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Kinchega National Park Conservation Management and Cultural Tourism Plan • 2002 Kinchega Station map displayed at Kars Station office. PG 2001 photograph, reproduced by courtesy of John Hughes FORMER KINCHEGA STATION SITES • KINCHEGA NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT & CULTURAL TOURISM PLAN VOLUME 1 • THE PLAN PREPARED FOR THE NSW NATIONAL PARKS & WILDLIFE SERVICE BY: PETER FREEMAN PTY LTD CONSERVATION ARCHITECTS & PLANNERS CONSULTANT TEAM FINAL SEPTEMBER 2002 A Secret Country ‘…For those who know how to see it, there is no part of our continent which is boring, and no space in it truly empty. There are few places on Earth where you can travel two billion years in time in one kilometre of space and read the turbulent record of the planet in the rocks; where, by day, you can see the curvature of the earth and, by night, see stars at shoulder level and read a book by their blazing light. Australia’s vast plains and deserts have no monuments or ancient cities, but they are not empty. Every part of it is inhabited - by songlines and myths, by the fitful ghosts of explorers and settlers, by townships and homesteads, and by stories of epic journeys of struggle, loss, survival and triumph. These stories and myths are not apparent - they have to be imagined, seen with the mind’s eye. The secret of good travelling in the outback is to experience it as much as to see it to sense its cosmic scale, read the story of the universe in its night sky, imagine the myth in the rockpool, conjure the family story in the homestead ruins, remember the bravery of explorers while you stand in their campsites. Your journey is much richer if you know a lot about your destination and cultivate ways of being as well as seeing’. From Storry Walton, ‘A Secret Country’ in the Sydney Morning Herald, 2 June 2001. Man and nature : tracks in the road to Emu Lake, Kinchega National Park PF 2001 photograph FORMER KINCHEGA STATION SITES • KINCHEGA NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT & CULTURAL TOURISM PLAN • 2002 THE CONSULTANT TEAM PETER FREEMAN PTY LTD CONSERVATION ARCHITECTS & PLANNERS • CANBERRA Peter Freeman • Project Management & client liaison Anna Freeman • Site survey and photography Trish Randell • Plan formatting and publishing Jenny Everson • Plan publishing GEORGE MAIN HISTORIAN • CANBERRA Historical Overview and CMP review PIP GIOVANELLI CONSERVATION ARCHITECT & PLANNER • CANBERRA Physical Overview and CMP review SUE MCINTYRE-TAMWOY ARCHAEOLOGIST • SYDNEY Aboriginal Heritage, Archaeological Overview and CMP review ROB THORMAN & ASSOCIATES PTY LTD NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT • CANBERRA Natural Environment Overview and CMP review BILL NETHERY INTERPRETATION CONSULTANT • SYDNEY Interpretation/Cultural Tourism Plan and CMP review FORMER KINCHEGA STATION SITES • KINCHEGA NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT & CULTURAL TOURISM PLAN • 2002 CONTENTS ‘UNDERSTANDING THE PLACE’ 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 The Brief 1 1.2 The Methodology of this Plan 2 1.3 Kinchega National Park and The Study Area 3 1.4 Terminology for Cultural Heritage 7 1.5 Authorship 7 1.6 Editorial Conventions and Abbreviations 8 1.7 Acknowledgements 8 2.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 10 3.0 HISTORICAL OVERVIEW 12 3.1 Preamble 12 3.2 Introduction 13 3.3 Lake and River People 14 3.4 Fever and Fear 16 3.5 Harnessing the West Darling 19 3.6 Riverboats and Railway Tracks 23 3.7 A Landscape Transformed: Eating the Haystack 26 3.8 Closer Settlement Takes the Plains 31 3.9 Communities in Crisis 34 3.10 Final Exclusion 37 3.11 From ‘Barren Tracks into a Smiling Garden’ 39 3.12 Camping, Catamarans and Conservation 42 3.13 Postscript 44 3.14 Select Bibliography 45 4.0 ABORIGINAL HERITAGE & ARCHAEOLOGICAL OVERVIEW 48 4.1 The Inventory of Archaeological Sites : Volume 2 48 4.2 Previous Kinchega National Park Archaeological Surveys 48 4.3 Aboriginal People and Kinchega 60 4.4 Aboriginal ‘Contact Sites’ at Kinchega Station and Kinchega National Park 62 4.5 Historical Archaeology and the Kinchega Station Sites 63 4.6 Select Bibliography 64 5.0 THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT 66 5.1 Preamble 66 5.2 The Kinchega Land Systems 66 5.3 The Landscape History of Kinchega National Park 68 5.4 The Flora of Kinchega National Park 72 5.5 The Fauna of Kinchega National Park 74 5.6 Select Bibliography 78 6.0 BUILT FABRIC, SITE ELEMENTS AND MOVEABLE HERITAGE 79 6.1 Preamble 79 6.2 Kinchega Pastoral Station Sequential Overview 80 6.3 Kinchega Station : A Brief Chronology 83 FORMER KINCHEGA STATION SITES • KINCHEGA NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT & CULTURAL TOURISM PLAN • 2002 CONTENTS 7.0 INTERPRETATION AND CULTURAL TOURISM OVERVIEW 85 7.1 Preamble 85 7.2 Introduction 86 7.3 Current Off-Site Media 88 7.4 Current On-Site Media 91 7.5 Current Personal Programs 111 7.6 Summary : The Current Visitor Experience 113 7.7 Interpretation of Pastoral Themes : Western National Parks 114 7.8 Interpretation of Pastoral Themes : Other Agencies 116 7.9 Interpretation of Pastoral Themes : Private Sector 120 7.10 Summary : Current Interpretation & Cultural Tourism 123 8.0 ASSESSMENT AND STATEMENT OF CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE 126 8.1 Preamble 126 8.2 Previous Assessments of Significance 126 8.3 Comparative Significance with Other Western National Parks 132 8.4 The Kinchega Station Sites : Archaeological Significance 134 8.5 The Kinchega Station Sites : Assessment of Significance 138 8.6 Former Kinchega Station Sites : Statement of Significance 145 ‘CONSERVING AND MANAGING THE PLACE’ 9.0 CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT POLICY: STRATEGY & IMPLEMENTATION 148 9.1 Preamble 148 9.2 The Primary Significance of the Kinchega Station Sites : Policy, Strategy & Implementation 148 9.3 Natural, Aboriginal & Historical Significance of KNP : Policy, Strategy & Implementation 151 9.4 The Condition of the Kinchega Station Sites 163 9.5 The Statutory Obligations for NPWS as Manager 165 9.6 Review and Monitoring of the Conservation Management and Interpretation Plan 168 10.0 INTERPRETATION AND CULTURAL TOURISM : POLICY, STRATEGY AND IMPLEMENTATION 170 10.1 Preamble 170 10.2 The Interpretation and Cultural Tourism Plan Objectives 170 10.3 Statement of Interpretation and Cultural Tourism Policy 172 10.4 Interpretation and Cultural Tourism 174 10.5 Interpretative Resources 178 10.6 The Linking of Interpretative Messages 183 10.7 The Interpretative Media 188 10.8 Interpretative Media Strategies 192 10.9 Implementing the Interpretation & Cultural Tourism Plan 194 10.10 Review 196 10.11 Maintenance and Recapitalisation 196 FORMER KINCHEGA STATION SITES • KINCHEGA NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT & CULTURAL TOURISM PLAN • 2002 CONTENTS APPENDIX A NPWS Brief for this Plan: 2000 APPENDIX B Kinchega Historic Site Conservation Management Plan: Aboriginal Consultation Meeting APPENDIX C REGISTER OF THE NATIONAL ESTATE: • Entry for Kinchega National Park • Entry for Kinchega Woolshed NSW HERITAGE REGISTER: • Entry for Kinchega Woolshed APPENDIX D Extracts from the KARP Report 2000 [Homestead No. 2] FORMER KINCHEGA STATION SITES • KINCHEGA NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT & CULTURAL TOURISM PLAN • 2002 SECTION 1 • INTRODUCTION • PAGE 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 THE BRIEF The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service [NPWS] Brief for this consultancy, titled ‘Brief for the Preparation of a Conservation Management and Cultural Tourism Plan for the Kinchega Woolshed Complex, Old Homestead Complex and associated historical places’, is highly detailed and comprehensive. The briefed objectives for the Conservation Management and Cultural Tourism Plan were as follows: ‘… The Conservation Management and Cultural Tourism Plan must provide a clear philosophy and strategic direction for the conservation and retention of the heritage values of the Kinchega Woolshed Complex, Old Homestead Complex and associated historic places within a framework that directs the future of the place as a regional cultural tourism destination. It must present overall policies as well as detailed policies for the conservation of the whole of the site to guide the conservation of cultural and natural heritage values that respond to and guide the NPWS conservation and management objectives for the place. ‘… The Conservation Management and Cultural Tourism Plan will focus on the two main precincts associated with Kinchega pastoral station – the Woolshed Complex and the Old Kinchega Homestead Complex. In addition the place will provide general policies for those historic sites/places within Kinchega national park that are associated with the two main precincts. Specific conservation areas and policies issues that need to be addressed are covered in Section 6 of this brief. ‘… To meet the project objectives, it is essential that the Conservation Management and Cultural Tourism Plan address the following aspects: • The balanced and compatible management of cultural (Indigenous and non- indigenous) and natural heritage values of the study area.; • Consideration of the cultural significance of the individual sites as well as their contribution to a representative collection of the pastoral industry in NSW and beyond; • NPWS management framework, legislative requirements and other stakeholder issues related to the management of the Kinchega Woolshed Complex, Old Homestead Complex and associated historical places; • The plan must be presented in an easily understood and user-friendly form for non technical users; • The plan will form the basis for reviewed Plan of Management recommendations for each site; • Provide development control planning to provide appropriate guidance for appropriate conservation/development management of the place and its multiple uses including its ongoing public role and conservation/adaptation
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