Final Program
7:30am - 8:15am
Breakfast
8:15am - 8:45am
Continuation of the PVS Games (Interpretation Unit)
Session Three:
Parks are for People (Chair: Tracy Shea)
8:45am - 9:15am
Nearer to Nature - helping people get outdoors and enjoy nature (May Carter)
9:15am - 9:30am
Questions / discussion
9:30am - 10:00am
Planning & managing for people with disabilities in natural areas - some international observations (Glenn Willmott)
10:00am - 10:15am
Questions / discussion
10:15am - 10:45am
Morning Tea
10:45am - 11:15am
Official Welcome - Jim Sharp
Parks and Visitor Services in the 21st Century - delivering the triple
bottom line (Jim
Sharp)
11:15am - 11:30am
11:30am - 12:00pm
Assessing the economic value of protected areas (Jack Carlson and David Wood)
12:00pm - 12.15pm
12:15pm - 1:00pm
Lunch
Session Four:
Nature based recreation and tourism research initiatives (Chair: Daryl Moncrief)
1:00pm - 1:30pm
Driving our research dollar further - an update on CALM's PVS Research Strategy and partnerships and collaborative approach to nature based recreation and tourism research (Colin Ingram and Sue Moore)
1:30pm - 2:00pm
Determining carrying capacities and managing visitor impacts at "icon sites" - Monkey Mia case study (David Charles, Sue Hancock & David Newsome)
2:00pm - 2:15pm
2:15pm - 2:45pm
Presentation by Executive Director (Keiran McNamara)
2:45pm - 3:00pm
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Afternoon tea
Session Five:
Management of adventure and/or high-risk activities across the public conservation estate (Chair: Tracy Shea)
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Managing visitor risks in Karinji NP (Dave Whitelaw) Doc 1, Doc 2, Doc 3
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Management of competitive mountain bike events in south west forest areas (Rod Annear, Leon Price and Dave Lathwell)
4:30pm - 5:30pm
General discussion and workshop key issues
5:30pm - 6:15pm
Social time
6:15pm - 7:00pm
Dinner
7:30pm - close
Managing visitor impacts and wildlife interactions in remote land and seascapes - an Antarctic odyssey (Neil Taylor) followed by
Best in the west - a light and sound show of some of the latest and most innovative facility provision and visitor interpretation projects across the state (Tracy Churchill and Gil Field)
