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+====== The Sydney Bushwalker. ======
-THE SYDNEY BUSHW4L
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+Established June 1931.
-NEAR PIPaCS cAP
-A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to The Sydney Bush Walkers, Box 4476 G.P.O., Sydney, 2001. Club meetings are held every Wednesday
+A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, Box 4476 G.P.O., Sydney, 2001. Club meetings are held every Wednesday evening from 7.45 pm at the Cahill Community Centre (Upper Hall), 34 Falcon Street, Crow's Nest.
-evening from 7.45 pm at the Cahill Community Centre (Upper Hall), 34 Falcon Street, Crow's Nest.
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-EDITOR:  Ainslie Morris, 45 Austin Street, Lane Cove, 2066.
-Telephone 428 3178.
+|**Editor**|Ainslie Morris, 45 Austin Street, Lane Cove, 2066. Telephone 428 3178.|
-BUSINESS MANAGER:  Bill Burke, 3 Coral Tree Drive, Carlingford, 2118.
+|**Business Manager**|Bill Burke, 3 Coral Tree Drive, Carlingford, 2118. Telephone 871 1207.|
-Telephone 871 1207.
+|**Production Manager**|Helen Gray.|
-PRODUCTION MANAGER: Helen Gray.
+|**Typist**|Kath Brown.|
-TYPIST: Kath Brown.
+|**Printers**|Fran Longfoot, Morag Ryder, Stan Madden & Ben Esgate.|
-PRINTERS: Fran Longfoot, Morag Ryder, Stan Madden & Ben Esgate.
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+=== June, 1986 ===
-JUNE, 1986.
-Page The Border Ranges National Park by Alex Colley 2
+===== In This Issue: =====
-Colo-rific Jim Brown 4
-New Members 7
+| | |Page|
-Advertisement - Eastwood Camping Centre 8
+|The Border Ranges National Park|Alex Colley| 2|
-Tantangara to Brindabella - Part 2 Janet Waterhouse 9
+|Colo-rific|Jim Brown| 4|
-Committee Meeting 4.6.86 11
+|New Members| | 7|
-Ault a minute - Fifty-four Years Ago 11
+|Tantangara to Brindabella - Part 2|Janet Waterhouse| 9|
-Advertisement - Canoe & Camping,Gladesville 12
+|Committee Meeting 4.6.86| |11|
-The Trans-Kowmung Push Bikes Puffing Billy 13
+|Just a minute - Fifty-four Years Ago| |11|
-Advertisement - Blackheath Taxi 14
+|The Trans-Kowmung Push Bikes|Puffing Billy|13|
-The May General Meeting Barry Wallace 15
+|The May General Meeting|Barry Wallace|15|
-Notice of Motion of Rescission 16
+|Notice of Motion of Rescission| |16|
-Letter to the Editor Tom Herbert 17
+|Letter to the Editor|Tom Herbert|17|
-Body Talk - First Aid Footnotes for
+|Body Talk - First Aid Footnotes for Non-tiger Walkers|Elwyn Morris|18|
-Non-tiger Walkers Elwyn Morris 18
+|Annual Subscription - Form to send in| |18|
-ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION - Form to send in 18
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+===== Advertisements: =====
-Page 2 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER June, 1986.
-onservation Corner.
+| |Page|
-THE BORDER RANGES NATIONAL PARK.
+|Eastwood Camping Centre| 8|
+|Canoe & Camping, Gladesville|12|
+|Blackheath Taxi|14|
+----
+===== Conservation Corner. =====
+=== The Border Ranges National Park. ===
 by Alex Colley.
-The McPherson Range extends from the Great Dividing Range east to
-the coast. The border fence, designed to keep the rabbits out of Queens-
-land and the ticks out of N.S.W., follows its crest. The section between
-Mount Lindesay and Lamington forms the northern boundary of the Border
-Ranges National Park. Until 1982 the forested area south of the border, now in the park, consisted Of the Mount Lindesay, Roseberry and Wiangarie State Forests.
-Lamington National Park, north of Wiangarie, was dedicated in 1915, following 19 years of persistent campaigning by Robert Collins and Romeo Lahey. The three forests on the N.S.W. side were dedicated two years
-later, but difficulty of access to the range restricted logging. It was
-Arthur Groom of Binnaburra who, in 1948, first advocated preservation of
-the rainforest on the N.S.W. side. Local campaigns for preservation,
-though well supported, were unsuccessful. The last of these was triggered
-by Rus Maslen, an orchid buff, who investigated the source of large quantities of orchids brought down from Wiangarie, which grew only on the Antarctic beech. He found they came from beeches cut in the forest, and this inspired him to form the Border Ranges Preservation Society. By 1973 logging interests had prevailed and the Society could make no further
-progress. His son, Peter, brought the matter before the Colong Committee,
-then totally committed to the Boyd Plateau campaign. Two years later, when the Boyd had been saved, the Committee adopted the Border Ranges National Park as its number one priority.
-The Committee's first task was to delineate its claim. It decided
-to go for the whole of the three forests, believing that if it asked for the lot it would at least get more than if it asked for a little. Within a few months the issue had hit the headlines, and continued to escalate.
-Three years later, with an election in the offing, the Government decided to dispose of the problem. It created a park 50 km long, averaging 2 km wide. which was promptly dubbed "Snake Park" - it had a bulge towards the tail
-and its head was raised. By this time the entire conservation movement
-supported the campaign, which continued to escalate, until the movement expanded ita claim to embrace all the major rainforests in the State.
-After five inquiries, all of which found reasons why the rainforests should not be saved, the Government decided to dispose of the matter once and for all. On October 26th 1982, after a cabinet meeting lasting from
-.30 am to 4.30 pm, during which rainforest was the only item on the agenda, it was decided to preserve 120,000 ha of rainforest (four times the original Colong Committee claim) in six national park additions, two nature reserves
-and three flora reserves. So ended the State's most publicised conserv-
-ation campaign, to the satisfaction of both the conservation movement and
-the Government. As Mr. Wran said when addressing the 1983 A.L.P. Confer-
-ence: "When we're all dead and buried and our children's children are reflecting upon what was the best thing the Labor Government in N.S.W. did in the 20th century, they'll all come up with the answer that we saved the rainforests."
-In geographic terms the Border Ranges National Park falls into three sections - the eastern, ex Wiangarie State Forest section, the central, Richmond Gap section and the western, ex Roseberry State Forest section. Based on a recent week's walking in the park, and a number of previous visits, Jim Somerville and I are recommending a management plan for the Park. The Wiangarie section includes the Tweed Range, which provides
-June, 1986. THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page-
-magnificent views of the Tweed Valley caldera with Mount Warning at its centre. There are walking tracks on Grady's Creek and Brindle Creek giving access to unlogged rainforest and a large stand of Antarctic Beech. There are camping and picnic areas in the rainforest on the range and another
-camping area at Sheepstation Creek, in the eucalypt forest below. Access
-is by the well maintained forest road. Probably the most interesting feature of the central section is the border loop on the Sydney-Brisbane railway below Richmond Gap.
-The Roseberry section is accessible only on foot, the Queensland side of the Range being privately owned. We believe it should be retained as a wilderness area - i.e. no vehicular access. We approached it by climbing the ridge west of Findon Creek and came back on the ridge east of the creek.
-Most of Lever's Plateau is unlogged. The rainforest canopy is very high and
-there is little understorey. It contains the last substantial stand of hoop
-pine and some of the largest remaining specimens of carabeen, cedar, strangler
-fig and other rainforest species. There are magnificent views of the western McPherson Range, including Mounts Lindesay and Barney and the Logan Valley.
-Off-track walking in rainforests is not strongly recommended, but there is good access along the track next to the border fence, and a good deal of interesting exploration could be done. I have walked the western "Scenic
-Rim" from Cunningham's Gap to Mount Lindesay, not along the crest, which is very broken, but along the upper Logan valley with climbs of the main peaks.
-It is beautiful walking country, and it is possible that one day a walking track will be constructed which will avoid the arduous climbing now required to negotiate the range.
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+The McPherson Range extends from the Great Dividing Range east to the coast. The border fence, designed to keep the rabbits out of Queensland and the ticks out of N.S.W., follows its crest. The section between Mount Lindesay and Lamington forms the northern boundary of the Border Ranges National Park. Until 1982 the forested area south of the border, now in the park, consisted of the Mount Lindesay, Roseberry and Wiangarie State Forests.
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+Lamington National Park, north of Wiangarie, was dedicated in 1915, following 19 years of persistent campaigning by Robert Collins and Romeo Lahey. The three forests on the N.S.W. side were dedicated two years later, but difficulty of access to the range restricted logging. It was Arthur Groom of Binnaburra who, in 1948, first advocated preservation of the rainforest on the N.S.W. side. Local campaigns for preservation, though well supported, were unsuccessful. The last of these was triggered by Rus Maslen, an orchid buff, who investigated the source of large quantities of orchids brought down from Wiangarie, which grew only on the Antarctic beech. He found they came from beeches cut in the forest, and this inspired him to form the Border Ranges Preservation Society. By 1973 logging interests had prevailed and the Society could make no further progress. His son, Peter, brought the matter before the Colong Committee, then totally committed to the Boyd Plateau campaign. Two years later, when the Boyd had been saved, the Committee adopted the Border Ranges National Park as its number one priority.
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+The Committee's first task was to delineate its claim. It decided to go for the whole of the three forests, believing that if it asked for the lot it would at least get more than if it asked for a little. Within a few months the issue had hit the headlines, and continued to escalate. Three years later, with an election in the offing, the Government decided to dispose of the problem. It created a park 50 km long, averaging 2 km wide. which was promptly dubbed "Snake Park" - it had a bulge towards the tail and its head was raised. By this time the entire conservation movement supported the campaign, which continued to escalate, until the movement expanded its claim to embrace all the major rainforests in the State.
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+After five inquiries, all of which found reasons why the rainforests should not be saved, the Government decided to dispose of the matter once and for all. On October 26th 1982, after a cabinet meeting lasting from 8.30 am to 4.30 pm, during which rainforest was the only item on the agenda, it was decided to preserve 120,000 ha of rainforest (four times the original Colong Committee claim) in six national park additions, two nature reserves and three flora reserves. So ended the State's most publicised conservation campaign, to the satisfaction of both the conservation movement and the Government. As Mr. Wran said when addressing the 1983 A.L.P. Conference: "When we're all dead and buried and our children's children are reflecting upon what was the best thing the Labor Government in N.S.W. did in the 20th century, they'll all come up with the answer that we saved the rainforests."
+In geographic terms the Border Ranges National Park falls into three sections - the eastern, ex Wiangarie State Forest section, the central, Richmond Gap section and the western, ex Roseberry State Forest section. Based on a recent week's walking in the park, and a number of previous visits, Jim Somerville and I are recommending a management plan for the Park. The Wiangarie section includes the Tweed Range, which provides magnificent views of the Tweed Valley caldera with Mount Warning at its centre. There are walking tracks on Grady's Creek and Brindle Creek giving access to unlogged rainforest and a large stand of Antarctic Beech. There are camping and picnic areas in the rainforest on the range and another camping area at Sheepstation Creek, in the eucalypt forest below. Access is by the well maintained forest road. Probably the most interesting feature of the central section is the border loop on the Sydney-Brisbane railway below Richmond Gap.
+[ Map: Border Ranges National Park ]
+The Roseberry section is accessible only on foot, the Queensland side of the Range being privately owned. We believe it should be retained as a wilderness area - i.e. no vehicular access. We approached it by climbing the ridge west of Findon Creek and came back on the ridge east of the creek. Most of Lever's Plateau is unlogged. The rainforest canopy is very high and there is little understorey. It contains the last substantial stand of hoop pine and some of the largest remaining specimens of carabeen, cedar, strangler fig and other rainforest species. There are magnificent views of the western McPherson Range, including Mounts Lindesay and Barney and the Logan Valley.
+Off-track walking in rainforests is not strongly recommended, but there is good access along the track next to the border fence, and a good deal of interesting exploration could be done. I have walked the western "Scenic Rim" from Cunningham's Gap to Mount Lindesay, not along the crest, which is very broken, but along the upper Logan valley with climbs of the main peaks. It is beautiful walking country, and it is possible that one day a walking track will be constructed which will avoid the arduous climbing now required to negotiate the range.
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-Page 4 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER June, 1986.
 COLO - RIFIC.
 by Jim Brown.