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Human Impact on the Arapiles/Tooan State Park |
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15-May-2010 7:45:53 AM
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I do mapping work locally and the aerials from the 40's are an eye opener - not a stick of vegetation on the front half of the mountain, from the rock to the road. It's amazing how things will come back given a chance.
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15-May-2010 8:32:29 AM
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On 10/05/2010 scarecrow wrote:
>Hi There,
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>I'm doing a report on human impact on the national park at Araps for my
>Year 12 Outdoor Education
Lucky you, I have just finished a similar assignment but i didnt get to choose Araps :(
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17-May-2018 6:14:07 PM
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On 10-May-2010 scarecrow wrote:
>Hi There,
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>I'm doing a report on human impact on the national park at Araps for my
>Year 12 Outdoor Education, just wondering if I could get some opinions,
>facts, anything from the Chockstone community.
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>Obviously there are two main areas of impact: Camping and Climbing.
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>So far I've got:
>Camping Impacts:
>- Paths/foot traffic
>- Litter/Glass (numbers of campers annually)
>- Camping numbers: wildlife noise
>- Tames wildlife
>- Waste produced, huge numbers of bins (no recycling)
>- Groundwater impact (toilets, bore water etc)
>- Fireplace modification/Firewood collection
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>Climbing Impact:
>- Cleaning routes
>- Peregrine Falcon nests, certain climbs etc
>- Other bird life being affected?
>- VCC and Cliffcare (Arapiles) track work and others
>- Bolts, chipped holds, pitons, chalk, chains, rap anchors etc.
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>So if anyone has some examples of the above or photos that you think would
>be of use, it would be a great help - PM or just reply on here, any discussion
>will be really useful!
hey mate im in year 12 at the moment and im doing exactly what you were doing, looking at the effects human impacts have had on Araps. just wondering if i could look at your work and reference the research that had taken place 8 years ago and how the park has developed compared to now.
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18-May-2018 12:12:55 PM
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On 17-May-2018 joeybonez wrote:
>hey mate im in year 12 at the moment and im doing exactly what you were
>doing, looking at the effects human impacts have had on Araps. just wondering
>if i could look at your work and reference the research that had taken
>place 8 years ago and how the park has developed compared to now.
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scarecrow has not logged in to this site for a fair period of time.
Good luck with the slim chance that scarecrow will read your post and respond to it...
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19-May-2018 9:39:44 PM
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Guy's name was apparently Will Scobie - could be this guy on Instagram... ...evidently given up climbing.
But in the 8 years since that post, based on my sporadic visits to the Mount, I'd say little has changed. Camping fees went up. Not sure if that put any extra funding back into the park though.
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20-May-2018 2:30:41 PM
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> Not sure if that put any extra funding back into the park though.
It sure hasn't fixed the broken/missing locks on the guys toilet doors in the Pines ;-)
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