Blue Gum High Forest Education Resource Kit

In 2008 The Friends of Lane Cove National Park Inc., with the help of Andrew Duffy, NPWS ranger and ECOLINKS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION produced a resource kit for local primary schools.

The Blue Gum High Forest Education Resource Kit addresses the importance of the Dalrymple-Hay Nature Reserve as a unique natural heritage area. It concentrates on educating school children about minimizing the impacts of inappropriate practices currently threatening Blue Gum High Forest.

This resource assists teachers in developing a unit of study that complements Board of Studies syllabus outcomes from Human Society and Its Environment and Science and Technology K to 6.

It provides teachers with a number of fun lessons that will satisfy current learning outcomes as well as introduce a wide array of new and interesting concepts.

Originally produced as a book and DVD, the DVD is no longer available, the remainder of the kit is now available online in the following sections.

• Dalrymple Hay Resource kit introduction

• Dalrymple Hay Resource kit

The kit was produced as part of a $67,000 grant obtained in 2004 from the Department of Environment and Climate Change’s Environmental Trust, which also funded ongoing bush regeneration and environmental education in the reserve.

Note : In 2007 the Blue Gum High Forest Group, a coalition of concerned groups, won their long-running campaign to protect the Blue Gum High Forest in St Ives, this was after the production of the kit. They…

• succeeded in having the Blue Gum High Forest ecological community listed as critically endangered under Commonwealth legislation

• campaigned successfully to have both 100 and 102 Rosedale Road purchased and included in the reserve,

• successfully nominated the Blue Gum High Forest for listing on the NSW Heritage Register