Assorted documents relating to the return of grazing to Victorian alpine areas, fire management and history of cooperative management of the Australian Alps, 2000-2003

Containers:

Box 60 (MS 10563)

Component identifier:

File 918

Content Summary:

"Managing the Australian Alps: A history of cooperative management of the Australian Alps national parks" by Peter Crabb, 2003. Includes maps.

Business card for Matthew Peacock, Australian Broadcasting Commission journalist (7.30 Report).

Notes relating to proposed cloud-seeding in the Kosciusko area. Includes contact details for Matt Peacock.

Sheets, torn from small note-pad, with hand-written notes regarding proposed cloud-seeding in the Kosciusko area.

Newspaper clipping "Cloud seeding this Winter", from Town and Country Magazine.

"Alien plants in the Australian Alps" by F.M. Johnston and C.M. Pickering, 2001.

Manuscript of "Occurrence of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi across a range of alpine humus soil conditions in Kosciusko National Park, Australia" by S. Johnston and M. Ryan for Mountain Research and Development journal. 2000.

Correspondence and publications. Correspondents include Keith McDougall, Dane Wimbush, Roger Good, Alec Costin and John Thwaites, Minister for Environment, Victoria. Correspondence refers to proposal to return cattle grazing to the Victorian high country (also includes one annotation). Publications include "Aerial photographic interpretation of vegetation changes on the Bogong High Plains, Victoria, between 1936 and 1980" by Keith McDougall; "Fire ecology and management in Victorian alpine landscapes" by R.J. Williams, submission to Victorian Government Inquiry into the Bushfires of January 2003".

Immediate source of acquisition:

This large and diverse collection was compiled by Alec Costin then organised and catalogued by the eScholarship Research Centre at The University of Melbourne from 2017-2019. The collection was then transferred to the National Library of Australia in 2020.

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