'morning all in the West.
I've just read the meeeting report where TrackCare WA met with a
ranger from CALM to discuss the above. It's a bit disappointing to say the least and it seems to be a foregone conclusion that our access to any of that area will gradually be stopped by the faceless bureaucrats in the Water Corp or CALM for any reason they like.
How is it that in the other states they can use water catchments for
recreation yet we are so restricted here as to what we can do, which is not much, and what we can't do which is just about anything, because they believe pollution of the catchment will occur!
In this case they've cited erosin of tracks causing mud to enter the water ........ so what?
Surely it will sink and haven't they got filters on the system?
I believe we should cause as little damage as possible but haven't these bureaucrats got just too much power to restrict those that pay their excessive wages?
Why not just temporary closures at times when major damage could be caused?
Why not locked gates with keys being held by clubs? That may help to keep the yahoos out at least.
We're being restricted further and further all the time, beach driving not allowed in so many areas such as north of
Perth around the Alkimos area.
No driving or access to the beach through land which is going to be torn apart by the bulldozers and scrapers in the not too distant future!
(Don't dare take any native plants from these
places either or you'll be fined massive amounts to protect the species!)
Have you noticed that where new subdivisions are going ahead the work nearly always takes place during Spring thereby causing far more damage to the local flora and fauna than any of us will do in a lifetime!
Is it asking too much that in such a grossly over governed nanny state such as ours that we be treated as responsible adults occassionally and the real wreckers such as the developers were taken to task for what they do?
That's my rant for this morning but sometimes I feel those that control what we do are heading towards keeping us strictly on the blacktop.
Alan H.