Summary: This report provides the Environmental Protection Authority’s advice and recommendations to the Minister for Environment on the proposal by the Department of Environment and Conservation to construct and maintain a 45 kilometre coastal walk trail from Point Ann to Hamersley Inlet, through the Wilderness Management Zone of the Fitzgerald River National Park. Camping facilities such as sleeping huts, water collection facilities and toilets would be constructed at camping points along the walk trail. The proposal would also require vehicle access tracks for ongoing maintenance of the walk trail, camping facilities and emergency response.
Release Date: 2 May 2011
Details: Appendix 3 - Proposal information
Attachment 1: a copy of DEC's referral under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (pdf 2.24 Mb)
Attachment 2: Fitzgerald River National Park Management Plan 1991-2001 (pdf 1.10 Mb)
Attachment 3: Overview maps of the project area from Bremer Bay to Hopetoun, including Fitzgerald River National Park (pdf 10.6 Mb)
Attachment 4: Maps describing the Fitzgerald River National Park Recreation Master Plan (pdf 4.6 Mb)
Attachment 5: Site development plans for recreation sites at the eastern end of Fitzgerald River National Park, a concept plan for Hamersley Inlet and proposed small structures index for eastern sites (pdf 42.9 Mb)
Attachment 6: Car park development specifications for the eastern end of Fitzgerald River National Park (pdf 9.22 Mb)
Attachment 7: Concept plans for recreation sites at the western end of Fitzgerald River National Park (pdf 5.5 Mb)
Attachment 8: Walk trail concept plan and map (pdf 9.91 Mb)
Attachment 9: Fitzgerald River National Park Management Plan 1991-2001 proposed amendments (pdf 182 kb)
Attachment 10: Main Roads Western Australia clearing permit 2005-2010 (pdf 800 kb)
Attachment 11: Flora survey for Hamersley Drive stage 1 by Dr Gillian Craig and Ellen Hickman (pdf 4.13 Mb)
Attachment 12: Flora survey for proposed gravel extraction at Lot 6382 Steeredale Road, Hopetoun by Ellen Hickman (pdf 829 Kb)
Attachment 13: Flora survey for Hamersley Drive recreation sites by Dr Gillian Craig (pdf 5.83 Mb)
Attachment 14: Fitzgerald River National Park threatened taxa report (pdf 15.6 kb)
Attachment 15: Visual impact assessment for the sealing of three kilometres of Hamersley Drive at the eastern end of Fitzgerald River National Park (pdf 3.75 Mb)
Attachment 16: Fitzgerald River National Park Phytophthora dieback management plan, Phytophthora dieback map, Phytophthora dieback Hamersley Drive survey, and Phytophthora dieback interpretation report (pdf 18.7 Mb)
Attachment 17: Fauna survey for Hamersley Drive by Mr Andy Chapman (pdf 1.66 Mb)
Attachment 18: Fauna survey for recreation sites at the eastern end of Fitzgerald River National Park by Mr Andy Chapman (pdf 1.34 Mb)
Attachment 19: Fitzgerald River National Park improvement project environmental framework (pdf 57.2 kb)
Attachment 20: Fitzgerald River National Park Hamersley Drive environmental management plan (pdf 17.7 Mb)
Attachment 21: Report of an archaeological heritage assessment along Hamersley Drive (pdf 1.93 Mb)
Attachment 22: Report of an ethnographic Aboriginal heritage survey of Hamersley Drive, and materials extraction pits within the Fitzgerald River National Park and Hopetoun (pdf 4.67 Mb)
Attachment 23: Status on compliance with the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (pdf 49.7 kb)
Attachment 24: Public Participation Communications Plan (as at Spring 2009) (pdf 1.76 Mb)
Attachment 25: Feedback reports on community meetings (June 2010 and August 2010) (pdf 409 kb)
Spatial data (zip 116 kb)
Proponent: Department of Environment and Conservation
Status: Final
Report Number: 1396
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