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• Newsletter number 30 (PDF 864 KB)

Welcome

…to this summer-autumn issue of “news from the alps”. This issue has a new look and a slightly different approach. This issue, while we’ve been asking people to give up their time for interviews, (apart from a few exceptions) no-one has been asked to write anything. So if you have something you think relevant and worth sharing with the broader Alps community, just send me an email or give me a call.

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• Newsletter number 31 (PDF – 934 KB)

Welcome

…to this winter-spring issue of news from the alps which is full of interviews, information and resources gathered together especially for anyone connected with the Australian Alps.

As well as the usual columns – news from around the alps, updates on programs, an international perspective, dates for the diary – we’ve focussed on a few topics of interest.

We report on various workshops and get togethers – post fire biodiversity, frontline, feral pigs and dogs. We also take a look at what the recent First People’s gathering represents and aims to achieve. We explore the philosophical issues behind the balance we try to maintain – between protecting the alps and encouraging appropriate visitor experiences – and because each issue is seasonal, we take an alps-wide look at cross country skiing.

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Newsletter number 26

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Australian Alps wins Tourism Award

The Australian Alps community awareness program has been recognised for its outstanding contribution to the tourism industry through an award received at the Canberra Region Tourism Awards 2001 ceremony in the category of “General Tourism Services”.

Odile Arman, Convenor of the Community Relations Working Group (CRWG), prepared the award submission, highlighting the Community Awareness Program. The program encompasses the activities that have led to the promotion of the Australian Alps as a premier tourist destination as well as raising awareness of the Australian Alps cooperative management program.

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Newsletter number 25

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Stop press … rising to the challenge

Recently the AALC and Working Group members met to discuss the implications of changed funding arrangements. Not surprisingly everyone turned their thoughts to a new model for the Alps Program.
In brief, the meeting agreed to:

• Retain opportunities for on-ground liaison;
• Continue to provide forums for best-practice land management;
• Maintain 3 – 4 Working Groups of discipline specialists plus short-term project Task Forces;
• Operate within $280K pa with additional agency funding for special projects eg. feral horses;
• Support Australian Alps IYM 2002 activities;
• Investigate complementary Alps plans of management; and
• Advertise for a Program Development Officer across all agencies.

Some of these actions are being implemented as this newsletter goes to press, with a Works Program Development meeting scheduled soon.

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Newsletter number 24

Tidbit’s..

Sharing the knowledge… research from the Australian Alps

Over the last year or so there have been a large number of outstanding natural heritage research projects funded by the Australian Alps Liaison Committee. In the interest of actively promoting this work, the Natural Heritage Working Group has initiated a travelling road show to highlight and promote the valuable contribution these projects have made to our ‘on ground’ management of the Australian Alps national parks. The travelling road show will consist of two one day presentations of the projects and their key outcomes and will be made at Jindabyne and Bright on Tuesday 14 and Thursday 16 November 2000 respectively.

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Newsletter number 23

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First Annual Meeting of the Australian Institute of Alpine Studies

The first annual meeting of the Australian Institute of Alpine Studies was held at Jindabyne on 9/12/99. It was a largely informal get together of people currently working on research projects in the Alps. Graeme Enders (acting Regional Manager, Snowy Mountains Region) welcomed everyone and then followed 19 scheduled talks. Dr. Catherine Pickering spoke on the Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism, Subprogram in Mountain Tourism at Griffith University. This was followed by four sessions dealing with pest species, botany, zoology and human impacts.

The talks are summarised in the newsletter of the AIAS (available on the AIAS website at http://www.aias.org.au/ ). About 50 people attended the meeting, the main aim and value of which was to discover what everyone was doing and to make links between researchers doing similar projects – or dissimilar projects but with equipment, field sites etc that could be shared. As such it was a great success with a high degree of cross fertilisation of ideas with the venue becoming very much a research hybrid zone.

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