martin hawes wilderness management
Martin Hawes has worked in wilderness management for over 25 years, specialising in assessing and managing remote-area walking tracks. In the early 1990s he researched and wrote the 3-volume Walking Track Management Strategy for the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, and he was the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service’s Track Monitoring Officer from 1992-97. A consultant since 1998, his major projects have included:
- Designing and surveying the 2-day Beeripmo Walk in western Victoria.
- Preparing track management plans for Washpool and Gibraltar Range National Parks (NSW), Alpine NP (Vic) and Mt Field NP (Tas).
- Surveying and assessing the proposed 60-km Three Capes Track (Tas).
- Surveying and assessing major realignments for the Frenchmans Cap, South Coast, Wineglass Bay Lookout and Mt Zeehan tracks (Tas), the Toorongo Falls track network (Vic) and the Wellington River/Clive Lanigan track (Vic).
- Quantifying and mapping the wilderness values of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area using GIS-based methodologies.
- Developing a township trails strategy for the Huon Valley Municipality (Tas).