Heritage To Profit From Janet Cosh Bequest
Illawarra Mercury
Wednesday July 7, 1999
A bequest by a respected Southern Highlands conservationist will fund a resource room at the Fitzroy Falls Visitors' Centre.
The late Janet Cosh willed $182,000 from her estate to the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) foundation on her death in 1987.
NPWS spokeswoman Diane Garrood said the staff at Fitzroy Falls had long wanted to find an appropriate way to honour Ms Cosh's memory.
Their hopes became a reality when the foundation recently approved funding for the construction of a resource room as an extension of the park's visitors' centre.
To be known as the Janet Cosh Memorial Resource Room, the facility would house a collection of its namesake's botanical drawings, books and a herbarium, Ms Garrood said.
Ms Garrood, who is the NPWS Nowra district manager, said the project would provide a ``fantastic opportunity for people to enhance their understanding and appreciation of natural heritage".
``I understand that she was a gracious lady with an important ambition - to educate all of us through the appreciation and understanding of the beauty in the flowers, trees and plants of the Southern Highlands," Ms Garrood said.
``The extension will be a wonderful tribute to a great lady. It will increase the environmental education component of what is already a major tourist destination."
Work on the resource centre would start in August and be finished by summer, she said.
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