Friends of Tarra Bulga National Park

The Friends of Tarra-Bulga National Park Inc. formed in 1994 in response to a specific but very important concern. During 1993 and 1994 many park visitors found to their dismay that the newly built Visitor Centre was often closed on weekends. “The Friends” were formed to ensure that the Centre was open during peak visitor periods.

Twenty years later, staffing and maintaining the Visitor Centre is still one of the group’s main activities, but we also do plenty more including:

• Fauna and flora monitoring e.g. Lyrebird Surveys.
• Working Bees to plant trees or remove weeds.
• Guided walks.
• Guest speakers.

Everybody knows that Tarra-Bulga National Park is a great place to visit. Even greater benefits can be achieved by becoming more deeply involved with this fantastic place. We have several ways volunteers with different interests can gain by getting involved.

• Do you enjoy meeting visitors from overseas and interstate and helping others?
• Have time to spare on weekends and school holidays (Approx. 1 day per month).
• Have your own transport to get to Balook.
• Think that Tarra-Bulga National Park is a pretty unique and special place.
• Occasionally like some quiet time for yourself.

Then becoming a Visitors Centre volunteer could be great for you.

• Do you love getting outdoors?
• Keen on Environmental Restoration.
• Reasonably fit and active.
• Available on Saturdays and Sundays and have your own transport to get to Tarra-Bulga.
• Do you think that Tarra-Bulga is a pretty unique and special place (and would like to help make it even better?

Then helping out at one of our Working Bees could be great for you Contact us via email: friendsoftarrabulga@gmail.com or phone our President, David Akers: 0488 035 314

You can also see whats happening via our Facebook Page www.facebook.com/tarrabulga  or follow us on Twitter @TarraBulgaNP

Tarra Bulga National Park

Hidden in the Strzelecki Ranges, Tarra-Bulga National Park features lush fern-filled gullies, giant Mountain Ash and ancient Myrtle Beech. Enjoy one of the many walks through the trees and spot some of Australia's most loved native animals.

Morwell National Park

Situated in the northern foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, this park is small in size but of great value in preserving a remnant of the area's original plant and animal life. The best was to enjoy Morwell National Park is to walk through it. Fosters Gully Nature Walk provides an excellent introduction to the park.

Things to do
A self-guided nature walk through Fosters Gully provides the visitor with detailed information on the variety of plants and animals found in the park.

Heritage
Morwell National Park and surrounding area was occupied by the Woollum Woollum Clan who used the area to hunt possums for food and skins. Artefacts from these times have been found in the surrounding areas. Europeans settled here in the 1840s and cleared land for grazing.