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Parks and Recreation Collection – Narratives

PaRC (Parks and Recreation Collection) is an Australasian collection of parks, open space and leisure resources. The collection comprises a range of strategies, reports, master plans, guidelines and policies from all levels of government and other sources, supplemented by the narratives on this site.

Recent Narratives

  • The Threat of Weeds to Bushland – A Victorian Study

  • Highlights of Victoria’s National Parks System 1957-1982

  • Braeside Metropolitan Park Master Plan Report

  • Secondary use – Privatisation of public land

  • How Much Longer Will Our Bushland Last?

  • “People Gardening”

  • Explanation of PaRC Categories

  • Mammals of the Victorian Mallee and Biological Survey of the Big Desert

  • An Introduction to Victorian Forest Trees

  • Bush Regeneration Contractors – “Save the Bush” 1990+

  • Mt Elgin Management Plan, Wimmera Region

  • Freshwater Fish of the Yarra River

  • Environmental weeds

  • Working with Young People in Rural and Isolated Communities

  • Burnley College gardens

Advisory committees

A guideline of the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Implementing NRM Plans: Ensuring that ‘Something Happens’ after a Plan is Approved contains advice useful for an officer attempting to assemble an advisory committee.

Banner photo Jells Park, Melbourne, by Trevor Arthur