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The May 24 information session was followed by a briefing by researchers who produced the Box Ironbark mosaic burning project [see our Posts here, here and here]. As we reported last week, possibly the biggest question raised by this project … Continue reading →

The opening of our Trees of the Mount Alexander Shire photo show at the Newstead Railway Arts Hub will take place next Saturday (4 June) at 10.30. Bernard Slattery will open the show and Julie Patey from The Hub is bringing along home made … Continue reading →

FOBIF is excited to announce that we have been successful in our Mount Alexander Shire Council Community Grant application which will fund the FOBIF 2016 Winter School Holiday Program. This year has an indigenous peoples theme and we will be … Continue reading →

Noel Young sent these photos to us after we we had posted our walks article.  They provide a terrific record of the walk so we decided to post them in the gallery below. We are not one hundred percent sure of the identification … Continue reading →

  The FOBIF exhibition, Trees in the Mount Alexander Region, is being held in 2 locations this year, TOGS and the new Newstead Railway Arts Hub. The TOGS show which finished recently was a great success with lots of positive responses and sales … Continue reading →

In late 2015, a group of people came together at a symposium, called Managing Victoria’s Biodiversity under Climate Change, in Melbourne. More than 200 scientists and audience members with years of practical experience discussed the state-of-play and options for the future. The … Continue reading →

FOBIF has made a brief submission to the Biodiversity discussion paper. The substance of the submission is set out at the end of this post. The discussion paper is worth a look, tossing quite a few provocative ideas. Among them: … Continue reading →

FOBIF has made a submission to the Water for Victoria Discussion paper. The substance of the submission is set out below: Although we believe that there are many useful ideas in the document, we are disappointed in its tendency to … Continue reading →

We had a parliamentary enquiry in 2008. And then a Royal Commission. And then an investigation into the effects of the Royal Commission’s recommendations. Now the Legislative Council has instituted an enquiry into fire preparedness. Perhaps all these enquiries are … Continue reading →