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Wollemi National Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Categories: National parks of New South Wales It is the site of the only known stand of the Wollemi Pine, a species thought to have become extinct before Australia separated from Antarctica approximately thirty million years ago but discovered alive in the 1990s. This page was last modified 15:44, 26 October 2005. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wollemi_National_Park   (121 words)

News in Science - Fossil tree in bushfire zone - 14/01/2002 Fire crews are monitoring a large bushfire in the Wollemi National Park, 150 km northwest of Sydney, which is home to three stands of the Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) — a genus of tree which prior to 1994 was known only in fossils dating back to the age of the dinosaurs. Nevertheless, the National Parks and Wildlife Service is making every effort to protect the Wollemi from any fires, until more is understood about its ecology. National park authorities are unwilling to confirm or deny whether the current fire is anywhere near the trees as this may give clues as to their whereabouts, which is a closely guarded secret designed to protect the trees from the destructive forces of intense human interest. www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s456759.htm   (629 words)

Blue Mountains Online - Wollemi National Park Wollemi National Park covers an amazing 4876 sq km and is NSW's second largest National Park. Because the park is so rugged much of it remains unexplored wich means the survival of many rare plant and animal species including the recently discovered Wollemi Pine. www.bluemountainsonline.com.au /bmo/home.nsf/webpages/hhae5mw27p.html   (53 words)

Tourist Attractions - National Parks - Blue Mountains region - Australia On the western edge of the Wollemi National Park, adjacent to the Wolgan Valley, is the recently-proclaimed Gardens of Stone National Park. The Blue Mountains National Park is in 2 sections; one north and one south of the main string of towns which follow the Great Western Highway and railway. Other national parks adjoining this area are Nattai in the southeast, area 86,000ha; Yengo on the east side of the Putty Road, 139,861 ha (both of these are part of the World Heritage region; and Goulburn River west of Muswellbrook, 69,343 ha. infobluemountains.net.au /green/national.htm   (605 words)

Greater Lithgow - Wollemi National Park Surrounded by the wilderness of Wollemi National Park, rain-forested canyons, spectacular sandstone cliffs and historic ruins of the former mining town, two hand crafted cabins (sleep 6 and 4 persons) in the most beautiful setting, solar power, disabled facilities, ecologically built, pets welcome. Possibly the most important aspect of Wollemi National Park is that it protects, permanently, the largest remaining forested wilderness in NSW, including the Colo-Capertee river system, used extensively with the surrounding bushland for hardy recreation activities. The Wollemi Pine, a "living dinosaur" was discovered in Wollemi National Park in 1994. www.lisp.com.au /~lithtour/wollemi.htm   (307 words)

Bruce Zimmerman Greennotes Jan 98 Page5 with the boundaries of the Wollemi National Park. National Parks and Wildlife Service is preparing a conservation strategy to protect the grove of Wollemi Pine and undertaking a study of the ecosystem. Dave Noble, a NSW National Park and Wildlife Service field officer was walking in the Wollemi National Park when he stumbled across a grove of trees that he did not recognize immediately. www.brucezimmerman.com /GREENNOTES/GREENNOTES_JAN98_PG5.htm   (456 words)

Travelmate - Australia Accommodation and Hotels, Tours, Car Hire, Maps, Australian Travel Guide Wollemi National Park is the home of the Wollemi pine, a recently discovered living fossil which has remained unchanged for millions of years. Lane Cove National Park in the northern suburbs has picnic facilities and a range of walks beside the Lane Cove River (swimming in the river is dangerous and is not advised). On the southern edge of Sydney is the Royal National Park, the oldest national park in Australia. www.travelmate.com.au /Places/Top10.asp?TM_Page=Places&CatId=16&State=NSW&TownId=1252   (460 words)

Protected Areas Programme - Towards the south of the park are feral populations of cattle, horses and pigs, while pigs are also found in the Grose Valley to the north and in the Wolgan Valley in Wollemi NP. Parts of the park are heavily used for climbing, abseiling and "canyoning" (a mix of walking and roped climbing through the many narrow canyons in the park) (NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, 1998a). Additionally the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service are undertaking a number of more directed research programmes focussed on a number of conservation issues and have set priorities for future research (NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, 1998a). www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/wh/blue_mountain.html   (3783 words)

WollemiPine.com - Frequently Asked Questions about Wollemi Pine. The Wollemi Pine was discovered in August 1994 by David Noble, a NSW National Parks and Wildlife Services Officer who, when trekking and abseiling with friends, noticed the unusual nature of the Pine and took a small fallen branch home for identification. It was known from fossil records and presumed extinct until it was discovered in 1994 by a bushwalker in the Wollemi National Park just outside Australia's largest city, Sydney. Wollemi Australia's aim in the propagation of the Pine, is to ensure that a range of Pines will be ultimately made available to all who wish to care for one. www.wollemipine.com /faq.php   (1178 words)

Australian Museum - Wollemi rock art: new discoveries The Wollemi National Park was gazetted by the Wran Government in 1979. Paul Tacon from the Australian Museum briefed the Premier on this fantastic discovery in the Wollemi National Park. The National Parks and Wildlife Service has chosen to restrict information about the exact location of the site in order to protect it from inadvertent or wilful damage. www.austmus.gov.au /archive.cfm?id=1294   (540 words)

"Friends of the Colo" It is formed where the Wolgan and Capertee Rivers meet and flows for approximately 60 km through dramatic gorges and forests in the Wollemi National Park World Heritage and Wilderness Area. Wollemi NP is a rugged area and much of the Colo River is bound by high cliffs and difficult to reach even for experienced bushwalkers and canoeists. Extensive surveying of tributaries of the Colo (the Capertee and Wolgan Rivers and Wollemi Creek) has established that these weeds are not spreading from areas upstream, as originally thought. adunk.ozehosting.com /foc   (894 words)

Wilderness Action Summary - Wollemi The wild and rugged watershed between the Wolgan and Capertee Valleys was left out of the declared Wollemi Wilderness under an overgeneralised approach by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, which avoided inclusion of narrow extrusions or areas adjoining cleared farmland. The 4,030 ha of Corricudgy State Forest should be immediately added to Wollemi National Park and Wilderness. Wollemi is the largest temperate eucalypt forest wilderness in the world, a vast sandstone expanse stretching 120 km from Bilpin in the south to the upper Hunter Valley in the north. www.colongwilderness.org.au /Wilderness2000/wollemi.htm   (665 words)

Newnes and the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area Much of Wollemi National Park is now designated a "Wilderness Area" and this is the second largest such area in New South Wales. A nearby national park, made up of three areas to the west and south of Newnes. All national parks in the Newnes area are administered by www.lisp.com.au /~newnesk/natl/nbmwha.htm   (503 words)

UNIVERSE - Journal of The Astronomical Society of New South Wales Inc. At 492,220 hectares, The Wollemi National Park is the second biggest park in the state, and is 30-40 km east of Ilford. A northern extension of the Blue Mountains National Park, it is wild and relatively trackless and less crowded than its famous neighbour. The Wollemi Pine - no I don't know EXACTLY where it is, but around 50 km east of Wiruna, in two deep, secluded canyons, remain a few dozen adult specimens of genuine Jurassic Bark, the last survivors of a genus which was believed to have gone with the dinosaurs. www.asnsw.com /universe/1997/nogt-12970198.htm   (640 words)

Wollemi National Park - Wikitravel Wollemi National Park is just 100 km north-west of Australia's largest city, Sydney and yet it contains the largest wilderness area in New South Wales. The park, which contains a number of rugged and inaccessable areas is the home of the extremely rare Wollemi Pine - (The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney (http://www.rbgsyd.gov.au/information_about_plants/wollemi_pine) website has more information). This may be a problem if you rent a car from the majors. wikitravel.org /en/Wollemi_National_Park   (181 words)

European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights: news The cave was found by a hiker in 1995 in a remote part of the Wollemi national park, north-west of Sydney. The cave was discovered by a backpacker in a remote and almost inaccessible part of Wollemi National Park in New South Wales. It was found in a remote part of Wollemi National Park, north-west of Sydney. www.eniar.org /news/painting.html   (903 words)

Wollemi National Park Wollemi National Park is one of the largest in New South Wales, taking in about 500 000 hectares of wilderness country. Dunns Swamp is found on the Cudgegong River, about 25km north of Rylstone, in the Wollemi National Park. Located in the park at a secret location are a number of sites where the rare Wollemi Pine grows. wilderness.esmartweb.com /NSW/wollemi.html   (1038 words)

Historic Mudgee and Gulgong Central West & Riverina - NSW - Travel - MyNRMA Wollemi is just one of several national parks that surround Mudgee, all of which are worth exploring. From Rylstone, head east for 25 km to the Wollemi National Park and have a picnic at Dunns Swamp. Just north of the town is the Goulburn River National Park - 70,000 hectares of rugged bush and many Aboriginal sites. www.mynrma.com.au /central_west_mudg.asp   (1012 words)

Wollemia Nobilis The genus Wollemi commemorates the Wollemi National Park in which it occurs. That was until a bushwalker discovered them in 1994 in Wollemi National Park, 150 kilometers north-west of Sydney. Wollemi Pines were only known as fossils and thought to have been extinct for millions of years. www.conifers.co.uk /rarities.htm   (222 words)

Wollemi carboniferous trees, thought to be extinct for thirty million years, discovered in Australia This was no easy task: the Wollemi National Park is a sandstone massif covered in eucalyptus woodland and scrub, peppered with isolated patches of rainforest. The 23 odd-looking pines, stretching up to 40 metres through the canopy of a deep and inaccessible gorge in Australia's Wollemi National Park, are from a group that once covered the southern supercontinent of Gondwana. They had feared that the decline of Wollemi pines, and their apparent enthusiasm for asexual reproduction, might be the result of poor seed viability. www.tlio.demon.co.uk /trees.htm   (2221 words)

New South Wales National Parks National parks, and other conservation reserves, exist to protect this extraordinary natural diversity. Mount Warning, at the heart of the park, is the remnant central plug of the Tweed shield volcano. New South Wales Historic and and Marine parks www.australiannationalparks.com /newsouthwales   (438 words)

Glow Worm Tunnel: Wollemi National Park: Blue Mountains: Australia Note, however, that the railway formation is narrow, and parking is limited beyond the car park at the Wollemi National Park boundary. Originally part of the remarkable Wolgan Valley Railway, the Glow Worm Tunnel area is today a beautiful and curious part of Wollemi National Park. The Glow Worm Tunnel parking area is located 3km past the junction of the Glow Worm Tunnel Road and the Old Coach Road. infobluemountains.net.au /rail/upper/glow_worm.htm   (1246 words)

Exhibit The exhibit simulates the natural habitat of the animals native to the sandstone escarpments which are characteristic of the Sydney region, focusing on the example of Wollemi National Park. (The Wollemi Pine was discovered by a National Parks officer, David Noble, in 1994 in a deep canyon within the Wollemi National Park, approximately 100 kilometers from Sydney.) After viewing the Wollemi Pines, visitors enter the walk-through habitat enclosed by an 80x15 meter aviary and embark on a typical "bush walk " experience. Experiencing an animals behaviour totally surrounded by a naturalistic environment is the greatest educational tool for the preservation and conservation of natural areas like the Wollemi National Park. www.zoolex.org /zoolexcgi/view.py?id=286   (1732 words)

Wollemi Pine biography .ms The Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) is a remarkable coniferous tree that was discovered in 1994 in a remote series of narrow, steep-sided sandstone gorges in a mild temperate-zone rainforest wilderness area of the Wollemi National Park in New South Wales, 150 kilometers north-west of the Australian city of Sydney. The discovery by David Noble, a park ranger of the Wollemi National Park in the Blue Mountains only occurred because of his adventurous bushwalking and rock climbing abilities. It is also proving itself to be more adaptable and cold-hardy than its restricted distribution would suggest, tolerating temperatures down to -5°C. Like many other Australian trees, the Wollemi pine is susceptiple to the root fungus Phytophthora, so this may limit its potential as a timber tree. wollemia.biography.ms   (336 words)

BGT - Habitat The Wollemi Pines grow in the Wollemi National Park, north-west of Sydney, the state capital of New South Wales (NSW), Australia. The park covers about 500 000 hectares and is the largest wilderness area in the state — a very rugged mountainous region of ridges, cliffs, canyons and undisturbed forest. Wollemi Pines surrounded by a warm temperate rainforest dominated by Coachwood and Sassafras. www.rbgsyd.gov.au /information_about_plants/wollemi_pine/habitat   (309 words)

Wollemi National Park @ ExplorOz The Wollemi National Park consists of 492 976 ha and is the largest wilderness area in NSW — a spectacular maze of canyons, cliffs and undisturbed forest. Wollemi National Park is only 100kms from Sydney and makes a great weekend trip because of its proximity. Less than 100kms from Sydney, the Wollemi National Park is a great weekend destination. www.exploroz.com /TrekNotes/Syd/Wollemi_National_Park.asp   (754 words)

Blue Mountains National Park (NSW - Australia) It stretches from Wollemi National Park in the north through to Kanangra-Boyd National Park in the south-west, creating what is a vast wilderness area. The park can be reached by many roads, but it is the great Western Highway that divides the national park into two sections. Burfitt and Bruce Roads are then followed into the national park. wilderness.esmartweb.com /NSW/blue.html   (1848 words)

International Conference "Tree Rings and People" Wollemi Pine was discovered in 1994 lying in a deep sandstone gorge in the Wollemi National Park about 200 km west of Sydney. Keywords: forest ecology, annual increment, Wollemia nobilis, Wollemi National Park, Australia Preliminary results on the dendrochronology of Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis), a new conifer genus from NSW, Australia www.wsl.ch /forest/dendro2001/abstracts/abs118.ehtml   (257 words)

Harbour Partners - The Landscape of Blue Mountains Rock-Art: The Project Wollemi National Park is considered by many people to be the largest remaining wilderness in New South Wales. The rugged nature of Wollemi National Park makes it an exciting and challenging place to study the region's cultural heritage. The aims are to better understand the relationship between Blue Mountains region cultural heritage and that of other parts of New South Wales and to describe culture change in the Wollemi region and other parts of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area over the past few thousand years. www.livingharbour.net /partners/wollemi1.htm   (285 words)

Quantum - A Green Dinosaur - Wollemi Pines WhatÆs remarkable is that this gully in the Wollemi National Park seems to be the only rainforest pocket on the continent where the Wollemi PineÆs survived... In 1994, a grove of trees, previously known only from ancient fossils, was discovered in a remote gorge in the Wollemi National Park, near Sydney. Michael Sharp, NSW National Parks: ôBack in the early days when we were looking at ways of collecting seed from the trees we were trying to do that without damaging the trees themselves, so we looked at in this case coming in on the winch cable from a helicopter. www.abc.net.au /quantum/stories/s181.htm   (3367 words)

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