MS 9383

Papers of Roland Breckwoldt (1944- )



Scope and Content Note

Papers

1974-88

1.95 m. (13 boxes)

Available for reference

The Breckwoldt Papers were donated to the Library by Roland Breckwoldt in 1992.

The arrangement of the papers has been imposed by Library staff.

The papers comprise correspondence, reviews, drafts, notes and research material including articles, theses, reports and other papers relating to Breckwoldt’s publications Wildlife in the home paddock (1983) and A very elegant animal: the dingo (1988) and the report he edited for the National Trust of Australia, ‘A heritage study of Hartley, Kanimbla and Megalong Valleys’.


Biographical Note

Roland Breckwoldt was born on 8 February 1944 at Tatura, Victoria. He was educated at Macquarie Boys High School (Rydalmere, NSW), Hawkesbury Agricultural College (where he graduated with a Diploma of Agriculture in 1965 and a Diploma of Rural Extension in 1970) and the University of New England, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1977.

1960-61 Stockman, Augustus Downs Station, near Cloncurry, Qld

1962 Stockman, Camboon Station, Camboon, Qld

1963-65 Student, Hawkesbury Agricultural College

1966-68 Livestock Officer, Beef Cattle and Horses, Department of Agriculture, NSW

1969-73 Education Officer, National Parks and Wildlife Service of New South Wales

1973-74 Member of the Nature Conservation Committee, National Trust of Australia (NSW)

1973-74 Member of the Executive Committee, Beecroft-Cheltenham Civic Trust

1974-76 Senior Environmental Officer, Department of Environment and Conservation, Canberra.

1976 Resigned to take up management of his beef cattle property while writing and working as a consultant on conservation and land use planning

1979 Senior Tutor in Human Ecology, Human Sciences Program, Australian National University

1980-82 Visiting Fellowship, Australian National University

1980-82 Director, Eden Pastures Protection Board

1985-88 Member, Catchment Areas Protection Board

Breckwoldt has also served as a member of the Advisory Panel to Landscape and Conservation Committee of the National Trust of Australia (NSW); member of the Marsupials Working Group, Species Survival Commission, International Union for Conservation and Natural Resources (IUCN); member of the advisory committee, Aboriginal Employment Development Policy – Feral Animals, Noxious Plants and Game Meat Industry Program of the Department of Primary Industries and Energy; President, Tantawangalo Catchment Protection Association; President, South Coast Conservation Working Group and was a Council member of the Australian Conservation Foundation.

Publications

The Wolgan valley : a study of land-use and conflicts with proposals for future management (National Trust of Australia (N.S.W.), 1977)

Scenic landscapes : guidelines for their protection (National Trust of Australia (N.S.W.), 1978)

Wildlife in the home paddock: nature conservation for Australian farmers (Angus & Robertson, 1983)

On the land: a different way of life (Angus & Robertson, 1985)

The last stand: managing Australia’s remnant vegetation (AGPS, 1986)

A very elegant animal: the dingo (Angus & Robertson, 1988)

The dirt doctors: a jubilee history of the Soil Conservation Service of New South Wales (Soil Conservation Service of New South Wales, 1988)

Land degradation and animal welfare during drought (Bureau of Rural Resources, 1989)

Living corridors: conservation and management of roadside vegetation (Greening Australia, 1990)

Wetland management for farmers and other landholders (Total Environment Centre, 1990)

South Coast landscape classification study (National Trust of Australia (NSW), 1990)

Discovering New South Wales wetlands (Total Environment Centre, 1992)

Contract Employment Program for Aboriginals in Natural and Cultural Resource Management CEPANCRM : Evaluation biodiversity group -Environment Australia by Roland Breckwoldt, Robert Boden and Rod Williams (Environment Australia, 1997)

Does the answer lie in the soil? : a national review of soil health issues. Prepared for Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation by George Reeves, Roland Breckwoldt and Colin Chartres.(Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation, 1998)

Roland Breckwoldt has also published numerous reports, conference papers and journal articles, as well as prepared and broadcast a series entitled ‘Food for thought’ on ABC radio


Series List

  1. Wildlife in the home paddock, 1978-83
  2. ‘A heritage study of Hartley, Kanimbla and Megalong Valleys’, 1982-83
  3. A very elegant animal: the dingo, 1980-88
  4. Research papers, 1966-88
  5. Other papers, 1974-87

Series Description

Series 1. Wildlife in the home paddock, 1978-83

Correspondence, reviews, and other papers relating to Breckwoldt’s monograph Wildlife in the home paddock: nature conservation for Australian farmers, published by Angus & Robertson in 1983. Breckwoldt was awarded a grant by the World Wildlife Fund to write the book. In 1983 it was shortlisted in the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards and won Best Book on Animal Conservation in the 1983 Whitely Medal awards given by the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.

Many of the files are annotated ‘WWF’ by Breckwoldt and folders 8-22 have been roughly arranged in the order of the chapters in the book. The files contain correspondence, manuscript and typewritten drafts, notes, articles, publications and lectures by others, and other research materials.

Folder

Correspondence

1 World Wildlife Fund correspondence, 1978-83. Includes copies of the project submission.

2 Correspondence, 1979-82. Includes copies of letters by Breckwoldt, correspondence with the World Wildlife Fund and comments on chapters by specialists in the field.

3-4 Correspondence and reviews, 1983
Drafts and subject files

5-7 Typescript of Wildlife in the home paddock marked up for type-setting

8 Original drafts (includes draft acknowledgements)

9 Introductory chapter

10 ‘Tree decline’ (chapter 4)

11 Trees (chapter 5: ‘Tree regeneration’)

12 Regeneration (chapter 5)

13 Fire (chapter 7: ‘Management if wildlife habitat: fire and grazing’)

14 Farm dams (chapter 8: ‘Farm dams, creeks and rivers for wildlife’)

15 ‘Fish in farm dams’ (chapter 9)

16 Pesticide and chemicals (chapter 10: ‘Wildlife pest control’)

17 Management of problem species (chapters10-11)

18 Pigs, goats, rabbits, foxes, cats (chapter 11)

19 Wedge tailed eagle, wombats (chapters 12 & 13)

20 Large macropods (chapter 14: ‘Kangaroos and wallabies’)

21 Dingo electric fencing (chapter 15: ‘Electric fencing for wildlife’)

22 Case study – Koolewong (chapter 16: ‘Success stories and the future’)

23 Co-operative schemes (chapter 16)

24 For administrators (wider policy)

25 Artificial habitats (for birds)

26 Birds in general

27 Creeks and rivers

28 Ecology

29 Land and law

30 Plans of management

31 Who can help

Series 2. ‘A heritage study of the Hartley, Kanimbla and Megalong Valleys’, 1982-83

Breckwoldt was the project director and editor for this study for the National Trust of Australia, 1983. The series contains drafts, notes, correspondence, maps and research materials.

6 folders

Series 3. A very elegant animal: the dingo, 1980-88

Breckwoldt’s monograph on the dingo was published by Angus & Robertson in 1988. The book was partly funded by a grant from the National Parks and Wildlife Service of New South Wales and the Literature Board of the Australia Council Annual Park Writers Awards.

The series comprises two annotated typescript drafts and a small number of articles and research materials on the dingo.

6 folders

Series 4. Research papers, 1966-88

Papers used by Breckwoldt in researching his various writing projects.

1-14 Loose articles, theses, and reports by other authors, 1966-88. Topics include birds, dieback, fauna (including deer, feral cats, foxes, wild horses, dingoes and reptiles), fire, fisheries, pests, remnant vegetation, roadside vegetation, salinity, soil conservation, trees, and wildlife refuges and reserves.

15-16 Leaflets, information sheets and other ephemera on agricultural and conservation issues, c1980-84

Series 5. Other papers, 1974-87

Miscellaneous papers relating to workshops, seminars and courses, Breckwoldt’s membership of the Catchment Areas Protection Board and other matters.

Folder

1-3 Conference and seminar papers: Forum on roadsides and conservation (Burnley Horticultural College, 1974), Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland seminar on agriculture and conservation in inland Queensland (Dalby Agricultural College, 1983) and Gallagher 2nd World Wildlife Power Fencing seminar (Dubbo, 1985)

4 Catchment Areas Protection Board, 1981-85

5 National Conservation Strategy for Australia, 1982-83

6 Trees and Farm Planning course notes, 1985

7 Recreation Opportunity Spectrum Workshop, n.d.

8 Correspondence, 1983-84, curriculum vitae and other papers, 1974-82

9 Other papers, 1982-87

10 Undated papers

11-14 Forestry operations in Eden management area

15 Tantawanglo Catchment Protection Authority

16 Private forestry in Australia

17 Documents related chiefly to South-East forests

 


Box List

Box Series Folder/Piece
1 1 1-6
2   7-9
3   10-11
4   12-16
5   17-20
6   21-23
7   24-31
  2 1-2
8   3-6
  3 1-3
9   4-6
  4 1-5
10   6-12
11   13-16
  5 1-3
12   4-11
13 5 12-17
November 1999