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Namadgi National Park Namadgi National Park National parks and entrance fees NPA BULLETIN volume31 numbers September 1994 CONTENTS Changing the constitution 4 New Kosciusko plan 6 Reports 8 Parkwatch 10 Mount Franklin Chalet 12 Namadgi—NPA work parties 14 Should we pay entrance fees? 22 Cover Ecotourism in the ACT 24 Photo: Matthew Higgins Trips 26 Tennent Homestead National Parks Association (ACT) Subscription rates (1 July to 30 June) Household members $25 Single members $20 Incorporated Corporate members $15 Bulletin only $15 Inaugurated 1960 Concession $10 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 pro­ tection of fauna and flora, scenery and natural features in 1 April and 30 June—annual subscription the Australian Capital Territory and elsewhere, and the Membership inquiries welcome reservation of specific areas. Please phone Charmian Crimmins at the NPA office. • Interest in the provision of appropriate outdoor recreation areas. The NPA (ACT) office is located in Maclaurin Cres, • Stimulation of interest in, and appreciation and enjoyment Chifley. 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 • Cooperation with organisations and persons having simi­ Telephone/Fax: (06) 282 5813 lar interests and objectives. Address: PO Box 1940, Woden ACT 2606 • Promotion of. and education for, nature conservation, and the planning of land-use to achieve conservation. Contribute to your Bulletin Contributions of articles (.news, descriptions or fiction), Office-bearers and committee black-and-white photographs and line drawings are President Pending keenly sought for the Bulletin. Please label photographs Vice-president Eleanor Stoddart 281 5004(h); with the name of the subject, the name of the photogra­ pher and the date. Leave contributions at the office or Immediate phone the editor, Roger Green, on (06) 247 0059. The editorial fax is (06) 249 7373. past president Beverley Hammond 288 6577i.ii1 Secretary Len Haskew 281 4268(h) Articles by contributors may not necessarily reflect Treasurer Mike Smith 286 2984(h); 248 3624(wi Association opinion or objectives. Subcommittee conveners Environment Stephen Johnston 254 3738(h) Deadline for December issue: 1 Nov 1994. Outings Phil Bubb 281 4924(h) Namadgi Steven Forst 274 8426(w); NPA Bulletin is produced by Green Words for the Na­ 251 6817(h) tional Park? Association (ACT) Incorporated. It is pro­ duced with the assistance of an ACT Heritage grant. Other committee members Printed on recycled paper by Koomarri Printers, Clive Hurlstone 288 7592(h); 246 5516(w) Belconnen, ACT. Doreen Wilson 288 5215(h) ISSN 0727-8837 Max Lawrence 288 1370(h); 272 2032(wk) Tom Heinsohn 247 5917(h); 256 llll(wk) World Environment Day President's Our National Parks Association (ACT) was involved in two activities to departure celebrate World Environment Day. Firstly thank you to Les Pyke and those members who looked after our display in Garema Place on Saturday 4 June 1994. Adrienne Nicholson, Doreen Wilson, Clive Hurlstone and others have revamped our photographs and information boards which promote our Association by telling the com­ munity about our objectives and activities. • The second event was a function at the Namadgi visitors' Centre on Sun­ day 5 June 1994 hosted by Bill Wood, Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning, to mark the tenth anniversary of the declaration of Namadgi, to acknowledge the service of members of the Environment and Conserva­ tion Consultative Committee and to announce the ACT Landcare grants. Greg Fraser, acting secretary, Department of the Environment, Land and Planning, opened the proceedings under the trees in front of the centre. He spoke of the formation of the National Parks Association to lobby for a national park for the national capital. An extract from Greg Fraser's speech appears on page 16. Beverley Hammond Thanks to Beverley for her determined and thoughtful leadership over the last three years A change to the constitution? At the general meeting on Thursday 17 November, your committee will put the proposal to you that the As­ sociation should add to its present aims and objects a statement to in­ clude the protection and conserva­ tion of sites of cultural heritage value (both Aboriginal and Euro­ pean) and particularly those in Namadgi National Park. Many peo­ ple may see this as a significant change of emphasis for the Associa­ tion and so the committee wishes to present to you two differing view­ points so that you can make an in­ formed decision. The proposed rewording of the con­ stitution plus arguments for and against the changes all appear on the following pages. World Environment Fair in Garema Place. Photo Len Haskew NPA So it seems obvious that there is Changing the constitution a significant interest in the cul­ No—not the Australian constitution, homestead complex begun in the tural aspects of our landscapes. but our own NPA constitution which 1880s by a pioneer family but now The committee believes that this requires, in some members' minds, needing protective work. As interest has not had any negative an update. ecotourism is all the go, this home­ effect on our Association's other It is thought that in the Associa­ stead—Tennent Homestead—which activities and interests. tion's aims there should be the men­ is not far from the Visitors'Centre, • The Namadgi National Park tion of the protection of our cultural could be another site the tourists Management Plan states on page heritage, both Aboriginal and non- visit when they enter the park after 37 that 'Management of the cul­ Aboriginal. visiting Lanyon which is an exam­ tural resources of the park is re­ In the original constitution, writ­ ple of how the wealthy landowners garded as of equal importance as ten in the sixties, the founding com­ lived. the management of its natural re­ mittee and others who followed only Sadly, in the past, too much of our sources.'Also at the Cultural Her­ considered flora and fauna and geo­ cultural heritage has been de­ itage Symposium (coordinated by graphical features in a national stroyed—at least four homesteads the Australian Alps Liaison Com­ park. Why? Because the original knocked down and removed in mittee) at Jindabyne in October national park proposal of 1963 con­ Namadgi and stone arrangements 1991, the final session affirmed tained no (known to us) cultural disturbed—so let us recognise and that cultural heritage of the Aus­ sites either Aboriginal or non-Abo­ treasure what remains and work to tralian Alps is a fundamental riginal. Mt Namadgi stone arrange­ keep them secure. component of their significance, ments had not been documented called for park management to Fiona MacDonald Brand then and so were unintentionally follow principles of cultural her­ ignored. itage management, sought list­ All other cultural sites that we In favour ings on the Register of the Na­ now acknowledge are in the sections tional Estate and examination of added to the park over the years. • As our Association has evolved cultural values as part of the pro­ The Aboriginal rock paintings, axe- there has emerged naturally a posal for World Heritage listing. grinding grooves, stone arrange­ growing commitment to the res­ As your Association seeks annual ments, European huts, homesteads, toration and/or preservation of grants from the ACT Government woolsheds and stockyards were on items of cultural significance. to enable it to undertake its ac­ freehold or leasehold farming land. Many members have given a great tivities, it seems reasonable for What a richness these cultural sites deal of their time and effort, for the Association to have an ex­ have added to the national park! example, in the restoration of pressed interest in areas result­ The NPA (ACT) can proudly claim Orroral Homestead. Work parties ing from human activity in the that it prevented Orroral Home­ there have generated consider­ national park as well as its al­ stead becoming a ruin by agitating able interest and have always ready expressed interest in natu­ over ten years to be allowed to work been well attended. Many of the ral phenomena. In practice the As­ on it and make it a centre of inter­ outings programmed to coincide sociation has entered into contrac­ est for visitors to Orroral Valley. with Heritage Week activities tual-type arrangements with the The most recent addition of land have been among the best at­ Parks and Conservation Service to the park also contains a tended of all outings for the year. for this type of activity and our attitude has generated much Committee's proposed changes goodwill within the service. • Historically, too, there generally The proposed constitutional changes are emphasised below in bold type. seems to be a gradual fusion of Aims and objects of the Association wilderness and cultural interests. • Promotion of national parks and of measures for the protection of fauna and flora, Initially, conservationists empha­ scenery, natural features and cultural heritage in the Australian Capital sise the natural landscape and its Territory and elsewhere, and the reservation of specific areas. visual, aesthetic and even spir­ • Interest in the provision of appropriate outdoor recreation areas. itual qualities to ensure protec­ • Stimulation of interest in, and appreciation and enjoyment of. natural phenom­ tion and preservation, but as time ena and cultural heritage by organised Held outings, meetings or any other passes and the area is secured, means then there is a growing interest • Cooperation with organisations and persons having similar interests and objec­ in detail and with that an appre­ tives. ciation of cultural resources. • Promotion of. and education for, aatuKB conservation, and the planning of land- use to achieve conservation.
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