2014 April May Newsletter

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Vol 22April / May 2014Kanyirninpa

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Elders find oldwater holes

Using helicoptersto put fire into

country

Ranger programupdate

Mankarrpopulations beingmonitored

Martu visitWarlpiri to learnabout IPAs

Community AccessLibrary now in

Roebourne Prison


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During May, Martu spent two weeks working with

a helicopter to find and record the location

of yintakaja(waterholes) to the east of Well

33 and in Karlamilyi. This work continues the

very successful helicopter mapping that was

undertaken in 2012 and 2013.

We spent a week with the helicopter based atWell 33, where the Punmu rangers, assisted by

four rangers from Parnngurr, set up a very good

camp. Kumpaya also came from Parnngurr as

the Kinyu area and the area east of Kunawarritji is

her country. Kumpaya went up in the helicopter

every day and she and her grandson, Clifton,

did a fantastic job in finding many rock holes

and other places that had not been visited for

many years.

The rangers also found some places that wereaccessible by motor vehicle. A total of 22

places were found and their locations recorded

by GPS. Many photographs were taken of

these places and stories were recorded. All this

information will be kept safe for Martu, so that the

rangers can clean out the waterholes and look

after them, and future generations of Martu can

go back to these places.

Places that were found included Papuly, Nganjirr,

Yinyaru, Wanayantil, Pinkari, Kiwirl and manyothers. All the rangers were able to visit Papuly

and Wanayantil by vehicle, and also some other

places close to tracks.

Cover: water at Warntili. This page fromtop: Nancy Chapman and CassandraNanudie at Jamparri; Kumpaya Girgibaleading the helicopter for the day;Kumpaya, Danny and Clifton at Wanayantil

Elders find old water holes with the aid of

helicopters


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Six women casual rangers from Punmu joined

the group for two nights and they were able

to visit Wanayantil and Kiwirl. The ladies were

disappointed at the state of Kiwirl. The water and

surrounding area was in poor condition due to

camels.

The trip gave the women the opportunity to

practice the preparation and maintenanceof a camp, including meal

planning, packing the vehicle,

camp setup, cooking and

vehicle maintenance. A

helicopter trip to Papuly at the

end of the trip was a highlight

for the womens team.

Ryan, the helicopter pilot, did

a great job in taking people to

the right places and keepingeveryone safe.

One night the group had

a barbecue at Well 33 for

Kunawarritji community and on

another night films and photos

from the helicopter mapping

where shown in Kunawarritji.

It was a very good weeks work

and all the rangers worked

very hard to make sure thatthe helicopter mapping and

waru work was successful.

The week after working out at

Kunawarritji, the rangers focus

moved to Karlamilyi. The

work in Karlamilyi had three

objectives:

the Punmu rangers were

doing waru(fire) work with

the helicopter to the southand west of Lake Dora;

the Punmu and Parnngurr

ranger team were finding a

good route for the Kalyuku

Nintitrip to Karlamilyi in June; and

Muuki, Waka, Minyawe and Nancy Chapman

were using the helicopter to find and record

yintakajain Karlamilyi.

The Punmu rangers set up a very good base

camp on the bank of the Karlamilyi River at apoint where they had found a good place to

cross the river, and where there was open space

for the helicopter to land.

We used the helicopter to do some mapping

work and some waruwork every day. Everyone

worked well together and the old people who

went up in the helicopter to do mapping work

were also able to point out good places for the

rangers to do waruwork.

Waka and Minyawe visited Wawul and, after a

lot of searching in the helicopter, also foundYaralalu and landed there

to tell their stories of that

place. Muuki and Nancy

Chapman showed us the

big water places at Jamparri

and Pulawarru. A total of nine

places were found that had

not been previously recorded.

After the Parnngurr rangers had

driven up along the river fromParnngurr, both the Punmu

and Parnngurr teams visited

Jamparri with Muuki, Waka and

Minyawe.

They were able to make a

vehicle route for the Kalyuku

Ninti trip to follow and also

found a good camp site

close to the water. This will

enable about 60 people on

the Kalyuku Ninti trip to visit this

important wetland area.

This was another very

successful week and showed

us again how important it is

to have the helicopter to find

places that cannot be found

by vehicle.

We will be doing more

helicopter mapping work inAugust, in the area to the east

of Lake Disappointment and

north to Pitu and also around

the Harbutt Ranges.

This page from top: rangers looking at the map withKumpaya; Alwyn, Clifton and Kumpaya with a grindingstone found at Jurn; Levina with the turbidity tester atKiwirl rockhole. Opposite page clockwise from top left:ranger team at Kiwirl; Kumpaya and Clifton at Jurn;

Kennedy at his fathers waterhole Wingarnwith the rangers; a perfect camp spot onKarlamilyi River; Muuki ready to go; Muukiat Japarl; Warnanjarra wetlands; Waka atParpanu soak


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In May, KJ rangers headed off to Nyirripi, a

Warlpiri community located about 470 kms

northwest from Alice Springs in the NorthernTerritory.

We had been invited to go with some Warlpiri

traditional owners, Central Land Council (CLC)

staff and rangers to a remote section of country.

We wanted to hear from them about their

Southern Tanami Indigenous Protected Area (IPA),

which is the largest in Australia. We also wanted

to see the way they use helicopters to burn

country.

As soon as we arrived, about 40 traditional

owners from Yuendumu, Willowra and Nyirripi

started to arrive with CLC staff from Alice Springs.

Before long a large convoy of Toyotas headed

off-track back towards Lake Mackay. For the next

few nights we camped at an important place

called Mina Mina.

Muuki and several of the Warlpiri elders went in

the helicopter to visit an important mens place

that Warlpiri hadnt been to for a

very long time.

Martu visit Warlpiri to

learn about IPAs

From top: Warlpiri traditional owners, CLC staff and KJMartu rangers; convoy heading towards Lake Mackay;Muuki being shown country by the Warlpiri elders


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The KJ group heard how since 2012 Warlpiri

traditional owners decided to look after their

country as an IPA. Warlpiri told us they declaredthis IPA because they wanted to have more say

on what happens on their country. However,

they also wanted to be able to make money

from some parts of their country.

This IPA allowed them to do both of these things.

Today, the Granites Gold mine is within that IPA

area and this mine helps provide some of the

funds to manage the country through things like

the ranger program.

Trips like this (and the one last year to GrooteEylandt) are an important way to learn about IPAs

and to help Martu decide if they want to declare

an IPA over their own country.

We also got to see the Warlpiri rangers running

the aerial incendiary machine from the

helicopter to put waru(fire) into the country. Like

Martu country, Warlpiri country is really big. Even

though the bigger helicopters that they use cost

more money, it means they can get the right

traditional owners up at same time that theyburn country. This is another story that the KJ

rangers will take back to the ranger teams and

communities for them to think about.

It was a great experience for all of us and would

like to thank all the CLC staff that helped us with

the visit. In particular we would like thank the

Warlpiri traditional owners for showing us their

country and making us feel so welcome on their

country.

From top left: Warlpiri traditional owners explainingabout IPAs; Martu ranges learning about the aerialincendiary machine; burning on Warlpiri country


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The start of April saw a great joint trip between the

Jigalong men, Parnngurr men and the Parnngurr

women ranger teams. The aim of the trip was to

open up new country south of Punkulyi (Mackayranges) for the rangers to work in.

The teams visited some amazing spots on the trip

including some old campsites, beautiful wetland

areas and waterholes that had not been visited in

a long time.

The Parnngurr women ranger team chose a water

source as a site to monitor regularly to help build

up a more reliable and informative data set on

the water quality at this site. On the trip new fauna

monitoring plots were carried out. The team

located tracks of the langamarlu(mulgara).

All of the teams agreed it is a place that will be

worth going back to visit to have a closer look at

how the area can be managed.

Last year the KJ Board approved the Martu

Healthy Country Plan which explains what is

important for Martu rangers on their country,

what they worry about and how the Martu

men and womens ranger teams will look after

country so that the waterholes are healthy, bush

tucker comes back and small animals like the

mankarr(bilby) increase in numbers.

The Healthy Country Plan was produced after

many discussions over the years with Martu whohave been working with KJ on country. It also

followed both informal and formal meetings in

each of the communities and lots of wangka

(discussions) on trips such as Kalyuku Ninti (return

to country) trips and ranger trips.

We have now made a film version of the

Healthy Country Plan which can be viewed

online or can be viewed from a USB stick.

The online version can be found on the KJ

website http://kj.org.au/films/

Ranger coordinators will be distributing USB

versions in the coming month.

New country opened

up for work south of

Parnngurr

Martu Healthy Country

Plan

From top: Jigalong mens, Parnngurr mens andParnngurr ladies ranger teams at the end of the Punkulyitrip; Parnngurr and Jigalong rangers at Turrngul

From top: Martu Healthy Country plan; MartuHealthy Country plan film


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Mankarr(bilby) populations being monitored by

women ranger teams

Wanja Mankarr? Where is the

bilby?

Mankarr(bilby) populations

have continued to be

monitored by all three women

ranger teams during April and

May. The Punmu womensteam spent many day trips

during the past two months

with a specific focus on

checking the mankarr(bilby)

locations that had been highly

active at the end of 2013. It

seems that with the change

of seasons, many of the busy

areas have quietened down

and the mankarrhave moved

to other nearby locations.

A sensor camera was set up

at a fresh mankarrburrow

where it is hoped some baby

mankarrimages might be

captured. A favourite dingo

habitat was scoured for

scats to test to see if they

are having any impact on

nearby threatened species

populations.

The Parnngurr team also went

on a number of day trips to

locate new sites for mankarr

(bilby) and langamarlu

(mulgara) which will continue

to be monitored during the

year.

The Jigalong team found

strong evidence of the

mankarr(bilby) out near Pinpi

(Durba springs). Through their

tracking skills, the women wereable to find diggings, tracks

and burrows of three to four

mankarrwithin a 10km radius

of Pinpi.

The women think that the

mankarrmanaged to

outsmart a feral cat by using

old burrows as cover until the

danger disappeared. They

identified the two best placesto set up sensor cameras.

These cameras will record

picture stories of the life of

the mankarrand predators,

like feral cats and dingos. The

cameras will be collected on

a following visit out to Pinpi.

An eight minute film shows footage collected from a remote

sensor camera set up by the Jigalong men and women

rangers in 2012.

The remote sensor camera captured 219 days of desert life.

In the movie you see the movements of a mankarras well

as other animals in the desert, in particular hungry wild cats.

The film was directed by Fiona Walsh, CSIRO and was

produced by Prevailing Winds Productions. Towatch the movie go to the films sections on the

KJ website. http://kj.org.au/films/

From top: scats collected by thePunmu casual women rangers

nearby a mankarr population;Janelle, Punmu casual womanranger, setting up a sensor cameraat a mankarr burrow; Bernice andNyaparu, Jigalong casual womenrangers, setting up a sensorcamera during their trip to Pinpi.Bottom article: Karlson, Jigalongranger, setting up the remotesensor camera outside a mankarrburrow


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Two weeks were recently spent putting waru

(fire) back into country. Twenty rangers from

Punmu and Kunawarritji and waruman (Gareth)

spent the first week outside of Kunawarritji doing

waruwork with the helicopter. The use of the

helicopter gave the rangers from Punmu and

Kunawarritji an opportunity to have a look at the

area from the air, and do some waruwork inareas that could be affected by summer fires.

The situation there is tricky for waruat the

moment. There were big fires there in 2012 that

burnt a lot of the area between Gary Junction,

the Canning Stock Route and the lakes to the

north. Almost all the areas that werent burnt two

years ago look ready to burn now. This made

it very difficult to put small fires in. The rangers

had a good look at the areas from the ground

and air, and compared the fire scar maps

to what they saw. Using that information, they

were able to burn in areas east and south of

the community. The fires did not damage the

trees like summer fires do so they can continue

to provide some protection. There is a lot of

opportunity to work in this area, especially now

that more of the waterholes have been visited

again.

The week after Kunawarritji, the Punmu rangers

headed to Karlamilyi River. One of the big

focuses for this week was burning, with importantwetlands along the river and near the edge of

Lake Dora being affected by wildfires in the last

few years. The wetlands were full of water, which

meant that rangers could safely burn without

damaging the vegetation at the edge of the

wetlands.

The difference in the areas that had been burnt

in summer was obvious from the helicopter, with

water being clear where the edges

of the lakes were unburnt and murkyin the burnt areas. The rangers fire

work is helping to improve the health

of these places.

Using helicopters to help Martu put waruinto country


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The warulit in this week was

smaller than expected, with

still days and humid nights.

The older areas of paru

(spinifex) that were lit burnt

slowly, without damaging

trees, and the other areas

didnt burn much at all.

Maybe next time we will havesome more luck with the

wind.

All the Punmu men rangers

were able to have a turn

in the helicopter and most

of the men rangers from

Parnngurr as well. The

helicopter work has been

great for visiting country

that would otherwise be toohard to access. By working

together with the old people

mapping country at the

same time as doing other

work, we have a great

opportunity to learn about

and look after country at the

same time.

Previous page: Muti inspectingranger fires near the Canning Stock

Route Between well 32 and 33.This page from top: fire beyond

the shrub lands surrounding KunyKuny; Maclean showing the a

patchy fire near the Canning StockRoute; Charleston burning near

Kuny Kuny; Wananjarra wetlands of

the south west side of Lake Dora.A hot summer fire has damagedthe vegetation surrounding thewetlands on one side, affecting

the water quality; the other sidehas been protected through cool

season burning by the rangers


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Jigalong mens ranger team

The Jigalong rangers have beeninvolved in taking primary school

children out on country during the

school holiday program, trips up

through Punkulyi (Mackay Range) to

open up new country to manage,

waru(fire) work along Savory Creek

and heaps of work back out at Pinpi.

The team had a two-night trip out to

Savory Creek to conduct some waru

work. The team burnt a large sectionof the creek and then headed down

the track toward Well 15 and lit some

more waru.

The Jigalong rangers helped to plant

a range of native and fruit trees at

three houses in the community. The

Jigalong school also received a

donation of plants for use around

their new community fire circle near

the schools front gates.

At the end of May the Jigalong team

headed out to Pinpi for a big week of

work. The team successfully installed

the information panels at Pinpi Gorge

which was a huge achievement for

the team.

The team put in small waruburns to

protect the recently translocated

warru(rock wallaby) population.

Bollards were also installed at Pinpi tocreate a buffel grass exclusion zone

within the Pinpi Gorge campground

area. The rangers then spent an

afternoon removing buffel plants

from the area.

Mens ranger program update

From top: Jigalong rangers standing infront of the Savoury creek burn; finishedinformation shelter; Nullagine talking tothe team about the waru; Justin, Lindsay

and Cedric putting in a small waru alongthe creek line; Jigalong rangers removingbuffel at Pinpi

April and May have seen many trips and activities undertaken by all

three mens ranger teams. Additional highlights which are not included in

other articles in the newsletter are outlined below.

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Parnngurr mens ranger team

The Parnngurr rangers have been busy with

Kalyuku Ninti scouting, the Punkulyi trip, the

school holiday program as well as waru(fire)

work. The team had a look at the fires scar

map near Copper Hill to identify an area

where there was a lot of unburnt spinifex.

Afterwards they went out to the nominatedsites to do burning to break up the old spinifex.

The Parnngurr rangers also went to take a

look at the remote cameras that were set

up in front of caves north of Parnngurr where

last March they had discovered signs of

warru(black flanked rock wallabies) . The

cameras had a motion sensor and as soon

as something jumps in front of the lens it will

take a photo no matter whether day or night.

The result was sensational. Out of 12 cameras,

11 had plenty of photos of warru. It looks like

there is a healthy population with animals of

all ages.

Also on the photos were tilti(black goanna),

kirti-kirti (hill kangaroo) and minguwa(echidna),

piwi(owl) and other birds. Unfortunately, also

pujikatu(cat) and walytaki(fox) were caught

on the camera. They are a threat to the warru

especially to the young ones.

The team is planning to do some trappinglater on in the field season to identify whether

the warruare related to the ones out at

Kaalpi.

From top: Parnngurr rangers after a daysburn; Hayden and Alwyn at one of the lakesduring the Kalyuku Ninti scouting trip; a warrucaptured on the remote sensor camera northof Parnngurr


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Punmu and Kunawarritji mens ranger

team

The Punmu and Kunawarritji rangers have

been very busy assisting with the helicopter

mapping and waru(fire) work.

They also have managed to completed their

firearm training in the community and werealso involved in a police search for a missing

man on the Canning Stock Route.

Punmu ranger teams have been working

with Nyaparu(Bob) Richards from Greening

Australia to green-up the communities. The

Punmu rangers helped Nyaparuplant a

number of gardens in the community.

While the Punmu team was assisting with the

helicopter mapping and waruwork, the team

also took time to do some scouting for theupcoming Karlamilyi Kalyuku Ninti (return to

country trip) in June.

The team made a good track across the river

to Jampati, a place with lots of kapi(water)

that the group will visit on the 10 day trip. The

Parnngurr team were checking the road on

the southern part of Karlamilyi to Parnngurr.

Cameraman (NyaparuWells) was also with

the Punmu team making a helicopter safety

training movie as well as gathering footage for

the 2014 ranger video, which we are looking

forward to seeing.

From top: the Punmu and Kunawarritji rangers travelling

between well 37 and 38 helping a police search; Damien,NB, Dwayne and Gavin at Jampati on the Karlamilyi River; atthe camp on Karlamilyi having wangka (talk) about waterholesand waru


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Womens ranger program update

The womens ranger program has been launched in Parnngurr with the team moving from a casual

program of 10 days a month into a program that has work every week. In May the team were

excited to receive their uniforms. Jigalong and Punmu teams are now referred to as casual women

rangers with the program operating 10 days each month in the communities. All of the teams have

been busy in April and May.

Parnngurr womens ranger teamThe has been a shift in focus this field season as the

Parnngurr womens ranger team have extended their

day trips and are working together with the Parnngurr

mens ranger teams travelling further afield. Working

together provides a holistic approach in managing

country and has the desired outcome of healthy

people, healthy country . This approach is more in

step with the way Martu would have travelled and

managed country in the pujiman(bushman) times.

The Parnngurr women rangers have been involvedin the joint trip to Punkulyi (MacKay rangers) and the

school holiday program. The also team participated

in a day trip out with the Parnngurr mens team and

Alicia Whittington from the Department of Parks and

Wildlife Services, to determine if there is a small

population of the warru(black flanked rock wallaby).

The teams set up sensor cameras and collected

scats.

In June, the Parnngurr womens team will be involved

in a seven-day Kalyuku Ninti (return to country trip)to parts of the Karlamilyi (Rudall River). This will be a

special trip to reconnect traditional owners and their

families to country and water sources.

From top: Parnngurr women rangerteam in their new uniforms; burningat Warntili; putting in a small waruoutside of Parnngurr


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Jigalong casual womens

ranger team

The Jigalong casual womens

ranger team ran six day-trips

in April as well as a five-day

camping trip out to Pinpi (Durba

Springs) in May.

There are many women getting

involved in the program and

are keen to work with other

communities. Thirty-two women

participated in the program over

the past two months with ten

being completely new to ranger

work.

The main activities included

looking after water sourcesand keeping an eye on native

animals. Four young girls also

came out with the team to learn

tracking and land management

skills from their aunties and elders.

Over the past two months, the

women tested water quality

in six water sources, including:

Ngujapunya and Nyatjurra

rockholes and Nuka, Meeka, Pinpi

and Yurltuwinti springs.

The women tested each of

the springs in the morning and

the afternoon, to learn about

changes in water quality through

the day. The women are looking

to select two springs that can

be tested like this on a regular

basis. This information will help

create a picture of the daily and

monthly health of a selection ofpermanent water sources in the

Martu determination.

The women got their hands dirty

by clearing channels connecting

some of the springs and their

lower pools of water. Using sticks,

shovels and hands they cleared

out mud, muck and algae to

help the water flow. They also

shared stories about the origins ofthe water and special features of

the springs.

One objective in managing

country is keeping an eye on sites

where special animals have been

seen in the past.

The Jigalong casual women

rangers completed tracking in six

old fauna monitoring sites. They

found many signs of yalapara(goanna), kilu(spinifex hopping

mouse), karlaya(emu) and kipara

(bush turkey).

Sadly, there were also many signs

and sightings of pest animals

like cat, camel, donkey and

horse. Another objective of fauna

monitoring has been to see if

there are any signs of threatened

species in new areas. Three newsites were found in April and May.

The Jigalong team also

participated in weeding of

Mossman Burr grass out at the

Pinpi (Durba Springs) camping

site.

Mossman Burr grass has recently

established itself in the camping

ground and is spreading quickly.

It could easily threaten the areaswest of the range, where mankarr

(bilby) populations are known

to exist. The main plant itself

was easily to pull out. However,

the burrs are more difficult to

manage sticking to clothes and

falling back down to the ground

in new areas.

The women burnt their weed

collection to reduce this threat.Follow-up weeding will be

important. It will be good to

manage this more strategically,

by weeding when there is minimal

seed.

From top: Bernice Fred getting herhands dirty to clean Nuka spring;Meana Samson and Moranda Burtonclearing water channels at Nukaspring; removing Mossman Burr from

Pinpi campground; theJigalong casual womenrangers signing a touristsCanning Stock Routebooklet at Pinpi


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Punmu casual womens

ranger team

The Punmu casual womens team

have been busy with a number

of day trips completing a large

range of different work on country.

The team have trialled a newCyberTracker device and

completed fauna monitoring in

old and new locations.

The women joined with the Punmu

mens ranger team on a day trip

to Yijinypa with Minyawe. It was a

great opportunity for the teams to

work together, especially when it

came to getting over some of the

bigger dunes. Minyawe shared

his experience of this place from

travelling through as a young

man.

The Punmu casual women

rangers also joined the Punmu

and Kunawarritji mens team for

the helicopter mapping and waru

work out of Well 33.

Water monitoring has been

conducted included thedrinkability test at Jila Jila. Weed

management has also been

undertaken with a patch of buffel

grass being dug up, bagged

and burnt. This will become a

test area to return to for buffel

management planning.

The Punmu women casual

rangers will have more chances

to get further out on country thisyear. The trips will be easier to

prepare for, as there is now a

storage space in the community

to keep the teams equipment in.

The womens team grows every

work week, with women that have

not worked in the CfoC program

before coming on board. The

new team members are learning

how to use technology to record

traditional ecological knowledge

as well as using western science

to help look after country.

From top: Cassandra and Levina in the helicopter; Rosie and

Mulyatingki discuss the reptiles they know; Punmu casualwomen rangers conducting water monitoring; Pamela,Shaylene, Fiona, Tasha and Mulyatingki digging and bagginga small patch of buffel grass


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Waru(fire) planning

In April, all the ranger coordinators and waruman

(Gareth) got together in Newman to talk about

the waru(fire) work plan for the year as well as

ways to ensure that waruis safe and good for the

country. By working together to learn Martu ways

and new scientific ways of using waru, we can

continue to improve the health of the country.

Leigh Sage, who is a waruman with the

Department of Parks and Wildlife Services in Perth

has been coming out to Martu country for the

last three field seasons. In May, Leigh spent a

week in Parnngurr finalising the burn plan for the

community.

The Department of Parks and Wildlife Services will

help the community and the rangers to do the

waruprotection work around the community to

make sure that the community will be safe from

hot summer fires. There will be a visit to Punmu as

well, to talk with the community about their plan.

The Parnngurr mens ranger team took Leigh

out to an area that needed some waruwork

near Copper Hill. Leigh has been learning a

lot from Martu, and has many skills that Martu

can also learn to do different waruwork. The

partnership between the Department of Parks

and Wildlife Services and KJ rangers is strong. By

working together we are finding the best ways to

manage country.

Ranger Leadershipprogram

The Ranger Leadership program started properly

at the start of May. Ngangkari(Tim Schneider)

arrived with his family to live in Newman at

Easter.

We have started to talk to all the leadership

participants in the communities about what

they want to do. This will include trips to see

other places and learn from other groups. The

first big trip like this happened in May, when

Ngangkariand Tristan took Muuki and a group

of rangers to Warlpiri country, to see what the

people over there are doing with ranger work

and with a Indigenous protected area. They

will tell everyone in the communities what they

have learned.

Members of the leadership program each have

a personal project every year. Clifton had a

big project, working on the helicopter mappingwith his grandmother. He organised a lot of the

work and helped Kumpaya to identify many

waterholes. He took a lot of responsibility but

also learned a lot doing that work. Everybody in

KJ was impressed with his work.

We are asking each of the leadership

participants to tell us what sort of program

they want, what they want to learn, why it is

important to them and what they

want to do. These interviews arevery important for building a Martu

ranger leadership program, so that

everything is done the right way.

From top: Muuki and the KJ rangers arriving at Nyirripicommunity; Clifton inspecting country for fire south ofKunawarritji


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The roll-out of the Community Access

Library (CAL) continued in May with the

installation of the library at Kunawarritji as

well as the Roebourne prison. Feedbackfrom the prison has been very positive

about the program.

I just wanted to drop you a briefemail to say thank you so muchfor setting up the wonderful Martuarchive in our library. The guyscome in every day that the libraryis open, they gather around thecomputer and look at the photosmostly, they tell stories and laughand joke. Some of the guys havegot quite emotional seeing theimages of their families and havebeen brought to tears. The archiveis such a wonderful resource and Ijust wanted to say thank you for thehard work that has obviously goneinto setting this up.

B.ColstonRoebourne Regional Prison

CAL is now installed Jigalong, Parnngurr,

Punmu, Kunawarritji, Nullagine, Warralong,

Bidyadanga, KJ office Newman, EastPilbara Independent Service Newman and

the Womens shelter in Newman. There is

one more computer to be installed which

will be happening early June at Wangka

Maya in Hedland. This will then total 11

sites where Martu can access photos, films,

documents and audio files.

In the last two months a lot of work

has gone into developing the plant

profiles in the system. Arpad Kalotas, anenvironmental consultant who worked with

the Martu in the 1980s, has been assisting

in updating the profiles and linking the

profiles to images. So far there are 172

flora profiles in the database. Work has

also continued on importing more photos

and other objects with a further 3,000

media items being added to the CAL

bringing the total to 27,560.

If any Martu are interested in working onCAL please contact Zan at the KJ office.

Community Access

Library now in

Roebourne Prison

Photos: Kunawarritji residents enjoying the newcomputer installed in the office


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1 - 10 June: Karlamilyi Kalyuku Ninti trip

9 - 14 June: Jigalong rangers CSR trip

16 - 21 June: Tree planting in Parnngurr

with Greening Australia

16 - 27 June: Jigalong casual women

ranger work

18 June: 2012 KJ ranger movie on

NITV 9.30pm

18 - 27 June: Helicopter burning Jigalong

and Parnngurr rangers

25 - 27 June: Jigalong rangers TEK trip

25 - 27 June: Cultural Awareness

Newman

1 -3 July: Remote First Aid training

4 - 16 July: Punmu casual women

ranger work

7 - 11 July: Nullagine Football Carnival

13 - 21 July: Kulyukartu Kalyuku Ninti Trip

14 - 19 July: Jigalong rangers working

with School Holiday

Program

14 -19 July: Tree planting in Jigalong

with Greening Australia

14 - 21 July: Parnngurr women rangers

on country trip Williams/

Kadibil family

21 July - 1 August: Jigalong casual

women ranger work

21 July - 9 August: Jigalong rangersCertificate II

28 July - 2 August: Tree planting in

Parrngurr with

Greening Australia

29 - 31 July: Cultural Awareness

Newman

Whats coming up

Right: Leon Taylor, Parnngurr ranger, happy seeingthe result of his waru work


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