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Human Impact on the Arapiles/Tooan State Park 10-May-2010 At 4:29:44 PM scarecrow

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Hi There,

I'm doing a report on human impact on the national park at Araps for my Year 12 Outdoor Education, just wondering if I could get some opinions, facts, anything from the Chockstone community.

Obviously there are two main areas of impact: Camping and Climbing.

So far I've got:
Camping Impacts:
- Paths/foot traffic
- Litter/Glass (numbers of campers annually)
- Camping numbers: wildlife noise
- Tames wildlife
- Waste produced, huge numbers of bins (no recycling)
- Groundwater impact (toilets, bore water etc)
- Fireplace modification/Firewood collection

Climbing Impact:
- Cleaning routes
- Peregrine Falcon nests, certain climbs etc
- Other bird life being affected?
- VCC and Cliffcare (Arapiles) track work and others
- Bolts, chipped holds, pitons, chalk, chains, rap anchors etc.

So if anyone has some examples of the above or photos that you think would be of use, it would be a great help - PM or just reply on here, any discussion will be really useful!