Friends of the Box-Ironbark Forests

The Draft Proposals Paper for VEAC’s Historic Places Investigation will be released for public comment on Thursday 22 October 2015 and made available on that day on the VEAC website. VEAC is holding three information sessions on the Paper, one of which is in Castlemaine, on Friday 30 October 2015  from 10:30 am to 11:30 am at the Ray Bradfield Room, in Victory Park.

If you want to attend an information session you’ll need to contact VEAC prior to the relevant session to register your attendance: Phone:   1800 134 803 (Free call outside Melbourne) or email veac@delwp.vic.gov.au

FOBIF has made a submission to this process, and will be taking a keen interest in the draft paper. Our submission can be found here. Other submissions can be read on VEAC’s website.

The Guildford Progress Association has written a considered letter to the Mount Alexander Shire to express concern over plans to prune the tree in the interests of its long term health [see our Post]. It essentially argues that the proposed pruning is unnecessary and potentially damaging to the tree. The Association’s letter can be found at this link. The letter is worth reading for the detailed case it makes for leaving the tree as it is, naturally altered by the cyclone of early this year; and it asks that the Council supply a credible arborist assessment before any work is done on the tree.

 The Camp Out on the Mount is on again next weekend, 17-18 October.  As well as the Pine Purge on Saturday there are lots of other activities. To find out more click on the poster to the left. There is also more information on the Connecting Country website.