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Environment Sub-Committee Report Willows and Wild Horses Thredbo Diggings Car Camp NPA BULLETIN Volume 38 Number 1 March 2001 March 2001 Environment Sub-committee report Willows and wild horses Thredbo Diggings car camp NPA BULLETIN Volume 38 number 1 March 2001 CONTENTS Environment Sub-committee report 3 Researching traditional life in Namadgi 11 David Large Len Haskew New members 3 The South Coast forests - from Nowra Foreign correspondent - from our man in USA 3 to Narooma 12 Andrew Wong Martin Chalk ACT Alive, Sunday March 18 3 New South Coast national parks 13 Reg Alder Willows and wild horses 4 Di Thompson "They want the Blue Mountains!" 14 Thredbo Diggings car camp, February 2001 5 Len Haskew Adrienne Nicholson Association's 2000 Christmas party 15 ACT Parks and Conservation Service operational changes 7 Max Lawrence Tony Corrigan Letters on Gudgenby Homestead 16 Climbing Mustag-Ata 8 Wilderness 2000 protection plan 18 Syd Comfort Fish of the high country 9 Len Haskew Len Haskew General meetings 20 Parkwatch 10 Calendar 20 National Parks Association (ACT) Incorporated The NPA (ACT) office is located in MacLaurin Crescent, Inaugurated 1960 Chifley, next to the preschool. It is staffed by volunteers Aims and objectives of the Association but, at present, not on a regular basis. Callers may leave • Promotion of national parks and of measures for the phone or email messages at any time and they will be protection of fauna and flora, scenery, natural features and attended to. Mail from the post office box is cleared daily. cultural heritage in the Australian Capital Territory and elsewhere, and the reservation of specific areas. Telephone/Fax: (02) 6282 5813 • Interest in the provision of appropriate outdoor recreation Email: [email protected] areas. Address: PO Box 1940, Woden ACT 2606 • Stimulation of interest in, and appreciation and enjoyment of, Internet: http://www.spirit.net.au/-npaact such natural phenomena and cultural heritage by organised Membership field outings, meetings or any other means. New members are welcome and should enquire through the • Cooperation with organisations and persons having similar NPA office. interests and objectives. Subscription rates (1 July to 30 June) • Promotion of, and education for, conservation, and the Household members S40 Single members $35 planning of landuse to achieve conservation. Corporate members $30 Bulletin only $30 Office-bearers, committee and convenors Concession $25 President Clive Hurlstone 6288 7592(h); For new subscriptions joining between: 040 778 3422(w) 1 January and 31 March - half specified rate Vice President David Large 6291 4830(h) 1 April and 30 June - annual subscription Immediate NPA Bulletin Past President Eleanor Stodart 6281 5004(h) Contributions of articles, line drawings and photographs Secretary Len Haskew 6281 4268(h) including colour prints are welcome and should be lodged with Treasurer Mike Smith 6286 2984(h) the office or Syd Comfort (02) 6286 2578. Committee members Deadline for June issue: 1 May 2001. Steven Forst 6251 6817(h) 6279 1326(w) Judy Kelly 6253 1859(h) Articles by contributors may not necessarily reflect Timothy Walsh 6285 1112(h) association opinion or objectives. Eleanor Stodart 6281 5004(h) This bulletin was produced by the NPA Bulletin Working Group Max Lawrence 6288 1370(h) with assistance from Green Words & Images. Neville Esau 6286 4176(h) Printed by Ausdoc On Demand, Canberra, ACT. Jacqui Cole 6241 9984(h) ISSN 0727-8837 Convenors Cover photo: Lunch stop on the Thredbo River Track Environment Sub-committee David Large 6291 4830(h) Outings Subcommittee Max Lawrence 6288 1370(h) between the village and Dead Horse Gap. Photo Bulletin Working Group Syd Comfort 6286 2578(h) Adrienne Nicholson Environment Sub-committee report Members will be aware of a number released ACT Nature Based Tourism further in the letters printed on of problems that have caused a Strategy and a plan of management pages 16 and 17. hiatus in our activities and that little for wild horses in Kosciuszko The wild horses issue is very work has been carried out with only National Park. A working group emotive and members have differing a few meetings held over the past convened by Tom Heinson is looking views. These mainly relate to the six months. I'm pleased to say that after the Nature Based Tourism question of shooting wild horses. The we are now back on track and we Strategy and Gary Thompson is Report on the Cull of Feral Horses are moving on with a number of leading the group on wild horses. in Guy Fawkes River National Park projects. If you would like to assist in any in October 2000 makes interesting We need to complete the 1999/2000 of these projects, please contact me reading and members should read projects in order to acquit the grant or Clive, Tbm or Gary. Any help is this report before reaching we received from Environment ACT. very welcome. conclusions. My own position is that Clive Hurlestone Hurlestone has agreeThed tNaturo e Based Tourism I have seen the damage done by wild coordinate these projects. They Strategy is likely to cause us many horses in Kosciuszko National Park include: problems. It is not clear just what is and hope they can be removed. • NPA input to the Second proposed. One matter of immediate The protagonists to keep them in Namadgi National Park concern is the proposal to develop place are mainly drawn by people Management Plan to take Gudgenby Homestead as a who enjoy the "sport" of brumby account of the claim for commercial accommodation and running. I have no argument with recognition of native title; food outlet. This proposal was them. I only have a argument with • development of a Plan to Manage rejected by members last year. them conducting their sport in Remnant Native Vegetation in Clearly, if this went ahead it KNP. If they want to indulge in such ACT Forests; and would only lead to many more a sport then let them do so on • comments on implementation requests for additional resources private land. plans for Murrumbidgee River and facilities. The strategy looks to Di Thompson sets out her views Corridor, Canberra Nature Park develop Namadgi National Park on the feral horse problem in her and Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve. for eco-tourism and seems to pay article on page 4. Two additional projects are to little attention to the values of a develop submissions on the recently national park. This issue is explored David Large Foreign correspondent - from our man in USA In September of last year, exploration beyond the reach of the association member Barry casuaRidgewayl traveller . New Members Ridgeway and his companion Given the autumnal timing and The association extends a warm embarked upon an 11-day the location of the wilderness, welcome to the following new exploration of an American weather was always to be a factor wilderness - the Boundary Waters in their journey. Indeed, delays members: Canoe Area Wilderness in caused by rain and storms required Jennifer Ballard Queanbeyan Minnesota. Given the populated them to re-assess their objective on Helen Corrigan Dickson nature of the USA when compared day four. Nevertheless, the to Australia, Barry initially had a combination of solitude, weather Valerie Elder Watson certain scepticism about the extremes, stillness and the call of Rosalie Grant Aranda remoteness of this wilderness. the loons combined to impress on Peter Hann Chifley However, his report of the trip, sent Barry that a country of250 million to the NPA, freely admits that the people, too, can have national parks N and D Hanson Deakin million or so acres of lakes, forests which offer genuine wilderness Brian O'Neill Fisher and rivers soon had him in its experiences. grasp. The daily routine of paddle N and L Page and portage set the pace for Martin Chalk Margaret Power Deakin Ben Schimer Gowrie ACT Alive, Sunday March 18 Sylvia Sun Canberra John Tassie Chifley The association again plans a display for ACT Alive so volunteers to assist Alan Walker Murrumbateman would be welcome. Note the change in venue and the later date. Details are in the Outings Program. Pauline West Kaleen Willows and wild horses Last year, Di Thompson was stabilisation, and for ornamental conservation. This WHMSC has appointed to the NSW National Parks and sentimental purposes. These been brought together to develop a and Wildlife Service Snowy plants spread through accidental plan of management for wild horses Mountains Advisory Committee. In striking of broken branches and by in the Alpine area. Two formal public this article, Di reports on some issues further planting. However the consultation processes have been which the committee has considered. planting of additional species in held - a forum in Jindabyne in Willows and wild horses are just more recent decades, with both male January and an information evening two of the issues on the Snowy and female trees growing within in Queanbeyan on February 13. Mountains Advisory Committee's polUnating distance of each other, There was almost unanimous (SMAC) agenda. Others include the started to produce seeds and agreement at the Jindabyne forum Walker Enquiry into the Thredbo seedlings and this has resulted in an that wild horses be removed from the landslide, the legacies of the Snowy exponential growth and spread of Alpine area and the sooner the Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme, many species. better. The next issue is how? new reserve additions, resorts, waste The two really aggressive species The NPWS is particularly management, relationships with in our region are Salix fragilis and sensitive to community opinion and landholders and adjoining shire S.nigra (commonly known as the political backlash on this issue councils, bushfire strategies, park crack willow and the black willow (generated to a large extent by usage fees, feral controls, Alps respectively). The black willow talkback radio and other media).
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