All you campers, prospectors, hunters, horse riders and 4wd's take note of what VEAC and the greenies are trying to do, and will do if they win the next election.This is a cut and paste from the F/B BUGU page
Rita BentleyAdmin · 7 hrsI've been doing more investigation into VEAC's report and although the news is bad for prospectors it is even worse for recreational hunting. It is proposed that hunting be prohibited in all categories except State Forest. Since there is only 10,180 hectares of the current 89,278 hectares still to be State Forest you guys should be as angry as I still am.
Those activities that stick to formed roads and vehicle tracks are, for the moment, no more restricted. But if you want to camp you will need to stick to designated campgrounds.
Horse riding on formed roads and tracks but no camping, grazing or feeding - forget National parks, Conservation Parks, maybe Regional Parks and Nature Reserves.
Dog walkers are generally excluded from NP's, Conservation Parks and Nature Reserves.
There isn't much in the way of positive news for firewood collectors either, Banned in all areas of the Wellsford, the only area it will be permitted around Daylesford is in the Wombat Regional Park. The Pyrenees/Mt Cole areas - in the Pyrenees Regional Park and the remaining, very precious to us, State Forest. VEAC are talking about a new licence system for firewood collection as well.
The general public needs this news as many are totally unaware and will remain that way until they ask 'what the hell happened?'
Can we all please spread the word about the BUGU FB page and VEAC's intentions? We will try to prepare a fact sheet over coming days and post that. The BUGU map is still current so please share that and if you need printed copies please personal message me or any other admin. We will need a donation to cover post etc but $5 should cover it with a bit left over for other uses during the campaign. Why not include an order for car stickers @ $2 each?
