This article by Geoff Edwards, then a Technical Officer with the National Parks Service and dated 1974, outlines a program of bush regeneration carried out in the Organ Pipes National Park, on Jackson’s Creek, just off the Calder Highway, and which came under the Service’s jurisdiction in 1972.
The article gives credit to a handful of volunteers from the Maribyrnong Valley Committee who have worked tirelessly for years and years in collaboration with the Service to control weeds and propagate the indigenous vegetation. The group became the Friends of the Organ Pipes, the first “Friends of the National Parks” group that affiliated with the Victorian National Parks Association and, according to the FOOPS website, the first in Australia.