END OF AN ERA_HIGH COUNTRY GRAZING

Please let it be publicly known ... that I had nothing whatsoever to do with with putting this spineless rabble in charge of our State.

To those of you that did .... you got your right whack!!

f2000,

Also on 3aw today Neil Mitchell was onto the photo's that are being used as propaganda by the gov't to 'sell' there argument.

Seems that there are two shots, one of a dreary looking bog hole with a couple of cows standing in it, and the other of a beautiful lush green mountainous region with a family enjoying the view, the only problem is that the photo of the family and beautiful view is apparently of one of the ski resorts (Hotham I think) during summer but with all the chair lifts etc "air brushed" out of the shot.

Fairdinkum misreprasentation of the issue.

$250'000 of tax payer scam

I remeber on my last trip (or maybe the one before) to the high country we came across 6 or 8 Cows on a track and had to crawl past'em as they lined either side of the road, the look of sheer exitement on my little blokes face (2 1/2) as the cattle peered in the window only inches from him was a magnificent moment.

Browny

Calm down big fella, Agree with the blackberries comment and the likely next stage but you emotive arguments are lacking substance.

Hoofed animals do untold damage to the native flora that we drive there to see. Seen any wildflowers or native orchids in the local cow paddock lately??

If they don't burn the bush to reduce fuel it doesn't regerate very well and when fires do start they are overly destructive. If they do undertake ecological burns in the bush to reduce fuel and initiate regeration like it has been done for 20,000 years or so, people whinge about it.

Regards,

Darren

I am glad that they will be banned. The farmers around Merrijig that use Stirling, and the Alpine National Park north of Mt Buller are a problem. My parents were almost killed a few years ago when they were travelling at night between Merrijig and Mt Buller. They rounded a bend and hit a fully grown cow head on on the road at 100. The car was totalled and they sustained serious injury. The beast was one that was being moved between a farm and Alpine Grazing in a heard. The farmer had left it on the road because he failed to count his cows before moving them along.

I have almost hit stray cows on the same stretch of road on several occasions.

The second problem is with the local townships water supply in Merrijig, Alpine Ridge and Sawmill Settlement. The cows $hit into it above the pick up points resulting in a heap of chemical use to reduce e-coli. Which is science talk for $hit. Our water supply smells like chlorinated swimming pool water. This is so as we do not get sick. Water Authorities tell us that when the Alpine Grazing is gone so will the chemicals as the water is the purest spring water in th estate.

Good riddence to the cows. Good on you Bracksy

deja vu... see post 23268

People,
Such emotion!
How about a few facts?
It is not all the high country we are talking about, it is the national park, the rest is unchanged. I actually have no time at all for the folk who manage our national parks, and blackberries really get up my goat, but, a national park is just that, and it is no place for cattle.
If you think cows are so romantic you can see them anywhere else. I really struggle with this cowboy stuff. I would rather see the native animals, and eat the cows.
Ian