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Mount Alexander Shire Biodiversity Strategy – A Critical Opportunity

Friends of Box Ironbark Forests has joined with Connecting Country and the Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club to prepare a joint submission on the development of the Mount Alexander Shire Biodiversity Strategy. You can view the submission here. We prepared this … Continue reading

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The Loddon Company Race, Irishtown walk, Sunday June 21

  It’d been pretty wet leading up to Sunday for the scheduled FOBIF walk led by Steve Charman and, in retrospect, the conditions undoubtedly made the 5km walk a little more challenging than intended. Around 10am, a party of about … Continue reading

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Harry Nankin’s Acts of Ritual, 2020-24

A beautiful profile from Harry Nankin, published in- View Camera Australia News & views about Australian large format camera users and darkroom photographers   I live near the bottom of a shallow squiggle of the Great Dividing Range, in the … Continue reading

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Four Corners on native forest logging in Victoria

From Victorian National Parks Association- Did you catch ABC’s Four Corners last week? The investigation took a close look at what’s really happened since native forest logging in Victoria was supposed to end. Despite $1.5 billion of public money to … Continue reading

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Walk this Sunday: Loddon Company Race

21 June   The Loddon Company Race, Irishtown    The Loddon Company Race, constructed in 1866, predating the Coliban system, retains many relics of its fascinating and long history. This walk will take a 6 km loop, heading out along the Vaughan arm … Continue reading

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