Keep your powder dry folks. It looks like this battle will have to be revisited.
Gazing into grazing future marks low point for high-country greenies
Stephanie Bunbury
January 9, 2011''I haven't seen it looking like this in my lifetime,'' says Phil Ingamells, gazing at the field of Alpine daisies and emerging Billy Buttons and buttercups on a slope of Pretty Valley.
Environmentalist Phil Ingamelis (above) says he has never seen the park flourishing like it is now, and he worries that the return of cattle grazing will affect the flora, including wildflowers growing near Falls Creek (below).
Ingamells, who runs the Victorian National Parks Association's project on park protection, is keen to show what the alpine plains look like without cattle grazing on them, picking bits from the spongy sphagnum moss beds to show how it holds water and pointing out the way new bog pools are forming within it. He laughs as he confesses how excited he is by peat beds.
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I am afraid this is an entirely predictable outcome of the recent Victorian election. I wonder (no I do not) what the more vocal members of the Pluggers would say on that issue?
ReplyDeleteThanks for bringing to to wider attention.
Denis