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The Friends Of Grampians Gariwerd has around 80 members. Of these members, there are about 20 locals with the remaining members coming from other parts of Victoria and some from interstate.

We work in close co-operation with the local staff of Parks Victoria. FOGGs came into existence in 1984, the same year as the Grampians was declared a National Park. Over the years we have created many joint projects we can look back on with pride.

Please feel free to explore our site to see the types of activities we undertake.

Our Flood Recovery Works page will provide information on the works being undertaken in the Grampians National Park to recover from the floods.

Cynthia has sent us another image – let’s let Cynthia explain:

Here’s an autumnal bee for the newsletter. When looking up what the local bee species are I was utterly charmed to discover blue-banded bees and their habit of sleeping in groups, clinging with their mouths to little plant stems; and also found a scientific paper saying that using blue-banded bees as tomato pollinators results in 11-21% larger tomatoes. So this is Amegilla chlorocyanea with a tomato flower. This is the first time I’ve drawn a bee, so hopefully it’s up to snuff and doesn’t horrify any entomologists. :)

Amegilla chlorocyanea with a tomato flower

This image of a Long Nosed Potoroo was donated by Cynthia Clark. You can see her motivation for this donation in our news section

For some ideas on what to do while visiting the Grampians please have a look at the Visit Grampians You Tube Channel.

Recent Articles

February 2013
25 -> REPORT ON THE CURRENT FIRES
January 2013
29 -> FROM THE EDITOR - Margo
29 -> FROM THE EDITOR DECEMBER 2012
September 2012
13 -> CALENDAR DETAILS
13 -> FLOOD RECOVERY NEWS
13 -> WIMMERA BIODIVERSITY SEMINAR
13 -> WEB SITE CORRESPONDENCE
13 -> JULY FUNGI FROLIC Wendy Bedggood
13 -> Monitoring and Survey work in the National Park
13 -> Threatened Species Activities Wendy Bedggood
13 -> HOW TO CONTACT PARK STAFF
13 -> Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby News
13 -> FROM OUR TEAM LEADER, CULTURAL AND NATURAL VALUES
13 -> Celebrating 100 years of Zumsteins – 25 November 2012
13 -> IS FOGG A LOBBY GROUP?
13 -> PRESIDENT'S PIECE - Proo Pyke
13 -> FROM THE EDITOR - Margo
July 2012
09 -> JOINING FOGGS
09 -> TREE PLANTING ACTIVITIES
09 -> GRAMPIANS WILDFLOWER SHOW
09 -> FURTHER NEWS OF ACTIVITIES
09 -> A VISIT TO CYDELIA NATURE RESERVE
09 -> THREATENED SPECIES GROUP
09 -> MT ABRUPT SOCIAL WALK
09 -> MACROPOD TALK
09 -> FLOOD RECOVERY
09 -> WEBSITE CORRESPONDENCE:
09 -> GRAMPIANS NATIONAL PARK STAKEHOLDER ROUND TABLE REPORT
09 -> ADVISORY GROUP REPORT
09 -> MORE ON FOXES
09 -> STRIKE ACTION BY PV STAFF
09 -> FROM THE RANGER IN CHARGE
09 -> PRESIDENT'S REPORT JUNE 2012
09 -> EDITORIAL JUNE 2012
May 2012
18 -> Youtube video on the ongoing flood recovery work.
March 2012
30 -> TWO PASSIONATE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ON THE ZUMSTEINS REDEVELOPMENT
30 -> LETTER TO POLITICIANS re DSE cuts
28 -> PROVISIONAL CALENDAR 1ST HALF OF 2012
28 -> OUT OF THE ASHES: Post-fire recovery of small mammal populations following a landscape-scale fire event
28 -> ADVISORY GROUP REPORT March 2012
28 -> ACTIVITY REPORT 3 Keep Australia Beautiful Clean Up March 4.
28 -> MEETING REPORT 2: With Dave Roberts at the Park Office, February 21
28 -> ACTIVITY AND MEETING REPORTS: 1 Cooinda Burrong January 14.
28 -> WILDFIRES AND PLANNED FIRES
28 -> ONGOING FLOOD RECOVERY NEWS
28 -> FROM THE PARK DESK: AN UPDATE FOR MARCH 2012
28 -> PRESIDENT'S REPORT MARCH 2012
28 -> FROM THE EDITOR MARCH 2012
December 2011
28 -> COMMITTEE
28 -> ADVERTISEMENT Grampians Textures
28 -> POETRY AND HISTORY CORNER
28 -> BOOK REVIEW ‘The Victorian Bush its ‘original and natural’ condition’ by Ron Hateley
28 -> THREATENED SPECIES GROUP ACTIVITIES December 2011
28 -> ACTIVITY REPORTS December 2011
28 -> WEB PAGE 2011
28 -> CALENDAR DATES 2012
28 -> BURNING ISSUES GRAMPIANS ROUNDTABLE MEETINGS 2011 Wendy Bedggood
28 -> ADVISORY GROUP REPORT December 2011
28 -> FROM OUR RANGER IN CHARGE December 2011
28 -> PRESIDENT'S PIECE DECEMBER 2011
28 -> FROM THE EDITOR DECEMBER 2011 - Margo S
September 2011
07 -> CALENDAR DATES Fogg & Threatened Species
07 -> POETRY CORNER
07 -> THE ACACIA DEBATE Margo Sietsma
07 -> FLOODS, WILDLIFE, HOME! NEAR LAKE LONSDALE, SPRING 2011 Leigh Douglas.
07 -> JULY FUNGI FROLIC Wendy Bedggood
07 -> HALLS GAP LANDSLIP MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
07 -> THE LONG DISTANCE WALK Margo Sietsma
07 -> FLOOD RECOVERY NEWS: 2 _ VICROADS Margo with help from Andrew Roach
07 -> FLOOD RECOVERY NEWS: 1 _ VICROADS Margo with help from Andrew Boak of VICROADS
07 -> NEWS FROM THE ADVISORY GROUP Margo Sietsma
07 -> GRAMPIANS NATIONAL PARK AND SURROUNDS STAKEHOLDER ROUNDTABLE. Wendy Bedggood
07 -> Response to The Fire Operations Plan 2011-2014 Proo Pyke
07 -> FOGG COMMITTEE NEWS AUGUST 2011 Wendy Bedggood
07 -> FROM OUR TEAMLEADER, CULTURAL AND NATURAL VALUES – Ryan Duffy
07 -> PRESIDENT'S PIECE SPRING 2011 Proo Pyke
07 -> FROM THE EDITOR SPRING 2011 - Margo
June 2011
30 -> CALENDAR DATES
30 -> WEB SITE OF INTEREST
30 -> ART ACTIVITIES IN THE GRAMPIANS
30 -> RESEARCH PROJECT Social attitudes towards dingoes and wild dogs in Victoria
30 -> Fogg's “Landslide Talk”........Ross Cayley
30 -> Venus Baths Walk May 27
30 -> WEBSITE NEWS:
30 -> Grampians National Park Roundtable
30 -> THREATENED SPECIES GROUP MEETING.
30 -> ADVISORY GROUP REPORT
30 -> MORE ON FOXES
30 -> FROM OUR TEAM LEADER, NATURAL VALUES
30 -> From The Ranger In Charge Desk
30 -> PRESIDENT'S REPORT June 2011
30 -> FROM THE EDITOR JUNE 2011
May 2011
27 -> Ross Cayley visit Friday 3 June 9:00 – 11:30
April 2011
23 -> RECENT TRACK OPENINGS
23 -> Who we are and how to join us
23 -> Date set for VICROADS bus tour
16 -> PROVISIONAL CALENDAR
16 -> EMAIL ADDRESSES
16 -> POETRY CORNER
16 -> WEB SITE NEWS
16 -> BEYOND THE SMOKE BOOKS
16 -> NATURAL VALUES RESEARCH PROJECTS
16 -> Parkwatch Article
16 -> Grampians Walking Tracks Support Group.
16 -> Volunteer room news
16 -> ADVISORY GROUP REPORT
16 -> BRUSH TAILED ROCK WALLABIES UPDATE
16 -> Translocation of Threatened Plants
16 -> Austral Pipewort Search 12th March
16 -> Insects around us February 25
16 -> Ptilotus erebescens count at Cooinda Burrong January 8
16 -> LETTERS TO POLITICIANS
16 -> General Meeting Friday February 11 & Committee meeting April 8.
16 -> FLOOD UPDATES FROM PARKS AND VICROADS
16 -> WELCOME RYAN DUFFY
16 -> FROM THE PARK DESK
16 -> PRESIDENT'S REPORT
16 -> FROM THE EDITOR, APRIL 2011
04 -> AUTUMN NEWSLETTER 2011
March 2011
02 -> Insect Walk 25 February
02 -> Threatened Species Activity
February 2011
10 -> Grampians Flood Recovery Update
January 2011
23 -> Advisory Group Report - October and December 2010
23 -> Advisory Group Report
22 -> WEB PAGE NEWS
22 -> CALENDAR DATES
20 -> PRESIDENT'S PIECE
18 -> Brush-Tailed Rock Wallaby News
18 -> Activity Reports - September 2010 to January 2011
18 -> Redgum Walk and Table Dedication - 15 October 2010
18 -> A SLICE OF HISTORY from Kathy
18 -> Update from Prue Daley - 18 January 2011
18 -> David Roberts - Ranger In Charge
18 -> THE BIG STORM
18 -> FROM THE EDITOR, JANUARY 2011
September 2010
05 -> Spring Newsletter - From the Editor
05 -> (Acting) President's Piece
05 -> Road and Track Report
05 -> Poetry Corner - Spring
05 -> New Sign for Cherub Peak
05 -> A Winter Walk - Sunday 20 June
05 -> Grampians Bitter-Pea Presentation
05 -> Fungi Frolic - Saturday July 10
05 -> Geology Excursion - Saturday June 19
05 -> News from the Grampians Advisory Group
05 -> FOGG Committee News
05 -> And a Farewell
05 -> Another Warm Welcome
05 -> Welcome David Roberts, RIC
June 2010
20 -> Poetry Corner
20 -> Platypus (from the Wimmera CMA)
20 -> First Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby pouch young in the Grampians
20 -> Wednesday May 12 - Installation of the new table at the Red Gum Walk
20 -> Saturday May 8 - History Walk: Heatherlie and the old railway
20 -> Saturday April 17 - Grampians Pincushion-lily Survey (Borya mirabilis)
20 -> Advisory Group Report
20 -> Committee News
20 -> From the Acting RIC Desk
20 -> Vale Stan Parfett
20 -> Chinnup (Winter) - Season of Cockatoos
April 2010
16 -> PROVISIONAL CALENDAR April 2010
16 -> POETRY CORNER April 2010
16 -> Rare bottlebrush benefits from MacKenzie flow.
16 -> Grampians Autumn - Planned Burning Program April 2010
16 -> TOO MANY FERAL CATS IN VICTORIA
16 -> VEAC NEEDS FRIENDS
16 -> LOCAL REFERENCE GROUP OF ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANISATIONS.
16 -> VOLUNTEERS ARE VITAL! 4th of 4 articles
16 -> VOLUNTEERS ARE VITAL! 3rd of 4 articles
16 -> VOLUNTEERS ARE VITAL 2nd of 4 articles
16 -> VOLUNTEERS ARE VITAL! 1st of 4 articles, April 2010
16 -> THREATENED SPECIES GROUP REPORT April 2010
16 -> GRAMPIANS ARK, FOX PREY RESPONSE MONITORING (SPRING 2008 – 2009)
16 -> KOALAS IN THE PARK April 2010
16 -> BRUSH TAILED ROCK WALLABIES UPDATE April 2010
16 -> ACTIVITY REPORTS April 2010
16 -> VOLUNTEER ROOM NEWS April 2010
16 -> A LETTER FROM SYLVIA VAN DER PEET
16 -> ADVISORY GROUP REPORT April 2010
16 -> FOGG COMMITTEE REPORTS April 2010
16 -> FROM THE PARKES DESK April 2010
16 -> PRESIDENT'S REPORT
16 -> IN MEMORIAM John Harris
16 -> FAREWELL (sort of) to Graham Parkes.
December 2009
18 -> CALENDAR JANUARY to APRIL 2010
18 -> HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL PARK - Poetry
18 -> HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL PARK - Early Advisory Group Minutes
18 -> MEMORIES OF WORKING IN THE NATIONAL PARK IN 1984,85
18 -> MEMORIES OF THE CREATION OF THE GRAMPIANS NATIONAL PARK
18 -> HISTORY OF THE GRAMPIANS NATIONAL PARK 1984 - 2005
18 -> Critter monitoring near Yanac
18 -> Wildlife Health Surveillance
18 -> Botulism in Victorian wetlands summer 2009-10.
18 -> Brolga Research Project
18 -> Brushtailed Rock-wallabies Report Dec 2009
18 -> Grampians Flora Botanic Garden, Halls Gap
18 -> VOLUNTEER TRAINING UPDATE Dec 2009
18 -> Beyond the Smoke Books December 2009
18 -> WEBSITE NEWS
18 -> RED GUM WALK UPDATE DECEMBER 2009
18 -> THREATENED SPECIES GROUP ACTIVITIES last quarter 2009
18 -> INSECT TALK November 11 2009
18 -> GRAMPIANS WILDFLOWER SHOW 2009
18 -> WIMMERA BIODIVERSITY DAY September 3 2009
18 -> GENERAL MEETING FOGG SEPTEMBER 12, 2009. (Following the AGM)
18 -> FOGG AGM 12TH SEPTEMBER 2009
18 -> ADVISORY GROUP REPORT December 2009
18 -> FROM THE PARKES DESK December 2009
18 -> PRESIDENTS MUTTERINGS December 2009
18 -> FROM THE EDITOR December 2009
18 -> DECEMBER 2009 BALLAMBAR – season of butterflies.
September 2009
10 -> DISEASES OF ANIMALS IN AND AROUND THE NATIONAL PARK
10 -> ADVISORY GROUP REPORT SEPTEMBER 2009
10 -> MORE ON TWENTY FIVE YEARS OF THE GRAMPIANS NATIONAL PARK AND OF FOGG
10 -> CONSULTATION ON THE DRAFT FIRE OPERATIONS PLAN JULY 2009
10 -> FUNGI FROLIC JULY 2009
10 -> VOLUNTEER TRAINING
10 -> RED GUM WALK UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2009
10 -> FROM THE PARKES DESK (Whoops – the Stevens Desk) Mike Stevens, Acting Ranger in Charge
10 -> PRESIDENT'S MUTTERINGS – Stan
10 -> FROM THE EDITOR - Margo
10 -> Further details on the calendar
August 2009
09 -> Fire meeting GNP Ofice 21st July 09
09 -> Fungi Frolic at Zumsteins, Saturday 18th July 09
July 2009
22 -> Volunteering in the Grampians (Gariwerd) National Park
02 -> Margo Recognised at Kookaburra Lifetime Achievement Award
02 -> FOGG Newsletter for June 2009
01 -> FOGG ACTIVITY CALENDAR - July to September
01 -> REQUESTS FOR PHOTOS
01 -> WIMMERA CMA NATURE REPORTS
01 -> WCMA DROUGHT EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM CREW ASSISTS PARKS VICTORIA
01 -> INCREASE IN PARKS VICTORIA VOLUNTEERING
01 -> ADVISORY GROUP REPORT
01 -> National Sorry Day and Reconciliation Week
01 -> Brim Springs Heritage Day
01 -> THREATENED SPECIES GROUP REPORT
01 -> RED GUM WALK UPDATE
01 -> HATCHES MATCHES AND DESPATCHES
01 -> FROM THE EDITOR June 2009
01 -> FROM THE PARKES DESK (Whoops – the Stevens Desk) - June 2009
01 -> 25 YEARS of GRAMPIANS NATIONAL PARK and of our FRIENDS GROUP.
01 -> COMMITTEE NEWS
01 -> PRESIDENT'S MUTTERINGS June 09
01 -> FOGG ACTIVITY CALENDAR
April 2009
04 -> AUTUMN CALENDAR
04 -> WEBSITE REPORT
04 -> BEYOND THE SMOKE BOOK UPDATE
04 -> RED GUM WALK UPDATE
04 -> TWENTYFIVE YEARS OF FRIENDS OF GRAMPIANS-GARIWERD
04 -> BRUSH TAILED ROCK-WALLABY PROJECT CHANGES
04 -> FROM THE PARKES DESK
04 -> CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THE PARK
04 -> ADVISORY GROUP REPORT
04 -> ACTIVITY REPORTS
04 -> PRESIDENT'S REPORT
04 -> FROM THE EDITOR AUTUMN 2009
March 2009
18 -> TWENTY FIVE YEARS OF FOGG
February 2009
12 -> VICTORIAN BUSHFIRES
January 2009
09 -> From the Editor - Summer 2008
09 -> Birds of The Red Gum Walk
09 -> Grampians Advisory Group Report
09 -> 19th Annual Grampians National Park Emergency Services Fire Conference
09 -> The Impact of Severe, Landscape-Scale Wildfire on Small Mammals: Grampians National Park Case Study
09 -> Activity Reports - Summer 2008
09 -> From the Parkes Desk, Summer 2008
09 -> 2008 Annual General Meeting
09 -> President's Mutterings - Summer 2008
09 -> Mt William Creek Walk
09 -> Bandicoots
09 -> Frogs
09 -> Platypus
09 -> Cats
09 -> Name change for Mackey’s Peak?
December 2008
08 -> Victorian Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby Newsletter
November 2008
27 -> Happy Families
20 -> Collar and Cameras
13 -> Halls Gap Primary School and the BTRW
September 2008
02 -> VOTE FOR THE BRUSH TAIL ROCK WALLABY
02 -> SCIENCE SEEKS ANSWERS TO POST FIRE SURVIVAL
02 -> ADVISORY GROUP NEWS AUGUST 2008
02 -> MORE ON THE RED GUM WALK
02 -> FROM THE PARKES DESK, AUGUST 2008
02 -> LAST QUARTER'S ACTIVITIES
02 -> More on the Spring Calendar
02 -> President's Mutterings Aug 08
02 -> August 2008 Editorial
01 -> How to get your FOGG Updates Automatically
June 2008
13 -> BORYA MONITORING MAY 2008
13 -> ADVISORY GROUP NEWS JUNE 08
13 -> RRECONCILIATION CEREMONY AT BRAMBUK.
13 -> PICNIC AT FLAT ROCK (crossing)
13 -> RED GUM WALKS DISCUSSION PAPER
13 -> Red Gum Walks table stolen
13 -> From the Parkes' Desk June 2008
13 -> President's Mutterings June 08
13 -> From the Editor June 2008
March 2008
27 -> SOME LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT (MARCH 2008)
27 -> SNIPPETS FROM HERE AND THERE MARCH 2008
27 -> FROM THE PARKES DESK MARCH 2008
27 -> Members’ Meeting Feb 9th.
27 -> Members Meeting Jan 12th
27 -> ADVISORY GROUP REPORT March 08
27 -> MACROPOD MONITORING
27 -> REPORTS ON ACTIVITIES JAN - MARCH 2008
27 -> PRESIDENT’S REPORT
December 2007
15 -> WIMMERA MALLEE PIPELINE
15 -> SNIPPETS FROM HERE AND THERE
15 -> WALKING IN THE COUNTRY PARKS OF HONG KONG.
15 -> ADVISORY GROUP December Report
15 -> FROM OUR NEW CANADIAN RANGER
15 -> FROM THE PARKES DESK DECEMBER 2007
15 -> WHAT’S A GOOD FIRE?
15 -> PiIMELEA PAGAPHILA SEARCH November 8.
15 -> FROM THE EDITOR Dec 2007
12 -> Activities from Dec 2007 to April 2008
08 -> THAT PLANT: THE QUESTION - PROTECT IT OR NOT?
08 -> PRESIDENT’S REPORT Summer 2007
06 -> Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby day
October 2007
31 -> THE SIX SEASONS OF GARIWERD
31 -> BEYOND THE SMOKE BOOK & CD
31 -> AFTER THE FIRES - THE SECOND SPRING
31 -> Management of Fire
31 -> ADVISORY GROUP October report
31 -> Graham's October Article
31 -> AGM & General Meeting September 22
31 -> Out-going Presidents Report.
31 -> October 20 TSG Glycine latrobeana (Clover Glycine)
31 -> October 5-9 Halls Gap Wildflower and Arts Show.
31 -> September 22: AGM. and Red Gum walk inspection.
31 -> September 20. TSG Briggs Bluff.
31 -> Community Weed-spotter training
01 -> New Committe Formed at AGM
August 2007
12 -> Brush tailed rock wallaby community action group
08 -> VEAC Draft Proposal for River Red Gum Forests
08 -> Thin Green Line premiere
June 2007
25 -> President's Report June 2007
25 -> From the Parkes Desk June 2007
25 -> Letter to the Parliamentary Enquiry into the management of public land
25 -> Letter to Ian Voigt, Regional director DSE
25 -> Letter to John Thwaites (cc Mark Stone, Graham Parkes)
25 -> Winter 2007
25 -> TSG Activities March - June 2007
25 -> Red-gum Walk Inspection
25 -> Burning Questions - TSG Presentation (April 21)
25 -> Report on Macropod Research
25 -> Beyond the Smoke book & festival
24 -> Membership Entitlements
21 -> The Grampians National Park
January 2007
01 -> Research in the Grampians
July 2000
06 -> UNDERSTOREY
06 -> Small Mammal Survey
06 -> Black (Swamp) Wallabies
July 1999
07 -> Bats

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