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President's Report

Wed Jan 6, 2010: The latest president's report can be found here.

Carnarvon National Park and Great Walk Closures

Due to recent heavy rain, Carnarvon Gorge National Park is closed due to extensive flooding. The park will remain closed until further notice, for more enquiries on the park please contact the rangers at Carnarvon Gorge National Park on (07) 49844505.

The Carnarvon Great Walk will be closed from the 1st March 2010 until the 27th March 2010. This is to allow for the ongoing coordinated feral animal control program to continue throughout the Carnarvon National Park.

Contact the Roma office of QPWS on 07-4624 3535 for updated information.

Cooloola National Park tracks reopened

After recent rainfall all walking tracks within Cooloola have been re-opened. There may be some inundated sections in low-lying areas along the Cooloola Wilderness trail which remain wet and boggy. Please observe detours and signage.

Recent rainfall has alleviated high fire danger conditions and the fire prohibition has been lifted as from Tuesday, 2 February 2010.

Campfires are permitted at Teewah Beach, Poverty Point and Inskip Peninsula Recreation Area camping areas only.

Please take care with campfires, keep them small, never leave a fire unattended and extinguish with water, not sand. Use a pre-existing campfire site. Do not collect or burn bush timber (including leaves and twigs for kindling). Penalties apply. Preferably use a fuel stove instead.

Fraser Island camp closures

The Woralie Creek Camping Area will be temporarily closed from 16 February to 24 February inclusive.
This closure will allow for site upgrade. For further information phone 1300 130 372 or QPWS office at Eurong on (07)4127 9128.

Deep holes containing sea water have formed in the beach track between the Waddy Point campgrounds and the beach.
To avoid vehicle damage use the inland track from Waddy Point to Orchid Beach.

Due to aggressive dingo incidents, the following beach camping zones remain closed temporarily until further notice:

• Cornwells beach camping zone
• One Tree Rocks beach camping zone

An increase in dingo activity may be expected in the following nearby camping zones:

• Gabala beach camping zone (directly north of the closed area)
• Wongai beach camping zone (south of the closed area)

Campers wishing to camp on the eastern beach are encouraged to use campgrounds to the north or south of the areas mentioned above, such as Poyungan, Winnam and Guluri camping zones to the north and Govi camping zone to the south.

For further information please visit www.derm.qld.gov.au/fraser or phone 1300 130 372.

Mt Barney closed - Helicopter crash and planned burns

Walking track access to Mount Barney is closed due to an aircraft incident currently under investigation. The area will be closed until further notice. For updated track information and updates on planned burns during February and March, please contact the Boonah QPWS on 07 5463 5041.

Main Range National Park - Ramparts Section planned burns

The following off-track bushwalking areas may be closed for planned burning during February: Mt Castle, Hole in the Wall , Kangaroo Mountain .

Burning operations will be weather dependant. Please contact the park office on 4666 1133 for specific closure details.

D'Aguilar National Park - deviation

The entrance to the Greenes Falls track will be closed while rangers conduct work to divert storm water run off that is eroding the track. An alternate entrance via the Cypress Grove track will still allow access to Greenes Falls while the repair work is being conducted between 4/2/2010 and 11/2/2010.

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