Community campaigns for
Reserves in the Strzelecki Ranges
1900s
Campaign
for the reservation of the Bulga and Tarra Valley forests. These areas eventually become the
Tarra Bulga National Park. In 1982
part of Macks Creek Valley was added to the park. In 2004, a small addition was made.
1950s Campaign for the area near Yinnar
South. This became Morwell National Park.
1970s Campaign for Mt. Worth reserve. Mt. Worth becomes a State Park in 1984.
1980s
During
the Land Conservation Council investigation,
many groups pushed for further reserves in the Strzeleckis. These included a park in the Gunyah area of approximately 4,000
hectares, the proposed Mirboo North Regional park, Traralgon South, Gormandale,
Hazel park, Toora Tin Mine , Turtons Creek and extensions to Tarra Bulga
National park to create a park of 7,000 ha.
After the
LCC study finished, a campaign continued
to reserve areas at Gunyah.
In 1987 680 ha. at Gunyah
becomes the Gunyah
Rainforest Reserve.
A campaign
to reserve 750 ha. in the Womerra Creek Catchment was refused.
1990s:
1996 Ministerial protection called for the College Creek
area.
1998 A campaign to create a major
National Park in the Strzeleckis, of 30,000 ha, including the current 5,000 ha. of existing
reserves.
2002 The Strzelecki Working Group
proposes the establishment of high biodiversity ‘Core and Link’
areas (8,500 ha.) identified in
the Strzelecki Ranges
Biodiversity Study
be made a permanent reserve in line with Government commitments to ‘full
protection of all conservation areas in the Strzelecki Ranges’.
2003 The Strzelecki Working Group
proposes the reservation of all non leased State forest in the Strzelecki
Ranges.
2003 The
Friends of Tarra Bulga National Park call for an extended Strzelecki national
park in accordance with Recommendation 3.4 of the VNPA’s Nature
Conservation Review 2001.
