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Human Impact on the Arapiles/Tooan State Park 17-May-2018 At 6:14:07 PM joeybonez

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On 10-May-2010 scarecrow wrote:
>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!

hey mate im in year 12 at the moment and im doing exactly what you were doing, looking at the effects human impacts have had on Araps. just wondering if i could look at your work and reference the research that had taken place 8 years ago and how the park has developed compared to now.