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 sePerth 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. It is :ilso a major employer, p:irticularly in region:il areas such as Manjimup, which would h:ive great An up-to-date report Their aims, clecidecl dur­ there were mo re than 1200 population of other species Also necessary is a well­ difficulty surviving in the absence of a timber industry. on the vegetatio n and ing earlier discussions with occupied gu ll nest s at the of sea birds, and hence to defined system of access Since the industry obtains most of its resource from population of silver Ranger Jim Maher. were to time of I he survev and that the conservation status or routes to avoid further the isl and." lands managed by CALM, it is a very important client gulls on Penguin Island note any changes in the more than 2000 gu ll s were vegetation loss . vegetation pattern since o n the island. The culling of the gulls is The one-day exercise of this Department. is the result o f a survey l 983, to discover major in­ one or the most urgent "was a good example of The last few weeks have seen several important poli­ by geography students cy initiatives by the Government, which will h:ivc creases in vegetation loss, Their report says: "All management decisions, cooperation between a ter­ major effect on the industry and the Department. fro m the WA to estimate the number of available evidence suggests they said. tiary institution and In additon to the decision to increase woodchip University. breeding Silver Gulls, and that the silver gull popula­ As to vegetation, the CALM, resulting in benefit royalties and to allocate a large sum of money to to offer suggestions on tion is expanding extreme­ group suggests that sign­ to both parties," said Bar­ CALM's Wood Utilisation Research Centre at Har­ Ten students visited the possible management ly rapidly and that this positing was urgent, espe­ ney Wh it e, Assistan t vey, the Government has accepted the recommenda­ island in October as part of strategics. ex plosion ... is in some cially where people get off Manager, Metropolitan tion of the Honorary Royal Commission to an assignment. The group estimated way detrimental to the the ferry. Region . incorporate the Timber Bureau into the Department. As a consequence, a new Division of f'orest Resources will be established which will incorporate PUBLIC WORKSHOP AT MUNDARING ... the timber production, inventory and silviculture branches. The Director of the Division of J<'orest Resources will report to the General Manager. These decisions, I believe, are a forerunner to a number over the next 12 months which will have major tection management implications to the timber industry and the Department. This is because of the juxtaposition of a number of By Drew Haswell factors. These include Australian-wide public controversy THE public again well attended a surrounding timber production in State Forests, the issues aired statutory requirement for CALM to produce land Protection Workshop at Mundaring on management plans for the forest regions in the next February 21. 12 months, major changers in the utilisation and mar­ Of 70 people who at­ workshop, on fire, iden­ keting of timber, and the biological fact that the resource that the industry has used in the past - large tended, 44 represented tified some main con­ trees - is running out. public interest groups, cerns. In response to these changes, CALM, in additon to including beekeepers, rifle producing land management plans for the three forest clubs, riding clubs, envir­ These included the regions, will produce a white paper on timber produc­ onmental consultants, protection of Ii fe and tion strategy for the State. conservation groups, bird property, education of We are also currently involved in a general royalty watching unions, the public about fire, and reappraisal. wildflower societies, 4WD variations in prescribed All this means that the next 12 months will deter­ clubs, ratepayer and burning regimes. mine the way the timber industry develops over the progress associations and next 20 years. Some suggested local authorities. During these next 12 months, we will be involved strategies were better def­ in intensive and, I expect, vigorous negotiations with The workshop was held inition of policies and the industry and other members of the community to obtain public comment strategies using fire man­ concerned with the use of forest for timber production. It will be a difficult and time-consuming exercise, on a range of protection agement plans, training but in the end I am optimistic that we can derive a management issues on and financing of fire long-term strategy for a vigorous and sustainable in­ CALM land at Mundar­ fighting organisations, dustry which will provide timber for West Australian ing. public education, research Consumers, and also provide all other members of the and improved liaison. GORDON STYLES demonstrates the use of the foam branch public with an equity in the State's forests. Protection management to disperse fire fighting foam. SYD SHEA was broadly defined into Major disease issues Executive Director the areas of fire, disease were identified as the and the envirunment. need for funds to impr0ve CALM News is the Department of Conserva­ information sessions disease control; restric­ tion of access and operat­ TEST FOR FIRE tion and Land Management·s monthly staff followed the opening by newspaper. Peter Hewett using both ions; rehabilitation in na­ We hope you will become involved in its publi­ CALM and speakers tional parks; and public cation by sending articles (up to 400 words). let­ from the Mundaring education. ters, photographs (with captions), minutes from F·IGHTING FOAM Shire, Agriculture Pro­ meetings and items of interest to: Environmental issues applied as a blanket on hot glowing tection Board Water A SYNTHETIC con­ Colleen Henry-Hall. involved feral animals, wnbers, which overcomes the problem Authority of WA and the centrate that produces fire Department Conservation and I.and Mimage­ noxious weeds, water of steaming and blowback when water Wildflower Society of ment Como WA 6152 - phone 367 6333 - nt quality, logging and re­ fighting foam 60 times the is applied directly to hot spots. 325. WA. habilitation, and public volume of water to which it is EDITOR: Richard (;rani 386 8811. The first afternoon misuse of natural lands. Where access permits, it can be used added is being evaluated by as a firebreak and unlike water, the CALM for use in forest fires operator can see where the break has Canberra and mopping up. been laid. "Fighting fire with foam is not new, "Chemical fire retardant •can be student in fact it has been in use for over l00 added to the water tank to enhance the years," said Gordon Styles, Regional fire fighting and adhesive properties of Forester at Bun bury, who is in charge o'f the foam," Gordon said. on visit the development and research of CALM The foam concentrate is dispensed ' ' • • ' l'lfffi:. • :,a ·_ fire fighting equipment. SON, a second-year land­ from a separate tank via a tap into the "What is new is its application in suction side of the water pump. scape architecture student forest fire control." at Canberra's College of The foam has benefits other than With a change of nozzle to a "foam Advanced Education, making water go further. branch" and a turn of the tap, foam gained experience in her It is particularly effective when can be instantly generated. profession when she worked for CALM over field trips and research the summer break. e SUSAN WORLEY, a Susan, who was a sec­ teacher seconded from the ondary science teacher at work to familiarise herself As project designer for Education Department, with departmental activi­ the Icy Creek camping Mt Lawley and Busselton, will be working with the area near Dwellingup, she is hoping to be able to ties. new CALM education was responsible for de­ provide teachers with ac­ She will also request officer as a liaison be­ signing the group camp­ curate information about information from ing area and later tween CALM and sec- CALM's activities and specialists within CALM, 1 ,. ~:. '.'s-. ,.· .• ,_, - ~ • ondary teachers. suggest ways that this in­ to be used in preparing supervising initial site PHYONA ROBARTSON works. formation can be used in resource packages for She spent several days the existing school cur­ teachers and will be in­ surveying and collecting riculum. volved in coordinating information on the site Reflections on 'The Fire' requests for visits to and recording her im­ To achieve this, Susan school groups by CALM DURING the long days and passenger in a patrol car and he Within 10 minutes of the pressions. is keen to participate in officers. got a lift from Como to the fire request, CALM got a call from In the office she plotted longer nights of "the fire", compliments of the police. the Department of Defence ask­ that information on a there was little time to reflect ing how they were going to use map and eventually on the dedication and hard It's nice being able to do that knapsacks to put out the fire. created two options for work of all involved. on the right side of the law. the best use of the site for Once "the fire" was out, KEVIN WHITE, District For­ JOCK SMART, Superin­ group camping and .re­ people started swapping stories ester Bun bury, spent 11 hours tendent Protection, and Steve creating. and these few examples are and 20 minutes in the air in the Quain, Divisional Manager Op­ In designing the camp­ representative of the effort put back of a spotter plane. erations, have fought many a fire ing area she considered in to controlling the fire. To put that into perspecti ve, a together down south, and they such things as vehicle We regret that many of the flight from Melbourne to affectionately call the southern access, recreational activi­ stories are not publishable here, Honolulu takes about IO hours ocean the Great Southern Fire ties :ind whether camping but some can be: and 30 minutes and passengers Break. would be in large areas GORDON STYLES, Regional get free drinks and the use of After running this fire into the with many sites or in Forester Bunbury, drove from toilets. Indian Ocean, they now call it the smaller, divided areas Esperance to Perth in one day, ,Fl FTY people were requested Great Western Fire Break. CALM Security Officer JIM STAMATIS with fewer sites. arriving at the fire in time to start from the army to help fight the A female CALM officer, called Her design for ky on night shift. fire. 0eft), seems undecided on whether he should out once again on fire duty, said, give this helicopter pilot a parking ticket af­ Creek has been :iccepkd The fire also gave Gordon th e They were told to bring along "Working for this Department is and work is expected lo chance to fulfil a lifetime dream. two shovels, two rakes and two the finest form of contraception ter he landed on the bitumen outside the begin soon. He had always wanted to be a knapsacks each . I've ever known." Bush Fires Board office during the fire. UCIIUDAICU IIAIC~ ATTRACTION ·11 S.W. SOME of the best "decorated" caves in the world are in WA, and most of those caves are within Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park. And the fact that there way through or it will Giants Cave, 550m long are more than 350 wild seem like they're in one of with five chamhers, is of caves between Yallingup the tourist caves," Roh average difficulty and is and Augusta doesn't said. suited to cavers with a hit make Ranger Rob Klok's So there is a need for more experience, Roh job any easier. three wild caves, each said. Rob has responsibility with some development for the wild caves, stem­ according to the level of Bride's Cave is the ming from an interest that difficulty. most challenging, requir­ began with his training at Coolgardup Cave is the ing abseiling, climbing Yanchep National Park. least challenging and and rope techniques to get to the entrance. At present he is look­ suitahle for kids . ing at starting a registry of people who go into any of the caves, which would make rescue efforts easi­ er. Joe /Jaws IT'S a sad fact ol" life that the closest He said he also wants to make three caves, at a some people get to different level of difficulty, nature is driving more accessible to the pub­ through the countn lic and "coax people to use out a on the highway. those three and leave the But those \'iews or the others alone". busli can be jmt a, satisrying as wa lking Rob works closely with 30km of the Bibbulm an WA caving clubs in tak­ Track 11", for instance. ing care of the wild caves. IIBDDY man the drive is throul(h a ''The years as a national park ranger stand or towering \arri The caving clubs have trees or sun-dapp led surveyed the area and are were the happiest years of my working wandoo in late after­ reluctant to give out cave life without a doubt," said Joe Hill, noon . locations because unin­ Supervisor at Yanchep National Park, Unrortunately, such formed people can dam­ visual treats arc rare and age a cave's decorations who has retired after 18 years with the coincidental, but it is or possibly be injured. possible to design road Department. views to re ve al the "People like to think In 1968 Joe answered Yanchep is the diversity," beauty and diversity or the surrounding forests. they're finding their own an advertisement for a Joe said. maintenance worker at "There are so many Yanchep. • things people can do here , A heavy plant operator and so much we can help ) who had recently arrived them to do. A landscape project in · Australia from Eng­ e Fitzgerald rich 1n "I learnt the need for by Eugene Herbert, a land with his wife Nina and conservation here. landscape arch it ect three children, Joe was at­ By NORMA KEEN "Coming from an formerly with the Depart­ tracted to the position be­ overcrowded country and ment, and Wayne THE Fitzgerald River National Park is cause a house went with it. seeing the situation here Schmidt, of CALM's surprisingly rich in · history, beginning history Joe moved from Yan­ in Perth, I realised the Recreation and Land­ with its early occupation by small groups chep- to Fitzgerald River need for people to have a scape Branch, will be find " the tracks of three land near the coast and he carried out under a National Park in I 973 for place to come to un­ of Aborigines. became the pioneer settler horses and a pony, sup­ four years, finishing as wind." Community Employment in the Bremer Bay area . . These people gave shore and the whalers set posed to have belonged Ranger-in-Charge before Programme grant of to our indefatigable bota­ In 1858, he completed a Joe and Nina are build­ every creek, spring, river, up lookouts on the cliffs heading to · John Forrest $162,572 to improve the nist, Mr James Drum­ three-room homestead of ing a housi at Yanchep, hill and lake beautiful and headlands facing National Park in I 977 to "view from the road" of names which roll from south across the sheltered mond, who was known to local quartzite stone on a where they will live when a section of the highway serve as Supervisor until the tongue: Gnang Meip, bays. have been recently in this sheltered bend of the they move from the Park between Bedfordale Hill 1981. residence. Narpalungup, Queelup, Edward John Eyre, part of the country pro­ Gairdner River in view of and the headwaters of the Poori Jungup. The with his Aboriginal secuting his favourite West Mount Barren. In 1981 he returned to Yanchep staff thew a Serpentine River. meanings of these names companion Wylie, a pursuit". Quaalup Homestead Yanchep, his favourite party for Joe on his The outstanding are now lost to us. native of King George Roe visited Gnan Meip was enlarged later and Park . retirement, with about 50 feature in the area is Mt The first ship known to Sound, crossed the (the Fi tzgerald Estuary) still stands on its original people seeing him off in Cooke and the project will open up som,e have sailed this coastline rugged Fitzgerald River on December 30. 40-acre C rown grant of ''The great thing about style. stunning views of the was the Dutch "Guilden area "with West Mount Having passed close to land, surrounded bi national park. highest landform along Seepaart" in 1627, with Barren in view" in 1841, the landward side of West the highway. Pieter Nuyts as a passen­ toward the end of their Mount Barren, his party The Homestead gave In what is a new use ger and the land seen epic and tragic journey descended the red shale the common name to the for CALM, a computer from the ship was dubbed from South Australia to cliffs and camped close to lovely wildflower Pimelia has "visualised" how Nuyts Land in his Albany. where Quaallup Home­ physodes, the Qualup the changes will imp.rove (sic) Bell, and the track honour. In 1848, Surveyor­ stead now stands near the the road view from nine different points along 1791 saw Englishman General John Septimus Gairdner River. from the Homestead to George Vancouver paying its outstation near Echo the highway. Roe headed an expedition He visited Yoor-de-lup, a visit to this same Glen · became much trav­ The computer pro­ to find grazing country which he renamed gramme, VIEWIT, de­ coastline and the re­ elled in later years when and to fook for signs of Gordon Inlet before pre­ picts how much of a naming of landmarks the East-West Telegraph coal rumoured to exist in ceeding to Bremer Bay particular landscape can Line straddled the began as he decided on the area. and Albany. be seen from various "Point Hood" and countryside. Roe's party travelled ob,ervation points, ac­ "Doubtful Is lands" for The Australian Survey­ Also still in evidence to east until they reached the cording information two of the coastal feat­ or A.C. Gregory and his are the abandoned shafts on topography and veg­ Russell Range. ures. brother were sent in early of Thomas Sherratt's etation which it has A year later the French Abreast of Esperance I 849 . to check the coal copper mines at Naendup been given. Captain, Bruni d'Entre­ Bay, they turned and deposits and to find a above the Dempster Inlet. Recommendations for casteaux, in charge of the followed a more southerly suitable route to the coast Sherratt had sailed his. the project include selectively removing the route to reach the for transportation of cutter, the "Walter and two vessels "Recherche" pines in roadside plan­ and ''Esperance'', Fitzgerald River where coal, and a map of 1863 Mary", into Pt Charles they gathered samples shows a proposed road tations that obscure the explored the coastline Bay in the early 1860s and view of Mt Cooke and with Naturalist Monsieur from a coal deposit. from the coal seam to landed his prospectors replacing them with Riche. Heading downstream Point Ann. there. Joe Hill shorter, native plants. Because of the interest toward "Echo Glen" and In the 1850s, John The shafts now bear of the French, Britain the estuary of the river, Wellstead travelled from mute testimony to sent Matthew Flinders on Roe was not surprised to Albany seeking grazing another failed venture. Wood moisture study "Investigator" to explore the entire Australian A SURVEY will be and six summers of dry- also critical to the eco- coastline and, as he undertaken at the Harvey. ing. nomics of certain in­ charted this region in Wood Utilisation Re­ Gary said the results dustries using jarrah resi­ early 1802, the Aboriginal search Centre to de­ will be important to dues, such as charcoal names were exchanged termine the moisture possible future uses of manufacturing, in which for mundane titles such as content of different sized jarrah residues in the additional energy or air "West Mount Barren" logs after they have dried South-West. drying space is required (Queelup) and "Mid for varying lengths of The wood from dieback for wetter woods. Mount Barron" (Narp­ time. sites, left after thinning This survey is an exten­ alungup). and logging operations, sion of preliminary work The coastline was Gary Brennan, forester could be used by industry done by Harvey Forester well-known to the early in charge of the project, in future. Lex Mathews at the end sealers and whalers also. said the one-month survey As high moisture con­ of 1985. Whales left the icy will begin in late March or tent of the wood increases Gary said a final report Antarctic waters to visit early April aiJd will sam­ the weight, transportation will be made in May after the warm and shallow ple forest sites that have costs are also increased. all moisture contents have bays of this southern QUAALUP Homestead, built at West Mt Barron in 1858. had one, two, three, four The moisture content is been measured. GALM BPPOIHIS a landscape architect MANY people have· the mistaken impression that a landscape architect only designs rock gardens. That could not be fur­ He described the job of sion of how the land is be­ Apart from working on ther from the truth where the landscape architect as ing managed. his regular duties Richard CALM's newly-hired "systematically inventory­ Richard will be working is willing to advise or an­ senior landscape architect ing and assessing an area's with CALM managers and swer question on visual im­ is concerned. visual resources and in­ officers in a number of pact and landscape plan­ Richard Hammond, tegrating these into the areas including recreation ning. with more than eight years planning and management planning, construction and Richard came to Austra­ experience in landscape ar­ processes. '' development; road build­ chitecture with the former The landform, the vege­ lia from the U.S. in 1977 ing; hardwood and soft­ on contract with the Vic­ Victorian Forests Commis­ tation and the soils and wood management and sion, joined CALM's Rec­ how man alters them all torian Forests Commission impact assessments; and to establish a visual reation and Landscape contribute to the visual im­ site development, design Branch recently. pact of an area. resource management Richard Hammond and rehabilitation. programme. "That first look often "Education and training determines how people per­ on the use of landscape The position with ceive that public land and planning are extremely im­ CALM was "attractive Improving softwood its management," Richard portant and it's something professionally and per­ said. I want to emphasise in the sonally," Richard said, ad­ By JOHN IPSEN CALM's land managers immediate future through ding that the "light, vitality could learn to use land­ seminars, workshops and and freshness of the West" TREE breeding plays a vital role in im­ scape planning to give peo­ lectures within the Depart­ appeals to him tremen­ plantations ple a more positive impres- ment," Richard said. dously. proving the quality of seedlings available for softwood plantations. average in all to be scions from each tree selected. which were then sent to Last March, "Search The search focused on Following the . initial Wanneroo for grafting. the Nannup, Busselton selection in May, each tree SAFETY SUCCESS '85" began with the aim of identifying high quality and Harvey districts, was classified in more Grafting is a form of Pinus radiata (D. don) in­ culminating in the detail with meausrements vegetative propogation us- DWELLINGUP District has been sey, Alfred Allen, Michael Bradley, dividuals known as "Plus systematic appraisal of of DBHOB, tree height, ed to produce a tree with working hard on their safety record Christopher Hodgson, Brian Smith and Trees", suitable for future about 500 ha of 26 to crown depth and width s i mi 1 a r , des i r ab I e and their efforts have been rewarded. Ian Wilson. tree breeding. 29-year-old stands. and an identification characteristics of its They recently received the Executive Roger said he was especially delighted Trevor Butcher, Senior number. parent. Director's Safety" Award for going six by the safety performance at Dwellingup. The collection of tree months without a lost time acident. "I have often said a good safety Research Officer at Como, In addition, about eight achievement simply reflects a good work WOODCHIP coordinated the programme. shoots used for grafting cones a tree were collected The focus on safety at Dwellingup has climate," he said. and trained a team of four (scions) and cones from and sent to· Wanneroo included District Safety Information Days h d f h d"ff t t f f t d" "If people are concentrating on the ROYALTIES field assessors to recognise eac tree was one rom where the seed was ex- w en 1 eren aspec s O sa e Y are is- quality of their work, be it in manage- Plus Tree characteristics. September to December to tracted and stored for the cussed and a monthly District award to th These characteristics coincide with the spring the person with an outstanding safety ment, research, e office, gang or work- growth flush. 1986 planting programme. achievement. shop, it all comes together." INCREASED are stem straightness; THE STATE multi-nodal branching; Each 8cm long scion The first breeding pro- At a special presentation, CALM He said he was therefore not surprised GOVERNMENT has member of the dominant was collected by shooting gramme, which began in General Man.ager, Roger Underwood, to find that other aspects of work at increased woodchip height stratum; virorous,· the growing tip (leader) the 1950s, has resulted in congratulated the District and presented · Dwellingup were also going very well. royalties by more than dark green healthy from the tree using a .22 an improvement in the 12 people with First Aid Certificates. He had particular praise for the die- 300 per cent. crowns; and scattered but Hornet rifle. growth rate and form of They were Kevin Ashcroft, Alan back programme, recreation work, jarrah Conservation and persistent cones. Up to 300 rounds a day trees ir: P. radiata planta Byrne, John Chilc<'tt, Ross Mead, Tho- silviculture and fire control work in the Trees had to be above , Land Management Min­ were used to collect six .,;;ti;;o;,;,n;.s.,;i,.n•W•·,;.A;.·------•m•a•s•R•o•u•se•,•H•e•a.th•e•r•W-a.rr.e.n 111•D•a•VI•·d-W•o•r••- 111d.,is.t.,ri1111c.,t.______"'I ister, Barry Hodge, today said 10 per cent of the in­ crease would be allocated OVERSEER POPULATION, POVERTY to a trust fund set up for wood utilisation research. About 50,000 tonnes of woodchip is produce in RETIRES CONSERVATION CONCERNS Western Australia each BILL LYNN, acting overseer, Busselton, retired SUSTAINABLE manage­ causing erosion there and heavy intellectual concept of conserva­ year. in March more than 39 years of service with the Mr Hodge said: "The ment of coastal zones in the deposition of sediments on reefs tion reserves set aside for pre­ Forests Department and CALM. Government believes the South East Asian Region in the coastal waters. servation of genetic diversity was new royalty of $10.29 a Bill joined the Forests Department at Margaret River seems a difficult objective to _ Most coral species are unable given little credit within the in 1946 when he was engaged to plough fire breaks with to cope with fine sediment. region. tonne is fair and reas­ achieve as a result of the twin his own team of horses for a three-month trial period. In many places the shore-lines onable. problems of over-population Conservation reserves were '' Application from He later joined the Department permanently at Mar­ are degrading rapidly through mud and poverty, the Director of generally seen as replenishment January 1, 1986, the garet River and has worked there during his entire career deposition from rivers. Nature Conservation, Dr Barry areas for adjacent fisheries, or as a royalty was recommend­ except for about 12 months in the 1950s when he was act­ Mining of coral for lime protection and Nature Conser­ Wilson, said on his return ed by an interdepartmen­ ing overseer in charge of a road construction crew at production is also a common vation. recently from a UNESCO practice which destroys reefs tal committee after pro­ Gnangara. Following the meeting Dr meeting in Indonesia. locally and increases the sediment tracted and indepth Bill has contributed to all aspects of forest work over Wilson was taken to the new study." the years, including carrying out tree marking in advance Dr Wilson represented Austral­ load of adjacent waters. The committee consi­ Several Asian countries re­ West Bali National Park and of hardwood logging operations during 1969-70. ia at the 2nd of Regional Marine Park, as the guest of the dered a number of fac­ ported that large areas of man­ Recently, Bill led a CEP crew as acting overseer on a Meetings, established under the tors, including the current grove were being cut for product­ Indonesian Directorate of Forest project involving silvicultural tending of pine plantations UNESCO Man and the Biosphere jProtection and Nature Con­ export price for wood­ Programme, to foster research ion of charcoal and replaced by chip, the relativity of and development of recreational facilities in the Margaret aquaculture ponds. servation. River area. and management of coral reef, woodchip royalties to mangrove and other coastal zone the adverse effects of this on He said that the Park was sawlog royalties and the . Bill has chalked up 32 years without incurring a lost­ ecosystems. the traditional adjacent coastal outstanding for its scenic and current profitability of time accident and received a Safety Award of Merit and The meeting was attended by fisheries are beginning to emerge conservation values but he was companies which was de­ citation from the Executive Director at a farewell func­ 40 delegates from nine Asian and as sedimentation increases artd appalled at the problems facing termined by an indepen­ tion at Busselton recently. Pacific nations. natural ecosystem processes are management. dent financial consultant. Dr Wilson said that most disturbed. Migrants from Java (escapees Woodchip royalties, delegates told the same story The meeting adopted the prin­ from that island's population pres­ which are reviewed at five First salvage about severe degradation of ciple that conservation practices sure) had established several vil­ yearly intervals in accor­ coastal ecosystems through direct should minimise destructive lages along the coastline within the dance with the Woodchip and indirect human activities. utilisation of marine resourses so park and the authorities seemed Agreement Act, were last Although most governments that they can be harvested on the uncertain what to do about it. reviewed in 1980. logs auction have appropriate legislation to basis of maximum sustained yeild, He was shown a coral reef This agreement expired but acknowledged that short-term The price of another lot protect environment, protection which had been destroyed by in 1991, Mr Hodge said. THE first auction of sal­ needs makes this principle difficult vage karri and marri logs of karri salvage logs was is near impossible to enforce as blasting by "pirate" fishermen Mr Hodge said he was !O iml_Jlement. was held at the Manjimup forced from its upset price desperately poor people struggle from Java and witnessed a group concerned about the time Dr Wilson quoted the In­ District office on January of $19 to $29 a cubic metre to make a living. of villagers illegally cutting green between reviews. This is particularly evident in donesian Director General of trees for firewood in the park. During renegotiation 31. by competition from Drake of Middlesex Sawmills. the case of coral reef fisheries . Forest Protection and Nature The Park Manager, Mr Hari of the agreement this The auction gave small Conservaiton, Professor Rubini, Traditional conservation pro­ Hargardi told him that he would be one of the mat­ sawmilling companies the as saying: "Today the major The prices were slightly cedures (associated with control couldn't do anything to prevent it ters given close attention. opportunity to buy parcels causes of coral reef destruction lower than expected by over land tenure) have broken unless an alternative source of Mr Hodge said he was of logs rejected by general are rooted in the socio-economic Regional Manager Alan down under the pressures of household fuel could be pro­ pleased that State Cabi­ purpose sawmillers. problems of over-population and Walker, but the current cultural and economic change vided. net had agreed to allocate Though attended by royalty paid for salvage and excessive population growth. poverty. Dr Wilson said that these 10 per cent of the royalty representatives of seven·Io­ logs is in line with the Fishermen are using destruc­ "Indonesia has now 160 mil­ experiences had made him feel increase to a trust fund cal milling companies, the royalty for this grade of tive, once-off, techniques such as lion people and at the present for wood utilisation bidding was dominated by log. dynamiting to harvest reef fishes . rate of increase the population is / more committed than ever to the research by the Depart­ Gordon McLean of The practise is now wide spread likely to double in 25 years . principle of conservation of coral ment of Conservation McLean Sawmills, Den­ The auction was run by in the region, though illegal, and "Areas set aside for conserva­ reefs through a marine parks and and Land Management. mark. Chris Marmion, CALM many once productive cora1 reefs tion must be seen in this context. reserves system in W .A. This would yield up to Mr McLean bought clerk-in-charge of registra­ are reduced to barren rubble. As the human population grows, If present trends in the South $400,000 a year and may three lots of karri and tion, and Jim Adams, Further and even more wide­ there will be increased pressure to East Asian region cointinue, be matched by Common­ marri salvage logs at the CALM registrar and an spread damage is being done develop every piece of land to its Australian coral reefs may be the wealth funds, because of upset prices of $29, $23 official auctioneer with 30 through excessive clearing for maximum.'' only ones remaining in near the research being done in and $18 a cubic metre years experience. agriculture and cutting of timber Dr Wilson said that, in this natual condition in our region by WA. r,:i,~n11orfivPlv . - RAF. RIJRROW'- in thP in1:::tnrl rivP.r r.~tr.hmP.nt~ socio-economic environment. the the turn on the century.