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with the mountain ridges of the Tidbinbilla and Brindabella Ranges provide the middle and distant landscape backdrop to the National Capital. A major feature of the Territory is Namadgi National Park. Namadgi National Park forms part of the regional system of alpine parks of south‑east Australia (the Australian Alps National Parks) and provides a secure, long‑term semi‑wilderness backdrop to the National Capital, and one which increasingly will become nationally and internationally known as a feature of the city.
In the Tidbinbilla/Paddy's River area there are development opportunities which take advantage of its location on tourist routes and its proximity to Canberra. The area's diverse natural, cultural and rural resources can provide a rich setting for additional tourist uses, and there is scope for the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve to continue to develop as a major Australian fauna display on the doorstep of the National Capital.

3.2.6.2 Principle for Mountains and Bushland
The Mountains and Bushland area is to be maintained as an important visual background to the National Capital; to protect both its nature conservation values, and Canberra's existing and future water supply, and to develop appropriate National Capital and tourist uses, particularly in the Tidbinbilla/Paddy's River area.

3.2.6.3 Policies for Mountains and Bushland
 1.        The water resource, nature conservation, cultural and wilderness values of Namadgi National Park are to be maintained and protected for public appreciation, research, education, natural resource based recreation, and water supply to the National Capital.
 2.       The Cotter and Gudgenby catchments should be managed to protect the water supply to the National Capital in a manner consistent with their nature conservation values. The quality of water supply in the Cotter catchment is to be assured primarily by controls over catchment uses.
 3.        The area comprising Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve, Bullen Range, Paddy's River, and Gibraltar Creek should be used for appropriate National Capital and tourist uses consistent with protection of the area's natural, cultural and rural resources. This area should be protected and used as an important transition and open space system linking urban Canberra and the remote mountain and bushland area.
 4.       The North Cotter area should be planned and managed in a manner consistent with Namadgi National Park in terms of protection for nature conservation and water supply requirements, with the additional potential of use for low to medium intensity recreation.
 5.        The Tennant area should be planned and managed to protect its long term use as the location for an additional water supply reservoir for the National Capital. Interim use for rural and nature conservation purposes is to be permitted with steeper slopes progressively revegetated to protect and enhance the area's future role as a water supply catchment.
 6.         Urban development may be limited