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Track Work in the Budawangs Track work in the Budawangs The coastline and forests of southeast NSW NPA BULLETIN Volume 26 number 4 December 1989 Contents Durras Lake 5 Repairing the Budawangs 6 Parkwatch 9 Action in the southeast forests 10 Public and private parks in SA 12 Jervis Bay 14 The alps 16 Naas valley 18 Cover Forest history 19 Photo: Babette Scougall. Stockyards between Waterholes hut and the Lone Islands of paradise 20 Pine site, Namadgi National Park. Easter 1989. Conservation Council 22 Subscription rates (1 July - 30 June) National Parks Association (ACT) Household members $20 Single members $ 15 Incorporated Corporate members $10 Bulletin only $10 Inaugurated 1960 Concession: half above rates For new subscriptions joining between: Aims and objects of the Association 1 January and 31 March - half specified rate • Promotion of national parks and of measures for the 1 April and 30 June - annual subscription protection of fauna and flora, scenery and natural features Membership enquiries welcome in the Australian Capital Territory and elsewhere, and the Please phone Laraine Frawley at the NPA office. reservation of specific areas. • Interest in the provision of appropriate outdoor recreation is located in Kingsley Street, areas. The NPA (ACT) office " Stimulation of interest in, and appreciation and enjoyment Acton. Office hours are: of, such natural phenomena by organised field outings, 10am to 2pm Mondays meetings or any other means. 9am to 2pm Tuesdays and Thursdays " Co-operation with organisations and persons having Telephone: (062) 571063 similar interests and objectives. Address: GPO Box 457 Canberra 2601. • Promotion of, and education for, nature conservation, and the planning of land-use to achieve conservation. Contribute to your Bulletin Contributions of articles (news, description or fiction), Office-bearers and Committee black-and-white photographs and line drawings are President keenly sought for the Bulletin. Please label photo­ Syd Comfort 862578 (h) graphs with the name of the subject, the name of the Vice President photographer and the date. Leave contributions at the Beverley Hammond 886577 (h) 581877 (wj office or phone the editor, Roger Green, on (062) Immediate Past President 470059. Kevin Frawley 823080 (h) 688309 (w) Secretary Articles by contributors may not necessarily reflect Judith Webster 414646 (h) Association opinion or objectives. Treasurer Les Pyke 812982 fhj Deadline for March issue: 1 February, 1989. Committee members Steven Forst 516817 fh) 748426 (w) NPA Bulletin is produced by Green Words for the Jacqui Rees 958567 (h) National Parks Association (ACT) Incorporated. It is Mike Smith 862984 (h) 819565 fwj produced with the assistance of an ACT Community Glyn Lewis 952720 (h) Development Fund grant. Jill Roberts 491390 fh) 724192 (w) Phil Bubb 814929 (h) 466128 (w) Printed on recycled paper by Highland Press, Tim Walsh 851112 (h) 741465 fw) Queanbeyan, NSW. Dugald Monro 318776 (h) ISSN 0727-S837 IN COMMITTEE President's i foreword A recent seminar on future direc­ rather than by a Commonwealth private sector rather than in gov­ tions for Canberra was told that Government ernment initiatives. the National Capital is now enter­ One implication of all this is the ing a second age of development increased need for people con­ and planning in which the struc­ cerned about the Territory and its ture is no longer monolithic, funds environment to be involved in the are limited and there are many debate on planning and develop­ more players who wish to take ment to ensure that the values part in the action. which they support are properly It is certainly true that a great represented. More than ever, deal is changing: planning is the active participation in issues is responsibility not of one body but needed with particular emphasis of the National Capital Planning on longer term outcomes. Our as­ Authority and the Territory sociation has a part to play in Planning Authority which togeth­ important doing this both by acting in its er have to work out a modus oper­ areas with a view to enacting sig­ own right and by collaborating andi for this important function; nificant new legislation. The with like-minded organisations. self-government means that deci­ changes are occurring against a sions and policies are made by the background in which the stimulus Syd Comfort Territory Government operating for economic activity in the in the local political climate Territory is being sought in the Boboyan piine s cause c oncern The Boboyan pine forest is in placed with appropriate native Namadgi National Park, near species. A major rehabilitation Gudgenby station. The old program will commence in the in­ Boboyan Road is open for cars as terim in those parts of the former far as the forest and is a common plantation where only dead or un­ starting point for walks to wild economic pines remain.' places such as Mount Gudgenby, The ACT Parks and Mount Kelly, Mount Scabby and Conservation Service has been Namadgi Peak. granted $13 500 over the period The 45 minutes or so walk 1988 to 1991 from the National through the forest at the start and Estate Grants Program for reha­ finish of such trips detracts from bilitation work. the experience of visiting these In view of the current state of magnificent places. The forest is a the forest, to wait 20 years before blot on the landscape. clearing regrowth and wildings The visual impact is not, howev­ would be unwise. The time to do er, the major concern. The pine this is now, while the trees are forest was severely damaged by small and relatively easy to the 1983 bushfires. Some dead remove. Indeed, in view of the likely need for such clearing oper­ trees were subsequently removed. offer a work party to remove the ations every few years, one won­ Following the recent wet spell, ex­ wildings. The Association has ders whether it might not be tensive regrowth has occurred. written to the service raising better (and perhaps cheaper in the Worse, wilding pines are spread­ these issues and also asking for long run) to remove the plantation ing into the surrounding native information on the progress of now, despite the loss of revenue forest. work being undertaken with the from timber sales. The Namadgi management plan national estate grant. of June 1986 states: 'The remain­ As a result of these concerns the As we expect that our offer of a der of the pine trees will be left Namadgi subcommittee decided work party will be accepted, I until economic maturity. This will that the NPA should write to the would ask any interested volun­ be in another 20 years or so. Parks and Conservation Service teers to give me their names. My Thinning may take place in the requesting that work to suppress address is 5 Masters Place, mean time. The plantation will regrowth and remove wildings be Kambah. Telephone (062) 318776. then be harvested, pine regrowth undertaken. The subcommittee and wildings suppressed and re- also decided that the NPA should Dugald Monro MEETINGS Sanders on the ACT environment The guest speaker for the October heater (and he has designed one) on Murrumbidgee west and the general meeting was Senator is preferable to a power station commercial creep in Civic along Norm Sanders. Senator Sanders, a burning coal to provide an equiva­ Northbourne Avenue and Torrens geomorphologist by training, rep­ lent amount of heating. Street, Braddon. resents Tasmania in the Federal Noise is not a major problem in In regard to the overall planning Parliament. He is currently the the ACT except for Northbourne issues in Canberra, Senator endorsed Australian Democrats' Avenue. Canberra has good quali­ Sanders said that until self- Senate candidate for the ACT. ty drinking water. However, prob­ government the planning process Senator Sanders' talk, entitled lems are present with regard to had been overseen by a basically Environmental Issues in the ACT, th e fl ow of run -off water from farsighted government. However, was presented in two segments, in storm drains into the lakes. now we have little more than a the first he gave a summary of the In regard to the conservation of shire council, dangerously open to main environmental issues facing energy, Senator Sanders believes pressure from developers. The the ACT and in the second he dis­ that the ACT, and Australia as a danger of Canberra changing from cussed the planning issues whole, should have an energy con­ an 'oasis of rationality' into part of Canberra people needed to be servation strategy. A lot can be the world-wide horror or urban aware of. done in the ACT by designing and sprawl must be watched with vigi­ Senator Sanders sees Canberra positioning houses so as to get lance and acted upon vigorously by as a city blessed by open space maximum advantage from solar the local community. and, to date, good planning. heating and sensible insulation. Such threats include the very However, he said we need to be Senator Sanders also raised the fast train and associated multi­ alert to the dangers of lead in the greenhouse effect and its possible function polis and a multi-laned air from cars and the possibility of impact on Canberra. Other mat­ highways around North Canberra. problems from fuel stoves. ters mentioned in his overview of However, Senator Sanders be­ environmental issues for Canberra Tim Walsh lieves that an efficient wood were the developmental pressures Campaigning on many fronts The Environment subcommittee, the usual activities of lobbying pol­ issue who may need some assis­ convened by Jacqui Rees (958567) iticians and public servants, pre­ tance with research, letter/ and Tim Walsh (851112 home, paring responses to calls for public submission writing, site inspec­ 741465 work), is currently made submissions for such matters as tions, meetings with government up of about 15 members who meet the Canberra Nature Park and ar­ officials or attendance at on the fourth Thursday of every ranging visits to environmental seminars.
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