FOGGS have been invited to be part of this group, and Wendy Bedggood will be our representative. The first meeting will be in July when these draft ideas will be discussed and membership confirmed.
Below are parts of the draft aims and objectives.
A roundtable is an independently facilitated meeting that allows groups with an interest in a topic to come together and collectively consider the issues. It helps participants build an understanding of each other’s perspective and where possible identify solutions or pathways forward on challenging and contentious issues.
The Grampians National Park roundtable has been formed to provide a forum for dialogue between land management agencies and the community.
The geographical area that the roundtable will cover is the Grampians National Park and its surrounds, including the Black Range State Park and contiguous areas of public land and state forest in the Greater Grampians and public land areas around Stawell and Ararat.
Objectives
The roundtable aims to be a forum that:
Improves communication between and amongst stakeholder groups, land management agencies and the community to develop a shared understanding of the complexity of issues in land management
Informs DSE and Parks Victoria decision making, procedures and practice in relation to land management in Grampians National Park and surrounds
and informs government policies without being an official or formal source of advice to government.
The total membership is to be capped at 25 members to allow for productive dialogue. There will be three or four meetings per year. Graham Parkes will lead it.
Members will be drawn from a variety of interest groups, endeavouring to cover: Apiarists, Catchment Management Authorities, CFA volunteers, DSE, Environmental groups of different types, Health, Farmers, Indigenous, local governments, one representative of Special User Groups (e.g. 4 wheel drive, bushwalking, rock climbing, fishing, cycling clubs), Tourism, Wine industry.