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	Organ Pipes National Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Organ Pipes is a national park in Victoria (Australia), 23 km northwest of Melbourne.
		The park was established in 1972 on what was then degraded farmland around the gully formed by Jackson's Creek in an attempt to reestablish an area of the indigenous vegetation of the district, which has been almost completely lost through farming and urban development.
		Sedimentary rock and fossils found in the park dates back 400 million years, an indication that the area was once a sea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Organ_Pipes_National_Park (323 words)

	Organ
		Organ Pipes National Park Organ Pipes is a national park in Melbourne.
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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/organ.html (396 words)

	Maribyrnong River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Organ Pipes National Park can be found on Jacksons Creek, near the Calder Freeway: a pleasant picnic site, and a unique display of basaltic columns geological formation so named because they look like organ pipes.
		Brimbank Park forms a huge amphitheatre in the bend in the river with picnic areas, cycle and walking trails, and a cafe, which reverberate with activity on weekends and public holidays.
		The river flows past Pipemakers Park at Maidstone and the Living Museum of the West which presents information on the history of the river and the early industrial history of the site.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maribyrnong_River (643 words)

	AustralianNationalParks.com Official Website
		Organ Pipes National Park is close to the Calder Highway, 20 km north-west of Melbourne.
		A set of basalt columns as straight and regular as organ pipes is the central feature of this 121 ha park in a deep gorge in the bare Keilor plains.
		The 'organ pipes' were formed about a million years ago when a massive lava flow, about 70 metres thick, spread over the plains from nearby volcanic hills.
	www.australiannationalparks.com /victoria/organpipes (705 words)

	geology
		he quartz and quartzite gravel found half way down from the car park to the Organ Pipes is part of a deep lead - an ancient stream bed buried by a lava flow, and later revealed by the downcutting of Jacksons Creek.
		Five hundred metres upstream of the Organ Pipes, overhanging the northern bank of the stream, is a large outcrop of basalt with a radial array of columns resembling the spokes of a giant wheel.
		The light coloured sedimentary rock downstream of the Organ Pipes was formed by the accumulation of rock fragments, sand, clay and mud under the sea into successive layers or sediments.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~foopnp/guide/geology.htm (657 words)

	Geo-organ-pipes
		Organ Pipes National Park: Excursion Guide - A site to help prepare and conduct a school excursion to the Organ Pipes.
		Heritage Case Study of Organ Pipes - Simple description of geology of organ pipes.
		Argues that the development of the park is unsympathetic to the presentation of the geological features.
	www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/fil/pages/listorganpine.html (317 words)

	Places of Interest
		Organ Pipes National Park is in the Melbourne Region.
		Bordered by Croajingalong National Park and one of the most important natural feature reserves in Australia, the inlet and surrounding waters are known for their abalone and oysters, which supplement the local economy.
		Some of the attractions of this historic town are a stone bridge constructed in 1867; a museum in the Barwon Hotel which records the local history; and Barwon Park which is a National Trust property where a 42-room bluestone mansion built in 1869 can be found.
	www.tourism.net.au /Victoria/Places_of_Interest.html (3998 words)

	natpark.txt
		Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve Box 74680, Fairbanks, AK 99707 (907) 456-0281 Jagged peaks, gentle arctic valleys, and numerous lakes characterize this park and preserve north of the Arctic Circle.
		Many lesser-known parks are historical areas, such as battlefields of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, forts along the routes of western exploration and migration, ruins of the dwelling places of pre-Columbian native peoples, and homes of Presidents and other men and women who contributed significantly to the nation's progress.
		National Colonial Farm, an agricultural-historical project of Accokeek Foundation, provides an exhibit and demonstration of agricultural methods, crops, and livestock of a modest tidewater farm of the mid-18th century.
	www.pueblo.gsa.gov /cic_text/travel/natpark/natpark.txt (13171 words)

	Organ Pipe National Park
		Organ Pipes National Park: Information From Answers.com - Organ Pipes National Park Organ Pipes is a national park in Victoria (Australia), 23 km northwest of Melbourne.
		Arizona - Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument - The Saguaro National Park is fairly similar to the Organ Pipe, the main differences being the types of cacti found there, but the latter has a heightened...
		Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (National Park Service) - Official NPS site.
	www.pianothings.com /organ-pipe-national-park.html (678 words)

	AllRefer.com - National Parks and Monuments (table) - Encyclopedia
		Proclaimed a national monument in 1961, a national historical park in 1971.
		Deep, narrow canyon of the Gunnison River, named for its dark-colored walls, which are always in shadow; designated a national park in 1999.
		Washington, D.C. Wooded preserve, one of the largest urban parks in the nation.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/NatlPkTABLE.html (3946 words)

	Arizona Park "Most Dangerous" in U.S.
		Though Organ Pipe is a backwater in the National Park system, it almost certainly leads the Park Service in number of backcountry stays.
		Many cross the border with expectations of quicker profits: Last year, Organ Pipe rangers seized some 13,000 pounds (4,850 kilograms) of marijuana, one-third of the total seized in all national parks and monuments combined.
		Before Eggle's death, Organ Pipes former chief ranger, Dale Thompson, realized that his rangers were outmanned and outgunned by the drug traffickers, with their growing infrastructure of communications and surveillance systems, automatic weapons, and even support from elements in the Mexican police and military.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/01/0110_030113_organpipeclynes.html (997 words)

	Walkabout - ArchiveAustralia - Travel
		The "organ pipes" after which the park is named are a remarkable basalt formation produced by the flow of molten lava across the Keilor Plains about a million years ago.
		After admiring the Organ Pipes from the lookout you can follow the creek around to the remarkable Rosette Rock, a formation produced after cooling lava formed a near perfect circle that looks like a rosette, with a radial display of basalt columns like the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
		Archival photos of the Jacksons Creek valley show the whole area densely infested with African boxthorn and artichoke thistle, to such an extent that the Organ Pipes and an exquisite lava formation called the Rosette Rock were inaccessible and nearly invisible.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/02/20/1077072830164.html (486 words)

	Aberdeen
		To the north-west of the town, a Public Recreation Park of 13 acres was laid out in 1872, at the cost of 3000 pound, with walks, grass, trees, shrubs, and flowers.
		The gas is made of cannel coal, and is sent through 71 miles of main pipes, which extend 5 miles from the works.
		The Music Hall, built in 1821 and 1859 at the cost of 16,500 pounds, has a front 90 feet long, with a portico of 6 Ionic pillars 30 feet high; large, highly-decorated lobbies and rooms; and a hall 150 feet long, 68 broad, and 50 high, with a flat ceiling, and galleries.
	www.1902-encyclopedia.com /A/ABE/aberdeen.html (5336 words)

	ORGAN PIPES NATIONAL PARK
		He and the group lobbied for transfer to the park of management authority over a property owned by City of Keilor, which was achieved in 1986 after much bureaucratic dithering, then organised three seasons of planting on the valley floor and gorge slopes.
		A small strip was removed from the frontage of all properties along the north side of the road, including the national park.
		Weed seeds blow in, and are brought in by birds and mammals, rabbits and foxes quickly repopulate the park after poisoning of the animals inside the boundary.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~foopnp/opnp.htm (2694 words)

	bat boxes intro
		Research in Organ Pipes National Park has shown the width of the entrance slit to be important in the colonisation of roost boxes by microbats, and what species inhabit them (Bender and Irvine, 2001).
		Further papers about the Organ Pipes project presented at the 1998 and 2000 ABS conferences aroused more interest, and a growing correspondence started with people elsewhere in Australia who were already conducting bat box projects or intending to get started and wanting advice.
		A launch of the initial kit produced was held in Morwell National Park in February 2001.
	www.csu.edu.au /.WWW/batcall/abs/inbox.htm (1217 words)

	International Travel News: Hidden jewels of Brazil's Minas Gerais. (column) @ HighBeam Research
		Nearby is the town of Teresopolis where you can visit the Organ-Pipes National Park with its strange mountain shapes, including Dedo de Deus (God's Finger) Peak.
		These two towns took part in national political movements of great importance and were prime leaders in the colonization of the state.
		The most impressive street is Ladeira de Santo Antonio, which winds up to the striking cathedral that often holds concerts played on its 18th-century organ of rococo design.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:10802979&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (1652 words)

	It's a bird's life :: ABC Melbourne
		Reports of Spiny-cheeked Honeyeaters at the Organ Pipes National Park, Golden-headed Cisticola and Little Grassbirds at Banyule Wetlands and Azure Kingfishers at Yarra Bend Park are just a few of the sightings listed on various websites devoted to birds and bird-watching - and that’s just for Melbourne.
		The sighting of a Pale-headed Rosella near Royal Park though, was deemed to be that of an escapee from the Zoo.
		So how can we provide suitable habitat for birds in our increasingly urban environments, parks, bush reserves, in our own backyards and wider communities?
	www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?http://www.abc.net.au/melbourne/stories/s1472184.htm (767 words)

	National Park Service - TOURISM
		Additional information about Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is on the Internet at www/nps.gov/orpi or call (520) 387-6849.
		Thirty-five miles south of Ajo, Arizona, Organ Pipe is a showcase for 26 species of cactus and many animals that have adapted to extreme temperatures, intense sunlight and rare rainfall.
		Adjacent to the U.S.-Mexican border, Organ Pipe is a year round great escape to the warmth and beauty of the Southwest.
	www.nps.gov /tourism/Summer2001en/sum20017gp.html (404 words)

	Tullamarine, Victoria
		Originally Tullamarine extended westwards to the Organ Pipes National Park, and the nearby area bounded by the Maribyrnong River, Jacksons Creek and Deep Creek was called Tullamarine Island because of the difficulties faced by inhabitants in getting across the watercourses during wet weather.
		Between 1967 and 1970 a freeway to the Airport was built, dividing Tullamarine from its eastern area, which is Gladstone Park.
		The eastern part is described under Gladstone Park.
	www.arts.monash.edu.au /ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/tullamarine.html (481 words)

	Bushducks - El Camino del Diablo, Arizona
		We rounded a corner on the edge of the Organ Pipes National Park to find a group of a dozen young men stringing themselves in a loose formation across the trail.
		Organ pipe cactus superficially resembles the organ pipes it is named after, standing up to twenty feet high with thick fleshy stems growing from a single point.
		Along its length, it travels through a National Wildlife Refuge, a National Park, within a mile of the international border with Mexico, and through the middle of a military live bombing range.
	bushducks.com /tripreps/camino.htm (1948 words)

	Green tree frog box
		This little fellow was found in a drum-design owl box in a park about 40m from a designated frog-breeding area.
		Green tree frogs, as the name suggests, live in trees, or at least they used to before a lot of the trees were replaced by downpipes.
		The boxes are made from a 250mm length of 90mm PVC stormwater pipe mounted vertically.
	users.bigpond.net.au /ozbox/frog_green_tree.htm (269 words)

	PSTOS - Oaks Park Roller Rink, Portland Oregon
		Following the donation of the park and organ to the City of Portland, a group was formed called "Friends of Oaks Park." This group organized various fund-raising activities which supported restoration of the Wurlitzer organ.
		The Oaks Park organ is based around a four-manual Wurlitzer from Portland's Broadway Theatre.
		According to Mary Pitts, the organ was removed from the rink in 1955 and went first to a roller rink at the Point Adams Army Base.
	www.pstos.org /instruments/or/portland/oakspark.htm (758 words)

	Walkabout - Keilor
		The entry road into Organ Pipes National Park (85 ha) heads east off the Calder Highway 8 km to the north-west of Keilor.
		The Rosette Rock in the Organ Pipes N.P. Fossils in the park's sedimentary rock date back 400 million years, indicating that the sea once covered this land.
		Flora in the park includes wallaby grass, variable spear grass, river red gum along the creek's banks, and acacias such as silver wattle, lightwood and bloodwoods, tel: 131 963.
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/VICKeilor.shtml (899 words)

	GunWeek.com
		Organ Pipes, for example, is rated as the worst park because of the heavy traffic in drug smuggling and illegal aliens.
		Visiting a national park used to be a family adventure, and about the worst that might happen would have been an unpleasant encounter with a bear that steals your food.
		Shenandoah National Park in Virginia has an “understaffed ranger workforce” that is “coping with a large number of armed poachers and encroaching suburban crime.” The PRL asserted that the ranger staff at Shenandoah “has been cut in violation of NPS policy, without public outcry or repercussions from Washington.”
	www.gunweek.com /2003/union0901.html (2142 words)

	National and state parks - Nature and wildlife - Macedon Ranges and Spa Country - visitvictoria.com
		A set of basalt columns often compared to organ pipes is the central feature of this park, set in a deep gorge on the bare Keilor plains.
		The state and national parks in Macedon Ranges and Spa Country each display a unique and varied range of landscapes — from rugged gorges to dramatic rock formations and stunning panoramic views.
		A wilderness park with rugged river gorges and spectacular scenery.
	www.visitvictoria.com /displayObject.cfm/ObjectID.00048E8B-6367-1F0A-A5F780C476A90000/vvt.vhtml (278 words)

	The Parklands Code
		The Parklands Code was adopted by more than 40 organisations in October 1995 as a single, sensible set of criteria which allows the reasonable use of parks without destroying their unique values.
		The public parks, gardens, bushland and open spaces of Melbourne are central to the cultural, recreational and sporting traditions of our city.
		The Parkland Principles were adopted in interim form at the Planning Crisis Conference convened in July 1996 by the Town and Country Planning Association.
	www.path.unimelb.edu.au /~bernardk/victoria/hoop/hoop_parkland_code.html (301 words)

	The Organ Pipes National Park
		This panorama was shot at the Organ Pipes National Park in Melbourne, Victoria.
		It is the smallest national park in Victoria, but what makes it unique was the work by volunteers, who had been vital in the restoration of flora and fauna of the park since 1972, when it was in a bad shape, eroded and infested with weeds.
		The Friends of Organ Pipes and other volunteers have spent thousands of hours working on the restoration.
	www.upfromaustralia.com /orpinapa.html (113 words)

	organ-pipe cactus -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The organ is a wind instrument in which pressurized air produces notes through a series of pipes organized in rows.
		Contains details of the organs used in each county, their makers, the artistes, recordings, and concerts.
		At the Saguaro National Monument, you can see the largest species of cactus in the United States.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9057349 (810 words)

	Untitled Document
		Such land includes National, State, Regional, Coastal and Wilderness Parks, Reference Areas, flora, fauna, and bushland reserves, and historic sites.
		For collection in multiple Regions, or land managed under the National Parks Act contact:
		Collection from land managed by Parks Victoria is generally discouraged, unless under certain circumstances, for example, when plant material cannot be obtained outside the park or reserve (or the only existing plant population outside the park are degraded or isolated).
	www.greeningwhatwhere.asn.au /6_loc_nat_seed.htm (1292 words)

	Geological Heritage
		The Organ Pipes National Park protects not only the geological features but also the largest and least modified area of volcanic plains grasslands and shrublands west of Melbourne.
		However, tree planting has obscured the view of the Organ Pipes from along the valley, and is beginning to limit visibility from the main observation point of the Organ Pipes themselves.
		The Organ Pipes are a spectacular example of columnar jointing, which developed as the basalts cooled.
	vic.gsa.org.au /Heritage/Case_Studies/Organ_Pipes.htm (262 words)

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