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STRATEGIES - Identify Noongar people having cultural links and on-going interests in Dryandra. In consultation with these people: • implement recommendations of the current review. If cultural activities, including hunting, are identified as being compatible with CALM objectives, permit such activities in Quinns Block. Consult with local Noongars, reserve neighbours and other relevant interest groups to determine the sustainability, safety considerations and monitoring requirements of any activities; and • provide opportunities for involvement in the management of Dryandra. For example, local Aboriginal people could be involved in: • assessing the condition of existing Aboriginal cultural sites and taking appropriate action to preserve them; • developing interpretive displays, community education programs and commercial tous incorporating the cultural history of the area; • researching past and contemporary Aboriginal use of Dryandra; and • anthropological and archaeological surveys of Dryandra. 2. Consult with the Department of Aboriginal sites prior to all major development proposals to ensure Aboriginal sites are protected. 27
10. EUROPEAN HERITAGE BACKGROUND European occupation in the Williams - Narrogin area was first recorded in the 1860s with the issuing of pastoral leases to early settlers. Sandalwood cutters, mallet bark strippers, and kangaroo and possum hunters also visited this area prior to the closer settlement associated with tillage leases (Pustkuchen 1981), During the earliest years of this century mallet forests were heavily utilised for tannins. The settlers needed capital to develop their farms and saw mallet as a means of supplementing their income. Mallet bark worth 859 pounds was exported from Western Australia in 1903. In 1905 a scientist, Dr Johannes Passler, delivered a lecture to the German Leather Industry in which he concluded '...that we have in Malletto Bark a tanning agent which in regard to tanning property, equals those hitherto known as the richest tanning substances such as Mangrove bark...' The bark became well sought after by countries with limited tanning sources. However, there were already concerns by the importers and the Western Australian Government that the '...tanning material will be exhausted.' (Paton 1988). After 1905, there was a steady decline in the volume of bark exports and by 1907 areas within payable distance of the Great Southern Railway were virtually cut out and harvesting had spread throughout the Great Southern District. The real danger of the species being cut out completely was reported as early as 1908 in the Annual Report of the Woods and Forests Department (Germantse 1987). By the mid 1920s, the shortage of mallet was acute whilst world demand for vegetable tannins remained high (Paton 1988). Following extensive surveys of land west of Cuballing, the first portions of Dryandra were reserved by the Forests Department in 1924 for the purpose of protecting natural mallet stands and establishing plantations. A house for a resident overseer and stables were erected at Lol Gray in 1925 and preparatory work for the establishment of mallet plantations commenced in 1926 (Forests Department 1926). During the depression years extensive areas of Dryandra were sown to mallet with the aid of sustenance workers. Forest Department staff were located at the Dryandra Settlement and additional outstations at Contine, Congelin, Montague and Highbury. The outstations were strategically located on the highest hills overlooking the mallet plantations and each had a fire tower. The overseer's wives performed the tower work, informing the staff at the Settlement of any fires within the vicinity of Dryandra. The fire tower at Lol Gray was restored by the WA Division of the Institute of Foresters of Australia in 1986. 28
Page 2 and 3: DRYANDRA WOODLAND MANAGEMENT PLAN 1
Page 4 and 5: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The planning team
Page 6 and 7: Map 1 Locality iv
Page 8 and 9: Mallet (a source of tannins) was a
Page 10 and 11: A range of access will continue to
Page 12 and 13: TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE _________
Page 14 and 15: PRINCIPAL MANAGEMENT DIRECTIONS 1.
Page 16 and 17: Map 2. Remnant Vegetation outside D
Page 18 and 19: Changes in Use and Management Since
Page 20 and 21: natural bush north of Narrogin sati
Page 22: 4. GEOLOGY, LANDFORMS AND SOILS BAC
Page 26 and 27: 3. The supply of domestic quality w
Page 28 and 29: • the exotic plant species along
Page 30 and 31: south coast national parks of Fitzg
Page 32 and 33: - Ensure that a record of the locat
Page 34 and 35: Twenty-four species of native mamma
Page 36 and 37: • The movement of biota between i
Page 38 and 39: CULTURAL RESOURCES 9. ABORIGINAL HE
Page 42 and 43: After 1959, the amount of mallet ba
Page 44 and 45: - Dryandra will be managed to attra
Page 46: 10. Retain all vehicle access to pr
Page 50 and 51: 1. Redesign, modify and manage recr
Page 52 and 53: STRATEGY 1. Ensure all buildings, e
Page 54 and 55: 1. Provide a variety of opportuniti
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Page 58 and 59: 1. Camping areas need to be shelter
Page 60 and 61: 13.6 SWIMMING BACKGROUND The Congel
Page 62 and 63: 2. Ensure orienteering, rogaining a
Page 64 and 65: 3. Exclude competitive horse riding
Page 66 and 67: as such, provides the area with a s
Page 68 and 69: 3. Encourage and facilitate commerc
Page 70 and 71: In Dryandra, natural mallet stands
Page 72 and 73: The inventory also revealed that ma
Page 74 and 75: LONG TERM VISION No bushland in agr
Page 76 and 77: 8. outline revegetation prescriptio
Page 78 and 79: 16. APICULTURE BACKGROUND Commercia
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Page 82 and 83: in contrast to Phytophthora and Arm
Page 84 and 85: the south-west. This is despite Dry
Page 86 and 87: - long-unburnt vegetation (fuel dat
Page 88 and 89: circumstances it is considered by C
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20. WEEDS BACKGROUND A weed is defi
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5. Remove exotic and non-local tree
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Feral animal biology and control is
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• The major roads in Dryandra wil
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6. Liaise with mining companies, go
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Programs will complement related th
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interest. The community benefits fr
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Inventory, research and monitoring
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Table 6. Summary of inventory, -res
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local authorities and Government de
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REFERENCES Australia ICOMOS (1988)
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Forests Department (198 1) Land use
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Saunders, D. A. (1989) Changes in t
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Conservation Codes R. Declared Rare
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Appendix 2 Crown Land outside the D
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