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Bimberi Reserve
in the
Snowy Mountains National Park

14 January 2003

A Tour of the Area by Andrew Stoner MP, Shadow Minister for Emergency Services, Peter Webb MP, Member for the Monaro, Katrina Hodgkinson, MP, Member for Burrinjuck and Peter Cochran, Yaouk, Adaminaby.


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Peter Cochran, former Member for the Monaro and former Cooma Fire Control Officer and a member of the Yaouk Brigade, drove the party of concerned State politicians around parts of the Snowy Mountains a week before bushfires passed through the area in late January 2003

Katrina Hodgkinson MP Member for Burrinjuck compares the lush grass in the National Park with the drought conditions of most of Eastern Australia with Andrew Stoner MP, Shadow Minister for Emergency Services and Peter Cochran

Peter Webb MP, Member for Monaro, Katrina Hodgkinson MP, Member for Burrinjuck and Andrew Stoner MP, Shadow Minister for Emergency Services enjoying the rare site of lush grass in a year of unprecedented drought. This area was burnt out one week later.

The Tour arrives at the Bimberi Reserve

Bimberi Wilderness
Management of wilderness aims to protect large natural areas and the functioning of their ecosystems with a minimum of human interference – and provide opportunities for self-reliant recreation

Murrumbidgee at Yaouk Camp

Peter Webb MP, Andrew Stoner MP, Katrina Hodgkinson MP and Peter Cochran whose property, Yaouk, is not far from here.

Oldfield's Hut, built in the 1890s, is a heritage listed property which was saved by the Yaouk Bushfire Brigade when the bushfires passed through this area in late Jan 2003

Oldfield's Hut

Visiting the Hut

Katrina is amazed at the amount of dry vegetation.

Fallen gum tree limbs, shedding bark and leaf litter! Peter Cochran estimates 50 tonnes of vegetable litter per hectare within the Snowy Mountains National Park.

The amount of combustible material is appalling!

  

Rendezvous with a helicopter to take the group to view the Mountains and see the fire fighting on Mt Morgan.

Katrina reported that what they had seen close at hand at Bimberi Reserve was repeated in the areas the Helicopter took the group.
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