Filling a hole in Mulligan's Flat for Summer..... Forde, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By Luckyl10n on 27-Jan-17. Waypoint GA9757

This cache helps to fill a hole in the caching map of Mulligan's Flat.....

I was looking at the map of Mulligan's Flat showing the available caches and noticed an area close to civilisation which looked pretty vacant.  I thought I should rectify the situation by placing a cache and this cache is the result.

This mystery cache IS NOT at the posted coordinates.  To find GZ, you will need to answer some questions about Mulligan's Flat Nature Reserve.

In 19AB, the Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve was established in north-eastern Gunghalin, adjacent to the ACT/NSW border following a community-led campaign to protect its box-gum grassy woodlands and fauna (especially birds). The Reserve covers approximately CDE hectares and has become a popular location for bushwalking, bird watching and other nature-based activities.

In 20FG a similar area of box-gum grassy woodland southeast of Mulligans Flat was protected in Goorooyarroo Nature Reserve. Together the two reserves (totalling about 1500 hectares) make up the largest and most intact contiguous area of Yellow Box – Red Gum Grassy Woodland reserve in public ownership across the original range of this community type in Australia.

In 2005, following the establishment of a major woodland research collaboration between the ACT government, ANU and CSIRO in the two adjacent reserves, the potential for Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve to include a cat and fox free Sanctuary was highlighted to facilitate the reintroduction of species that had disappeared from these woodlands.

Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary

Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary is situated within the Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve. The Sanctuary is owned by the ACT Government, is part of the ACT’s nature reserve system and is managed by the ACT Parks and Conservation Service as one of the many areas that are known collectively as Canberra Nature Park.

In 2006, the ACT Government announced its intention to build a rabbit, cat and fox proof fence Sanctuary at Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve, with the expectation of reintroducing ACT fauna that have become locally extinct.

Constr12uction of the Sanctuary fence commenced in November 2008 and in 2009, an 11.5km feral-proof fence was built and officially ‘closed’ at a ceremony conducted by the ACT Chief Minister, Mr Jon Stanhope MLA.

Work then began on removing feral animals and bringing back our lost native species.

In 20HI, Eastern Bettongs were reintroduced into Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary. This marked the first time in a century that this species was living in the wild on mainland Australia.

The cache can then be found at S35 EA.(G-H)(B+D-I)(B-D)   E149 F(C+I).GH(C-I). 

Check your coords, then off you go.....

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