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PEARN J. (1977). **The Clinical Features of Tick Bite.** //Medical Journal of Australia.// | PEARN J. (1977). **The Clinical Features of Tick Bite.** //Medical Journal of Australia.// | ||
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RUSSELL R.C., S.L. DOGGETT, R. MUNRO, J. ELLIS, D. AVERY, C. HUNT, and D. DICKESON. (1994). **Lyme disease: A search for the causative agent in ticks in southeastern Australia.** // | RUSSELL R.C., S.L. DOGGETT, R. MUNRO, J. ELLIS, D. AVERY, C. HUNT, and D. DICKESON. (1994). **Lyme disease: A search for the causative agent in ticks in southeastern Australia.** // | ||
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- | **//About the author//**: Stephen Doggett is with the Department of Medical Entomology, University of Sydney & ICPMR, Westmead Hospital, Westmead NSW 2145. In November 1997 Stephen gave a talk about Ticks and other little things that bite to the SBW at the Kirribilli clubrooms. Stephen also can be reached via the Internet on E-mail < | ||
- | SOCIAL NIGHT: 28 JAN. 1998 | + | **//About the author//**: Stephen Doggett is with the Department of Medical Entomology, University of Sydney & ICPMR, Westmead Hospital, Westmead NSW 2145. In November 1997 Stephen gave a talk about Ticks and other little things that bite to the SBW at the Kirribilli clubrooms. Stephen also can be reached via the Internet on E-mail < |
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+ | =====SOCIAL NIGHT: 28 JAN. 1998===== | ||
At the clubroom: Alan Norman, senior NP&WS ranger based at Ulladulla south of Nowra will talk on wilderness and national parks management from the ranger' | At the clubroom: Alan Norman, senior NP&WS ranger based at Ulladulla south of Nowra will talk on wilderness and national parks management from the ranger' | ||
- | SOCIAL NIGHT: 18 FEB. 1998 | + | |
- | Three round trips made by car in 1997 in Ireland, the south of England and New England, USA will feature in a slide presentation by Elwyn Mortis. | + | =====SOCIAL NIGHT: 18 FEB. 1998===== |
- | 4000 BC to 1500 AD, some English villages, and a couple of Arnerican | + | |
+ | Three round trips made by car in 1997 in Ireland, the south of England and New England, USA will feature in a slide presentation by Elwyn Morris | ||
For those who would like to know how to cut travel costs to about $A50 per person per day for everything including airfares, Elwyn is giving a U3A course on Budget Travel in the First World at McMahons Point Community Centre from 2PM to 4PM every second Tuesday, starting on 17 February. | For those who would like to know how to cut travel costs to about $A50 per person per day for everything including airfares, Elwyn is giving a U3A course on Budget Travel in the First World at McMahons Point Community Centre from 2PM to 4PM every second Tuesday, starting on 17 February. | ||
- | CLUB COOLANA There is still plenty | + | |
- | of opportunity to assist with the Coolana maintenance in the January - February period. The Coolana dates are 17118 Jan., 31Jan/1 Feb., 14115 Feb. and 28 Feb./1 Mar. Gardening tools are still need at Coolana and the management and staff of Club Coolana would be happy with your cast offs. Some rakes, spades, shovels, clippers, secateurs, wheel barrow, lawn mower, whipper-snipper, | + | =====CLUB COOLANA===== |
- | NAME, ADDRESS & PHONE NUMBER CHANGES: Changes to | + | |
- | name, address or phone numbers should be sent to Membership Secretary: Barry Wallace. Don't delay details must be in by the end of January | + | There is still plenty of opportunity to assist with the Coolana maintenance in the January - February period. The Coolana dates are 17/18 Jan., 31 Jan/1 Feb., 14/15 Feb. and 28 Feb./1 Mar. Gardening tools are still needed |
- | 1998. | + | |
- | Looking Back - From Seven to | + | =====NAME, ADDRESS & PHONE NUMBER CHANGES:===== |
- | Seventy Years. by Frank Rigby. At the | + | |
- | age of seventy years Frank Rigby has looked back on his life and written a series of personal anecdotes. Frank' | + | //Changes to name, address or phone numbers should be sent to Membership Secretary: Barry Wallace. Don't delay details must be in by the end of January |
- | A Happy and Prosperous New Year to all. | + | 1998.// |
- | The Sydney Bushwalker, January 1998 page 11 | + | |
- | NPWS draft NATURE, TOURISM & RECREATION STRATEGY. a review | + | =====Looking Back - From Seven to Seventy Years===== |
+ | by Frank Rigby. | ||
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+ | At the age of seventy years Frank Rigby has looked back on his life and written a series of personal anecdotes. Frank' | ||
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+ | =====NPWS draft NATURE, TOURISM & RECREATION STRATEGY. a review===== | ||
by Keith Muir. | by Keith Muir. | ||
- | introduction | + | |
+ | **Introduction** | ||
The NPWS Draft Nature Tourism and Recreation Strategy is a program for major change to national park management designed to benefit the tourism industry and make parks pay their way. | The NPWS Draft Nature Tourism and Recreation Strategy is a program for major change to national park management designed to benefit the tourism industry and make parks pay their way. | ||
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Rather than managing NSW protected areas primarily for nature conservation, | Rather than managing NSW protected areas primarily for nature conservation, | ||
- | * page numbers in the Draft Strategy | + | * //page numbers in the Draft Strategy// |
- | Restructuring parks for profit | + | |
- | National parks are seen as having the potential to greatly increase tourist spending in NSW. There are currently 22 million visitors to NSW parks each year but this is predicted to rise to 32. million by 2005 under the Strategy (p20). In seeking increased revenue, the NPWS will sell their " | + | **Restructuring parks for profit** |
- | protected area or where existing planning processes have proposed the need for accommodation." | + | |
+ | National parks are seen as having the potential to greatly increase tourist spending in NSW. There are currently 22 million visitors to NSW parks each year but this is predicted to rise to 32 million by 2005 under the Strategy (p20). In seeking increased revenue, the NPWS will sell their " | ||
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+ | Stage One of the plan is timed to be " | ||
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+ | **Development within national parks** | ||
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+ | The NPWS policy of "no new accommodation structures within protected areas" (p69) will be swept aside by: " | ||
+ | protected area or //where existing planning processes have proposed the need for accommodation//." (emphasis added) (p69). If adopted, this means that built accommodation will be provided where it is considered commercially viable (park privatisation). In the Warrumbungles National Park, for example, cabin developments have been proposed (p104). | ||
Existing structures in national parks will also be utilised for accommodation and other purposes to support tourism (p54). | Existing structures in national parks will also be utilised for accommodation and other purposes to support tourism (p54). | ||
- | More commercial tourism and high impact recreation | + | |
- | The NPWS licences 162 commercial tour operators in protected areas but this is only a fraction of the actual number and does not include coach tours (p32). Under the draft Strategy, commercial tour businesses will be helped by a system that will "lead to further licensed commercial tour opportunities within protected areas" (p9). This help will include advertising commercial tour opportunities, | + | **More commercial tourism and high impact recreation** |
- | is Toyota) and developing " | + | |
+ | The NPWS licences 162 commercial tour operators in protected areas but this is only a fraction of the actual number and does not include coach tours (p32). Under the draft Strategy, commercial tour businesses will be helped by a system that will "lead to further licensed commercial tour opportunities within protected areas" (p9). This help will include advertising commercial tour opportunities, | ||
partnerships" | partnerships" | ||
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The NPWS will broaden the range of experiences in national parks for all visitors including the mass tourism markets and " | The NPWS will broaden the range of experiences in national parks for all visitors including the mass tourism markets and " | ||
- | Stage One of the plan is timed to be " | + | |
- | Development within national parks | + | **Restructuring park finances** |
- | The NPWS policy of "no new accommodation structures within protected areas" (p69) will be swept aside by: " | + | |
- | The Sydney Bush Walkers, founded 1927. | + | The implementation of the Strategy' |
- | Restructuring park finances | + | |
- | The implementation of the Strategy' | + | Internal NPWS funds will be realigned to reinvest in " |
- | Page 12 The Sydney Bushwalker, January 1998 | + | |
- | environments of decreasing funding" | + | **NPWS staff as tourist managers** |
- | Internal NPWS funds, will be realigned to reinvest in " | + | |
- | NPWS staff as tourist managers | + | |
Staff will be recruited with business, financial and management skills and existing senior management will be trained in " | Staff will be recruited with business, financial and management skills and existing senior management will be trained in " | ||
marketing..." | marketing..." | ||
- | Competing with other States | + | |
- | Despite the already high visitor numbers relative to the rest of Australia, NSW is claimed to be lagging behind other States who " | + | **Competing with other States** |
- | Queensland (Hinchinbrook resort) and | + | |
+ | Despite the already high visitor numbers relative to the rest of Australia, NSW is claimed to be lagging behind other States who " | ||
Tasmania (Tarkine road). | Tasmania (Tarkine road). | ||
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In NSW, visitor desires, determined by stakeholder surveys etc., will be big influences on how parks are managed (a demand driven ideology). " | In NSW, visitor desires, determined by stakeholder surveys etc., will be big influences on how parks are managed (a demand driven ideology). " | ||
- | Parks targeted for development | + | |
- | Parks in 15 regions will become prime tourist destinations through increased marketing and the identification, | + | **Parks targeted for development** |
- | of visitor facilities and commercial opportunities. These 15 regions are labelled in the Strategy as "key regional destinations proposed to be improved to " | + | |
- | Parks in "key destination" | + | Parks in 15 regions will become prime tourist destinations through increased marketing and the identification, |
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+ | Parks in "key destination" | ||
Other parks, such as Barrington Tops and Myall Lakes will be marketed on a regional level for the domestic tourism market. (p58) | Other parks, such as Barrington Tops and Myall Lakes will be marketed on a regional level for the domestic tourism market. (p58) | ||
- | Relationship to the NPWS Draft Access Strategy | + | |
+ | **Relationship to the NPWS Draft Access Strategy** | ||
The Draft Tourism Strategy is a far more detailed and unambiguous program for change compared to its companion, the draft Access Strategy. This earlier policy document, which created expectations for more vehicular and other high impact access to national parks, will be rolled into this strategy (p13). Input to the Access Strategy will also be used for developing the final Nature Tourism and Recreation Strategy (p13). | The Draft Tourism Strategy is a far more detailed and unambiguous program for change compared to its companion, the draft Access Strategy. This earlier policy document, which created expectations for more vehicular and other high impact access to national parks, will be rolled into this strategy (p13). Input to the Access Strategy will also be used for developing the final Nature Tourism and Recreation Strategy (p13). | ||
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- | management | + | **" |
- | Greatly increased input from "key stakeholders" | + | |
- | A Happy and Prosperous New Year to all. | + | Greatly increased input from "key stakeholders" |
- | The Sydney Bushwalker, January 1998 page 13 I | + | |
- | interested in high'impact use and profit rather | + | **Categorising parks for recreational State.** |
- | than nature conservation. | + | |
- | Categorising parks for recreational State. | + | NSW parks will be categorised using a " |
- | opportunities habitat and the ensuing extinction of species. | + | |
- | and Victoria (p43). | + | |
The ROS has the potential of allowing parks to move up the scale to a category allowing more development. | The ROS has the potential of allowing parks to move up the scale to a category allowing more development. | ||
- | Existing park access and facilities adequate There are currently 2136km of public access roads, 13341an of walking tracks, 158 camping grounds, 400 picnic areas, 115 lookouts and, 57 visitor centres in NSW national parks. (p20). | + | |
- | , A further | + | **Existing park access and facilities adequate** |
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+ | There are currently 2136km of public access roads, 13341an of walking tracks, 158 camping grounds, 400 picnic areas, 115 lookouts and, 57 visitor centres in NSW national parks. (p20). | ||
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+ | A further | ||
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+ | **Environment** | ||
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+ | NSW National Parks make up about 5% of the State. There is a world-wide trend in loss of habitat and the ensuing extinction of species. Globally Australia is one of only 12 mega-diverse countries that account for 75% of the world' | ||
The Strategy states that " | The Strategy states that " | ||
- | This document dated December 1997 was prepared by Keith Muir of the Total Environment Centre. For more information contact Keith on (02) 9241 2702, or SBW Conservation Secretary Bill Holland on (02) 9484 6636. | + | |
- | Trek the light %Meath! | + | //This document dated December 1997 was prepared by Keith Muir of the Total Environment Centre. For more information contact Keith on (02) 9241 2702, or SBW Conservation Secretary Bill Holland on (02) 9484 6636.// |
- | For the first time ever, we are offering special light-pack trips. We provide lightweight equipment plus all meals. You bring yourself, your clothes, a good pair of walking shoes and we'll show you places that you could not have seen before without carrying a full pack. | + | |
- | 8 kg or less. We even offer trips where you need no more than a day pack. | + | =====FOOTNOTES===== |
- | We offer only three dry season light-pack trips in Kakadu, two in the Kimberley and two elsewhere in the Top End. Don't miss out. Ask for our new brochure. | + | **by Patrick James** |
- | Willis' | + | |
- | 12 Carrington St ' | + | What a Christmas party. Perfect weather, few if any mozzies. A turn-up of about 120 to 130 members; a huge crowd by SBW standards, some 25% of the membership. A wide and satisfying selection of food representing the wide and varied culinary imagination of bushwalkers.. The food was complimented by two types of wine (red and white), orange juice and beer. Plenty of people to talk to and possibly to talk about. A happy-way to end off a busy anniversary year. There was some confusion about the starting time. Oops, sorry about that. |
- | Page 14 The Sydney Bush-walker, | + | |
- | FOOTNOTES | + | The recent bushfires in the Kangaroo Valley did not affected Coolana as George Gray reported last month and others have confirmed. Coolana still needs maintenance; |
- | The recent bushfires in the Kangaroo Valley did not affected Coolana as George Gray reported last month and others have confirmed. Coolana still need maintenance; | + | |
With hot summer nights and hotter summer days heat exhaustion, dehydration and bushfires are top of the worry list. See next column. | With hot summer nights and hotter summer days heat exhaustion, dehydration and bushfires are top of the worry list. See next column. | ||
- | EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST | ||
- | May/June 1998: Advance planning has started for a three week SBW walk in the Isdell River area, Kimberley WA. This is one of the most beautiful walking areas in Australia. This walk will be custom designed by Willis' | ||
- | $1,800. ex Kununarra., Interested? Contact Frances Holland , on 9484 '. 636 (business and after hours). | ||
- | Walking in N.S.W. National Parks | ||
- | A quite walk in a National Park may well becqme a thing of the Past like silent movies and 12 inch LP records and the many other casualties of modern living. A walk may entail dodging 4WD vehicles enjoying the quiet solitude of the Australian bush or slaloming around horse shit left as a cultural reminded of equality of access to all. A quite walk may also entail having a copy.. of your $zillion dollar public liability insurance with you at all times. At the December general meeting a motion was passed: | ||
- | that it is SBW pOlicy that all activities comply with NP&W,S directions in regard to the closure of National Parks. If the park is open it's fine, if the park is closed we CANNOT walk in it. No, insurance-policy will cover illegal acts. | ||
- | A Happy and ProspeExtracts from the SBW First Aid Notes. | ||
- | HYPERTHERMIA (HEAT EXHAUSTION) (too hot). Included here are severe sunburn, heat exhaustion and heat stroke. For sunburn see burns below. Heat stress is an elevated body temperature and occurs when the body can no longer control its temperature by sweating.. It can occur on bushwalks when the temperature is high, the humidity is high, wearing too much clothing, strenuous walking such as climbing. Heat stroke is extreme heat exhaustion. | ||
- | Signs & Symptoms Headache, dizziness, feeling hot, exhausted but restless, muscular cramps, fast and shallow breathing, skin pale and clammy, pulse rapid and weak. | ||
- | Treatment Remove casualty to a cool or cooler place in the shade. remove as much clothing as possible, however there is no need to strip naked! Sponge down with cool water. Give plenty to drink; many small amounts in place of a few large amounts. Seek medical attention. | ||
- | DEHYDRATION This can occur under strenuous exercise in hot weather or as the result of vomiting or diarrhoea. If you are experiencing cramps or headache you are probably dehydrated and may need to drink a litre or two of water to "catch up". The body can lose two litres of water in the first hour of strenuous activity and one litre per hour. subsequently. It is very difficult to drink enough to make up for this rate of liquid loss. It is important to realise that not feeling thirsty- is not always a good indication of your body's need for water. Somebody who needs to drink a litre of water may feel their thirst is satisfied after a few sips. Encourage a suspected dehydration patient to drink copiously. Treat by re-hydration with water or weak tea, and refrain from excessive quantities of tea, coffee, soft drink, beer, etc. as these are diuretic, i e. they cause the body to excrete water. For vomiting and diarrhoea do not give solid food until the casualty has stabilised, that is within 12 hours (or overnight) being able to retain liquids. If not stable continue re-hydration and consider giving simple, easily digested foods, seek medical assistance. Mild dehydration is usually experienced on mOst summer walks. The sign is that one's urine appears to be more concentrated. Drink plenty of water. | ||
- | rous New Year to all. | ||
+ | =====EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST===== | ||
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+ | May/June 1998: Advance planning has started for a three week SBW walk in the Isdell River area, Kimberley WA. This is one of the most beautiful walking areas in Australia. This walk will be custom designed by Willis' | ||
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+ | **Walking in N.S.W. National Parks** | ||
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+ | A quiet walk in a National Park may well become a thing of the past like silent movies and 12 inch LP records and the many other casualties of modern living. A walk may entail dodging 4WD vehicles enjoying the quiet solitude of the Australian bush or slaloming around horse shit left as a cultural reminded of equality of access to all. A quiet walk may also entail having a copy of your $zillion dollar public liability insurance with you at all times. At the December general meeting a motion was passed: | ||
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+ | //That it is SBW policy that all activities comply with NP&W,S directions in regard to the closure of National Parks.// | ||
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+ | If the park is open it's fine, if the park is closed we **CANNOT** walk in it. No, insurance policy will cover illegal acts. | ||
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+ | =====Extracts from the SBW First Aid Notes.===== | ||
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+ | **HYPERTHERMIA (HEAT EXHAUSTION) (too hot).** | ||
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+ | Included here are severe sunburn, heat exhaustion and heat stroke. For sunburn see burns below. Heat stress is an elevated body temperature and occurs when the body can no longer control its temperature by sweating. It can occur on bushwalks when the temperature is high, the humidity is high, wearing too much clothing, strenuous walking such as climbing. Heat stroke is extreme heat exhaustion. | ||
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+ | **Signs & Symptoms** Headache, dizziness, feeling hot, exhausted but restless, muscular cramps, fast and shallow breathing, skin pale and clammy, pulse rapid and weak. | ||
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+ | **Treatment** Remove casualty to a cool or cooler place in the shade. remove as much clothing as possible, however there is no need to strip naked! Sponge down with cool water. Give plenty to drink; many small amounts in place of a few large amounts. Seek medical attention. | ||
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+ | **DEHYDRATION** | ||
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+ | This can occur under strenuous exercise in hot weather or as the result of vomiting or diarrhoea. If you are experiencing cramps or headache you are probably dehydrated and may need to drink a litre or two of water to "catch up". The body can lose two litres of water in the first hour of strenuous activity and one litre per hour subsequently. It is very difficult to drink enough to make up for this rate of liquid loss. It is important to realise that not feeling thirsty is not always a good indication of your body's need for water. Somebody who needs to drink a litre of water may feel their thirst is satisfied after a few sips. Encourage a suspected dehydration patient to drink copiously. Treat by re-hydration with water or weak tea, and refrain from excessive quantities of tea, coffee, soft drink, beer, etc. as these are diuretic, i.e. they cause the body to excrete water. For vomiting and diarrhoea do not give solid food until the casualty has stabilised, that is within 12 hours (or overnight) being able to retain liquids. If not stable continue re-hydration and consider giving simple, easily digested foods, seek medical assistance. Mild dehydration is usually experienced on most summer walks. The sign is that one's urine appears to be more concentrated. Drink plenty of water. |
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