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Recording of ‘Challenging the Myth of Fuel Load Reduction’-Karl Just
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Loddon River walk, Baringhup. Sunday 20th April.
Loddon River Baringhup
This is a continuation downstream along the Loddon River from the finishing point of the 2024 walk. Starting at the Jennings’ farm near Baringhup, we walk to Hamilton’s crossing; a distance of about 5km. We will have a bus at the finish for the return journey. Barry Golding will talk at points of interest along the way and will have a few copies of his book, ‘Six Peaks Speaks’ for sale.
We will be leaving Community House, Templeton Street, Castlemaine at 9.30am. Please arrive by 9.20am to sign in and organise car-pooling. Alternatively, you can arrive at the Jennings’ farm, 1376 Baringhup-Eddington Road, Baringhup by 10am.
The walk will finish mid-afternoon, so bring morning tea, lunch and drinking water. We will be walking through long grass and unformed tracks so wear sturdy footwear and long pants or gaiters.
Contact Gen Blades 0431 371 065 or Lisa Hall 0488 102 191.
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Planned Burns; an online talk by FOBIF committee member Karl Just, next Tuesday
Do you want to learn more about how planned burns are damaging our ecosystems? And how they don’t they achieve their purported aim of reducing fuel loads. This will be a great talk by FOBIF committee member, Karl Just. We hope that this discussion will prompt investigation into how these burns cause damage to our local forests.
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Yoorrook Justice Commission tonight on Four Corners
The important work of the Yoorrook Justice Commission is the first formal truth-telling process into historical and ongoing injustices experienced by First Peoples in Victoria.
Tonight Four Corners gives an insight into the Yoorrook Justice Commission. You can watch it on the ABC Monday 24 March at 8.30pm, or later on https://iview.abc.net.au/show/four-corners .
First Peoples & descendants of early colonial figures reflect on their ancestor’s legacies & shared their truth with the Yoorrook Commissioners.
From the beginning of colonisation in Victoria, unique insights into key moments in time – from early massacres to the passing of harmful legislation, as well as the strength, resistance and achievements of Victoria’s First Peoples are shared.
The truth of the past, and how this connects with the present, is vital to our future.
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Fryers Ridge Nature Conservation Reserve Walk
After the long dry summer, Frances Cincotta got lucky with the weather for the first FOBIF walk of 2025. The group enjoyed seeing the bush soak up the cool air and gentle rain in a 5 km circuit along the Fryers Ridge Road and Antonios Track through the Fryers Forest.Although the diverse shrub layer was showing all the stresses of the last few weeks, the rapidly responding mosses and lichens were a highlight, almost visibly expanding to absorb the welcome showers.We saw a large flock of Whitebrowed Wood Swallows, and dense clouds of swarming termites along the track nearby. The rain may have provoked both events. According to Simpson and Day, flying insects are the swallows’ main diet and the birds cluster and roost closely together after a marked fall in temperature such as we saw on Sunday.Deirdre Slattery
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