Assorted documents mainly relating to the exclusion of grazing from Victorian alpine areas, 1978-2005

Containers:

Box 56 (MS 10563)

Component identifier:

File 840

Content Summary:

Letter from A.B. Costin to Victorian Minister for Conservation, Forests and Lands Kay Setches regarding land management of the Snowy Plains and Bogong High Plains, 6 December 1989. Letter refers to the effects of grazing.

Media Release "Alps grazing ban clears way for Australian Alps world heritage listing" by Andrew Cox, National Parks Association of New South Wales, 25 May 2005. Printout of email addressed to undisclosed recipients.

Assorted documents including correspondence drafts, publication (annotated) and public statement regarding conservation of Victorian alpine areas and cattle grazing. Includes drafts of letter from A.B. Costin to Steve Bracks, a newsclipping, and a public statement regarding world heritage listing from Carruthers Group of Alpine Ecologists and Scientists including A.B. Costin as signatory. Public statement annotated with note to A.B. Costin from Roger Good and includes colour photographs.

Typed manuscript of letter by Alec Costin to unidentified publication regarding grazing in Victorian alpine areas.

Copies of letter titled "Australian conservation" by A.B. Costin and H.C. Coombs, 1978. Letter published in Nature, critiquing the claims (also published in Nature) of Kenneth Mellenby regarding Australian National Parks.

Typed manuscript "Scientific bases for the exclusion of grazing from the Kosciusko National Park" By A. B. Costin and D. J. Wimbush.

Immediate source of acquisition:

This large and diverse collection was compiled by Alec Costin then organised and catalogued by the eScholarship Research Centre at The University of Melbourne from 2017-2019. The collection was then transferred to the National Library of Australia in 2020.

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