ZONES TABLE 2 MANAGEMENT ZONES AND Strategic directions OVERLAYS & CONSERVATION RECREATION REFERENCE AREA WILDERNESS EDUCATION RECREATION DEVELOPMENT 21 Reference Areas Sunset, Minook, Most of the Park Main visitor destinations. Outlet Creek and AREA/ (table 1). Galpunga, Mt Cowra, outside wilderness Wemen LOCATION Chinaman Flat, North zones. Education Areas Wyperfeld, South (table 1). Wyperfeld Wilderness Zones. Relatively undisturbed Large, essentially Important natural Sites with facility Area for VALUES representative land undisturbed values and scope for development in a education types and associated areas. recreation natural setting. purposes. vegetation. opportunities. Protect viable samples of Protect or enhance the Protect less sensitive Provide primarily for Provide primarily for GENERAL one or more land types essentially unmodified natural environments and high-use visitor nodes environmental MANAGEMENT that are relatively natural condition of the provide for sustainable with a concentration of education in a AIM undisturbed for area and, subject to that dispersed recreation recreation and/or relatively comparative study with protection and minimal activities and interpretation undisturbed area. similar land types interference to natural scale recreation facilities. elsewhere, by keeping processes, provide facilities without all human interference opportunities for significant impact on to the minimum solitude, inspiration natural processes. essential and ensuring as and appropriate self- far as practicable that reliant recreation. the only long-term change results from natural processes. Mallee Parks 9
TABLE 2 MANAGEMENT ZONES AND OVERLAYS ZONES Strategic directions REFERENCE AREA WILDERNESS CONSERVATION & RECREATION RECREATION DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AREA/ LOCATION 21 Reference Areas (table 1). Sunset, Minook, Galpunga, Mt Cowra, Chinaman Flat, North Wyperfeld, South Wyperfeld Wilderness Zones. Most of the Park outside wilderness zones. Main visitor destinations. Outlet Creek and Wemen Education Areas (table 1). VALUES Relatively undisturbed representative land types and associated vegetation. Large, essentially undisturbed areas. Important natural values and scope for recreation opportunities. Sites with facility development in a natural setting. Area for education purposes. GENERAL Protect viable samples of Protect or enhance the Protect less sensitive Provide primarily for Provide primarily for MANAGEMENT one or more land types essentially unmodified natural environments and high-use visitor nodes environmental AIM that are relatively undisturbed for comparative study with similar land types elsewhere, by keeping all human interference to the minimum essential and ensuring as far as practicable that the only long-term change results from natural processes. natural condition of the area and, subject to that protection and minimal interference to natural processes, provide opportunities for solitude, inspiration and appropriate recreation. provide for sustainable dispersed recreation activities and recreation facilities without significant impact on natural processes. with a concentration of recreation and/or interpretation facilities. education in a relatively undisturbed area. Mallee Parks 9 self- reliant scale