TABLE 3 INTERPRETIVE THEMES PLACE TOPICS FOR INTERPRETATION Big Old Grey Grass Trees Natural landscape Indigenous occupation Management of vegetation that has impacted on the natural landscape Curly Dog: reef workings, mine sites and puddlers Mining approaches in different mining eras Dargile* Changes in land uses over time Changes in community needs and attitudes to the environment Box–Ironbark flora and fauna Darrocks Rd, Scrubby Tk, Four Mile Rd Seasonal flora drive: especially noted for Goldfields Boronia and Whirrakee Wattle Graytown Social history of the region Spring Creek (Graytown) gold rush lives of the diggers Graytown Forestry Camp* Baileston charcoal kilns & forestry landscapes Role of timber industry in development of Victoria, forest work Government employment initiatives, from ‘susso’ work to Green Corps and REEP Graytown POW camp, immigrant camp Migration – gold rush, POWs, post-WW2 migration Changes in attitudes to migrants Heathcote Powder Magazine Indigenous occupation prior to settlement Gold rush and colonial governance Melvilles Lookout Goldfields mythology – bushrangers , e.g. Captain Melville Cultural landscape – Interactions between humans and the environment Mount Black Quarry Resource extraction for building the Goulburn weir. Mount Ida Geology, landscape, gold formation (e.g. link geology to the region’s unique Shiraz) Indigenous trading routes Spring Creek / Graytown landscape Box–Ironbark flora and fauna Large old trees, fauna refuges Denotes sites where Parks Victoria will provide interpretive services and/or materials. Inform visitors of the different roles of, and regulations applying to, the park and reserve, and the behaviours that are appropriate to conserve and protect cultural and natural values, and maximise visitor safety. Encourage visitors to adopt minimal impact techniques, and to adhere to the relevant regulations and codes of conduct appropriate to their activity. Regularly evaluate information and interpretive programs related to the planning area. Vehicle access The planning area has an extensive road network, both formed and unformed, that has been used historically for mineral and timber extraction. Major roads are in good condition, whereas tracks that are long unused and duplicate other routes are generally overgrown and difficult to discern on the ground. These latter tracks are no longer required for visitor use or management purposes. Allowing these unnecessary tracks to continue to grow over will substantially decrease the levels of day
APPENDIX 2 SUBMISSIONS ON DRAFT MANAGEMENT PLAN A total of 14 submissions were received on the Draft Management Plan during September-November 2006 — 10 from organisations and 4 from individuals — as follows. No submissions were marked confidential. ORGANISATION SUBMISSION NO. INDIVIDUALS SUBMISSION NO. Aboriginal Affairs Victoria 3 Vivienne Arnett-Dunlop 9 Bird Observers Club of Australia 6 Julie Monagle 10 Department of Human Services – Public Health Unit 14 Marion Riley 8 DSE – Threatened Species and Communities Unit 1 & 2 Manfred Ruff 11 Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority 7 North Central Catchment Management Authority 4 Orienteering Victoria 5 Trustees of the Graytown Public Cemetery 13 VicWalk 12