with uniform rainfall overlain by Tertiary basalt flows rarely exceeding 100m in thickness that lie on generally occurring in summer (Bureau of Meteorology website – river gravels and sands or on lake sediments. -
Government Gazette of the STATE of NEW SOUTH WALES Number 83 Friday, 29 June 2007 Published Under Authority by Government Advertising
3963 Government Gazette OF THE STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES Number 83 Friday, 29 June 2007 Published under authority by Government Advertising LEGISLATION Allocation of Administration of Acts The Department of Premier and Cabinet, Sydney 28 June 2007 TRANSFER OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION ACT 1989 HER Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has approved the administration of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1994 No.146 being vested in the Ministers indicated in the attached Schedule, subject to the administration of that Act, to the extent that it directly amends another Act, being vested in the Minister administering the other Act or the relevant portion of it. The arrangements are in substitution for those in operation before the date of this notice. MORRIS IEMMA, Premier SCHEDULE Premier Subordinate Legislation Act 1989 No 146, jointly with the Minister for Regulatory Reform Minister for Regulatory Reform Subordinate Legislation Act 1989 No 146, jointly with the Premier 3964 LEGISLATION 29 June 2007 Assents to Acts ACTS OF PARLIAMENT ASSENTED TO Legislative Assembly Offi ce, Sydney 22 June 2007 It is hereby notifi ed, for general information, that the His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has, in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, this day assented to the undermentioned Act passed by the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, viz.: Act No. 12 2007 – An Act to amend the Guardianship Act 1987 with respect to the review of guardianship orders, the constitution of the Guardianship Tribunal, the exercise of certain functions of that Tribunal by its Registrar and the review of the exercise of those functions and the term of offi ce of members of that Tribunal; and for other purposes.