for minimal impact recreation activities and two areas are not widely known simple visitor facilities. Appropriate fire compared with parks like Port Campbell or regimes will be determined and adopted. Wilsons Promontory, but they have very high value for nature conservation, and they offer Camping, picnic and walking areas at good opportunities for low-key recreation Bailey’s Rocks in Dergholm State Park will such as nature study, walking and camping. be upgraded, scenic drives developed, and Their remoteness and lack of disturbance are information for visitors provided. Visitor also qualities that are increasingly valued facilities will not be provided in the Tooan today, especially in countries that do not have block, but walking and nature study are the spaciousness and relatively small appropriate activities there. (There are population of Australia. already visitor facilities in the popular Mt Arapiles section of the Park, which has a The Parks protect significant natural vegetation separate Management Plan.) communities such as Clay Heath and Yellow Gum and Pink Gum Woodlands, and habitat These Parks protect important parts of for significant fauna such as Red-tailed Black- Victoria’s natural and cultural heritage. I look Cockatoos, Red-necked Wallabies, Bush forward to the community’s support in Stone- Curlews, Swift Parrots, Painted looking after them for the future. Honeyeaters and Brush-tailed Phascogales. Programs outside the Parks such as enhancing habitat will be encouraged. Parks should not be seen as isolated islands, separate from the surrounding area. Marie Tehan MP Under this Plan, most of Dergholm State Minister for Park and the Tooan Block of Mt Conservation and Land Tooan State Park will be managed to protect Management sensitive natural environments and provide
two areas are not widely known compared with parks like Port Campbell or Wilsons Promontory, but they have very high value for nature conservation, and they offer good opportunities for low-key recreation such as nature study, walking and camping. Their remoteness and lack of disturbance are also qualities that are increasingly valued today, especially in countries that do not have the spaciousness and relatively small population of Australia. The Parks protect significant natural vegetation communities such as Clay Heath and Yellow Gum and Pink Gum Woodlands, and habitat for significant fauna such as Red-tailed Black- Cockatoos, Red-necked Wallabies, Bush Stone- Curlews, Swift Parrots, Painted Honeyeaters and Brush-tailed Phascogales. Programs outside the Parks such as enhancing habitat will be encouraged. Parks should not be seen as isolated islands, separate from the surrounding area. Under this Plan, most of Dergholm State Park and the Tooan Block of Mt State Park will be managed to protect sensitive natural environments and provide for minimal impact recreation activities and simple visitor facilities. Appropriate fire regimes will be determined and adopted. Camping, picnic and walking areas at Bailey’s Rocks in Dergholm State Park will be upgraded, scenic drives developed, and information for visitors provided. Visitor facilities will not be provided in the Tooan block, but walking and nature study are appropriate activities there. (There are already visitor facilities in the popular Mt Arapiles section of the Park, which has a separate Management Plan.) These Parks protect important parts of Victoria’s natural and cultural heritage. I look forward to the community’s support in looking after them for the future. Marie Tehan MP Minister for Conservation and Land Management Tooan