April Cover and contents

FRONT COVER: Peery Lake, NSW
Photo: Richard T Kingsford

National Parks Journal

APRIL 2000 Vol 44 No 2

COVER STORY
Boom and bust on Peery Lake

FEATURES
Surveying Koalas
National parks laws - Vision or sell-out?
Dirty business:
   Soils and biodiversity
   Poison soils - good earth killing our estuaries
   Salt - more than the flavour of the month
   Salt - Together we can lick it

ACTIVITIES PROGRAM

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

REVIEWS

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National Parks Association Executive: Roger Lembit, President; Stephen Lord, Senior Vice-President; Anne Reeves, Junior Vice-President; Brian Everingham, Secretary; Kathy McCourt, Treasurer; Beth Michie, Mike Thompson, Pip Walsh, Vivien Clayphan-Dunne, Tom Fink.

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	Contents : Western Sydney at the Frontline by Noel Plumb, NPA Executive Officer Plans of Management for National Parks by Stephen Lord, NPA Senior Vice President
	NPA News NPA Head Office New Administrative Manager Survey manual reworked Profile – Beth Michie Macarthur Branch cleans up Southern Sydney Branch
	COVER STORY Boom and bust on Peery Lake by Richard T Kingsford
	ENVIRONMENT NEWS & ACTION Charcoal logging no go Kamay-Botany Bay Warrumbungle win Looking at weirs Cumberland Plain Woodland mapping Koala records wanted
	FEATURES Surveying Koala by Chris Allen National parks laws - Vision or sell-out? by Noel Plumb Dirty business: Soils and biodiversity by Greg Chapman Poison soils - good earth killing our estuaries by Duncan Leadbitter Salt - more than the flavour of the month by Julie Savage Salt - Together we can lick it by Gavin Wall
	ACTIVITIES PROGRAM The information in our activities program is given for the convenience of members and as information for interested bushwalkers. People contacting our volunteer leaders may be asked to quote their membership number or to produce their membership card. The walks program itself is not reproduced on this website. NPA Membership Benefits Important Information for Walkers NPA Branch Meetings NPA Year 2000 Lecture Series ON THE TRACK Colin Watson - AGL - Friend of the Century
	LETTERS TO THE EDITOR REVIEWS INDEX TO 1999 NATIONAL PARKS JOURNAL BACK COVER

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Editor: Glyn Mather

Journal Committee: Roger Lembit (ex officio) Stephen Lord Vivien Clayphan-Dunne
Beth Michie Noel Plumb

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