Fence Rare Tauna

COMO RESOURCE CENTRE II T & LAND MANAGE ENT Official newspaper of the Department of Conservation and Land Management. Vol 2 No 13 March 1986 WESTERN AUSThAllA Walk trail ,·an attraction S4.7m BOOST FOR WOOD RESEARCH A $4. 7 million expansion of WA's wood utilisation research programme over the next four years, has been announced by the Minister for Conservation and Land Management, Barry Hodge. Mr Hodge said the The State received $15 a in regenerated, regrowth This could generate an Federal Minister for In cubic metre for jarrah logs, forest. extra $1,000 jobs. dustry, Technology and furniture grade timber was Thinning of these trees Commerce, Senator worth more than $2,000 a This additional timber was essential to increase resource could be ob- cubic metre. growth of the residual Button, had approved a tained without unneces trees and enhance the research contract worth The market for furniture sary pressure on the forest's recreational and $1. 7 million to the gracie timber worldwide forest. Department of Conser was increasing dramat conservation values. One interesting aspect of vation and Land Man ically. Thinning of the forest the contract was the agement to research and in water catchments The Federal contract was proposal to research develop techniques to would also result in large awarded specifically to Eastern States' eucalypts increases in water yield. convert small diameter research the utilisation of which have beeh planted trees to high quality small size jarrah trees and If the small tree resource on bauxite pits and on sawn timber. other eucalypt species. could be utilised as a con catchments. The Federal funds will It was generally not sequence of the research at be matched by the De realised that where there Harvey, there was poten He said there were partment of Conservation was a deficit of large trees tially an extra 400,000 9u more than 8,000ha of and Land Management in the karri and jarrah bic metres of forest worth different eucalypt species and further funds will forest, there was an about $ 100 million which planted in WA on bauxite come from the recently abundance of small trees could be used each year. pits and on farmlands. announced woodchip royalty allocation to Many of these trees, timber utilisation re- particularly those on se<!rch. bauxite pits were reaching DESERT SEARCH a size where, if the SHANNON Forest visitors at the start of a walk trail. The application for the research programme was contract was made by the successful, they could be Forest Production potentially converted into Recreation facilities Council of WA, an indu high grade sawn material. stry advisory body to the FOR RUFOUS completed at Shannon· Department. Phil Shedley from the By RAE BURROWS tables, camping facilities, barbecues, a Timber Production Branch HARE-WALLABY · -rammed earth multi-use centre, toilet was the main architect of the application. Fence RECREATIONAL facili block and more than 10km of walk A SMALL hare-like wallaby thought to be ties in the Shannon Forest trails. Mr Hodge said he was extinct on the mainland in WA will be the subject have been completed recently. The Shannon Dam Walk is a family delighted with the Federal of a two-week survey in the Great Sandy Desert trail, and accessible to disabled people Government's decision later this year. aids The first facility that visitors will for the first 600m. because it acknowledged encounter is the information centre. CALM's wildlife re Rufous Hare-Wallaby) that the Department of searchers will look for the are rare except in re The centre, made of poles with a The Rocks Walk gives visitors a beautiful view of the river basin. Conservation and Land Rufous Hare-Wallaby, stricted habitats, and one shingled roof, houses an attractive Management and the WA one of five known species is fairly common. display on the history and development Scheme workers have spent a great of small hare-wallabies rare timber industry were lead CALM's Principal of the Shannon mill, land management deal of time rehabilitating the old mill ing the rest of Australia in that were once common Wildlife Research Officer, practices, fauna and fungi and camping and townsites. wood utilisation research. throughout most of the Dr Andrew Burbidge, said guidelines, which should interest all arid and semi-arid parts The mill site and several kilometres of small populations of the visitors to the area. In the 18 months since of Australia. old tracks have been ripped up, Rufous Hare-Wallaby tauna The structure and display are the the Centre had been estab landscaped and replanted. They derived their sci existed on Bernier and THE spectacular re products of the labour of CEP workers lished techniques had been entific name - Lag Dorre Islands off Shark covery of one of W .A. 's and are testimony to the skill which can Remains of the original townsite and developed which resulted in orchestes - from Greek, Bay in WA, and in the rarest wHdflowers shows be tapped in these programmes. the tangle of exotic and often noxious a 400 percent increase in meaning dancing hare. Northern Territory's Tana the value of fencing rare Other facilities in the Shannon were plants have been removed and the area the proportion of sawn jar mi- -Desert.·- or endangered flora, also constructed under CEP grants. landscaped so it now forms an excellent rah which could be used Of the five, two are He said distribution of said Dr Steve Hopper, They include a barbecue shelter, camping area. for furniture. extinct, two (including the hare-wallabies declined Research Officer at severely on the mainland CALM's Wildlife Re with the clearing of land search Centre. following European set One Wongan Trig tlement and the introduc gerplant was known to Barry Hodge appoint~d tion of predators. Before European set exist in WA in 1980. MR BARRY HODGE, MLA, has been tlement, the use of fire to A sheep-proof fence hunt the wallabies by was erected around this appointed Minister for Conservation and Aboriginals enhanced the specimen and a second Land Management. CALM Minister species survival. plant appeared inside the fence the following as a member of the Regrowth following fire He succeeds Mr Ron school classes at Perth Employees' Union for 10 improved the sources of year. Parliamentary Party's Davies, who did not seek Technical College and years and membership of food and shelter, while By 1985, the count a ministerial appointment working at commercial the Liquor Trades' Union Health and Industry the small fires prevented was up to 35 plants. after the recent State radio stations 6PR and for 14 years. Committees. large summer wildfires Fencing flora is parti elections. 6IX, he joined TVW Chan- In 1975, Mr Hodge was Following the election that threatened wildlife. cularly important in nel 7. __ _ of a Labor Government Mr Hodge, who was elected to the post of Dr Burbidge said a areas where sheep or While working at in 1983, Mr Hodge was Minister for Health in the Assistant State Secretary 4 $31,000 grant from the other animals are graz Channel 7 he met his elected to Cabinet and be Australian National Parks first Burke Labor Gov of the WA Branch of the ing or where human future wife, Dianne, also a · and Wildlife Service tow ernment, comes from a 'Australian Labor Party. came Minister for Health. activity may inadvertently technician, whom he mar Following the retire A member of Rostrum ards the project would family with a strong in destroy a small popula ment of a former Labor Club 20 for the past 10 enable researchers to use terest in politics. ried in 1969. tion of plants. In 1969 he decided to Premier, John Tonkin, years, he helped to form a helicopter in the Great Born in Melbourne on Sandy Desert. February 16, 1944, he pursue a new career as a from the WA Parliament the Melville Citizen's Re full-time official of the in 1977, Mr Hodge was lief Fund Incorporated - It would be used to Sieve said the survival came to WA with his drop supplies at base of the Wongan Trig parents when he was 10 Hotel and Club Caterers' elected as Labor Member a body providing camps, transport re Union, later re-named the for Melville in the Legisla emergency financial relief BARRY HODGE gerplant was less threat years old. searchers to study areas ened today as a popula Liquor Trades' Union. tive Assembly. to needy families in the enjoys gardening and and to help locate Following an education tion of about 1000 He held office in the During his first term in Melvj]le district - and fishing - when time mammal populations. at Christian Brothers W ongan Triggerplants union for six years - two Parliament, he repre was elected to it's first permits. Dr Burbidge said a heli College, Fremantle, he had since been discov of those years as President. sented the State Parlia Committee of Manage Mr and Mrs Hodge copter would be of great began a IO-year career as ered several kilometres His union affiliations mentary Labor Party on ment in 1982. have two young children, benefit in the desert be a technician in radio and from the original television. include membership of the Public Accounts A keen jogger and one Kim and Jennifer, and cause of the difficulty of specimens. After taking night- the Professional Radio Committee, later serving who likes to keep fit, he live in Melville. travel in vehicles. From my Desk UWA students survey silver TIMBER- is one of the major resources used by West Australians and the State's timber industry is :i very gulls on Penguin Island significant contributor to the State's economy and the State's budget.

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