Showing posts with label Shooters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shooters. Show all posts

Friday 15 March 2013

This way lies O'Farrell madness


This national park is a place that protects old-growth forests,
rugged granite formations and picturesque valleys and gorges.
Koalas, powerful owls and giant burrowing frogs are among the
threatened species protected within a park which also shelters
the state’s only known populations of endangered long-footed potoroos.
 
ABC News on 14th March 2013:
There are concerns that motorists on the New South Wales south coast could be in the firing line under the State Government's plan to allow hunting in national parks.
The Greens have obtained a leaked document showing an area of the South East Forests National Park which straddles the Princes Highway has been designated "zone C".
This would mean unsupervised hunting would be allowed in that part of the park.
In the risk assessment document, parks workers raise concerns that the two-kilometre stretch of highway included within the zone is used daily by school buses, locals, tourists and tradespeople.
Greens MP David Shoebridge says the area lies just five kilometres north of the town of Merimbula.
"All the hunting was meant to be away from residential areas and the unsupervised parts, these so-called remote zone C parts of the national parks, were meant to be in the deepest, darkest parts of New South Wales," Mr Shoebridge said.
"But here we've got it right next to a township, right next to the busiest arterial road on the south coast which thousands of holiday makers and school kids use on a daily basis.
The document says park workers are also concerned about a mentally ill local resident who "tends to appear out of the bush without warning".
"The dangers are obvious to everyone apart from the Government," Mr Shoebridge said_____

Saturday 23 July 2011

Deliverance country?


An attempt to normalise the abnormal?

The Monday editions of the the Clarence valley's local paper, The Daily Examiner, regularly feature a stand-out happy snap of members of the local gun club.




What's next? Can readers expect to see weekly pics of people playing the pokies?