LOPS, Very few people who are not in the VNPA or are rusted on bush walkers/ back country snow sports fiends who care about nature and preserving Nat. parks seem to know about this FHAC DMP. Some of the Maroondah and Dandenong Valley Bushwalking club people on the B.H.P. , just recently on my walk, knew about it and were not impressed.
I have always suspected that the two big ski resorts are behind this scheme and I have made many references in my long submission to PV, to Mt. Hotham resort and Falls Creek resort using the DMP as trojan horse for annexing their own backyards by way of incremental privatization and commercialization of what is protected under the Nat. parks act as a conservation zone. Falls Ck. is cycling mad at the moment and this can only increase. Mt Buller/Mt. Stirling has been flogging the green season cycling caper for some time now too.
Melb. is becoming increasingly built up , filled with freeways, horrid steel and glass towers and cubes that are not human friendly, in every suburb , congested, ugly and its aesthetic appeal is dwindling. So leaving our Nat. parks undeveloped is increasingly important so people can find somewhere where there is N O mobile ph. reception and has little sign of development . The Jagungal Wilderness in N.S.W . has this quality even more than the Bogong High Plains does.
Statistics: Posted by paidal_chalne_vala — Wed 01 Feb, 2017 8:17 am