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End of the year FOBIF excusion to Bells Swamp

Posted on 15 October, 2016 by fobif

Bells Swamp is well known for its beautiful old Red gums, waterbirds and wetland plants. The area in flood again after our higher than average rainfall over the last few months. FOBIF is planning a one-off excursion to the swamp on Saturday 17 December … Continue reading →

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Local community conversation about fire

Posted on 15 October, 2016 by fobif

Understanding Fire in our Landscape: A Community Conversation is a community event being held on the weekend of the 12-13 November 2016, in Newstead. The project has been initiated by the Muckleford Forest Friends Group and based on one of the activities … Continue reading →

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Followup to the launch of FOBIF Eucalypt guide

Posted on 30 September, 2016 by fobif

If you missed the launch of the FOBIF publication, Eucalypts of the Mount Alexander Region, you can now see the morning’s proceedings thanks to Chris Timewell from Connecting Country who filmed the event and put together this terrific video. The guide … Continue reading →

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Parks Victoria: a recipe

Posted on 29 September, 2016 by fobif

FOBIF has made a submission to the Strengthening Parks Victoria consultation. The essence of the submission is set out below: ***** We welcome the opportunity to participate in this process, and offer our views under the headings supplied in the … Continue reading →

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Big turnout for Eucalyptus book launch

Posted on 26 September, 2016 by fobif

The Eucalypts of the Mount Alexander Region book is now launched and more than 200 copies were sold on the day. Bernard Slattery, Ern Perkins and Bronwyn Silver signed many copies and buyers also received 2 bookmarks with photos from … Continue reading →

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Update to FOBIF Chewton walk

Posted on 26 September, 2016 by fobif

Elaine Bayes and Damien Cook who were the leaders on our recent Chewton bush walk showed us that by looking closely at a small area you can often see an amazing number of plants. They identified 25-30 in the square metre they selected. … Continue reading →

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Strengthening Parks Victoria [1]: it’s the money, stupid

Posted on 22 September, 2016 by fobif

What can be done to strengthen Parks Victoria? Currently Parks is running a community engagement campaign designed to elicit new ideas about how our parks system can run better. You can find details about the campaign, and how you can … Continue reading →

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Strengthening Parks Vic [2]: have your say!

Posted on 22 September, 2016 by fobif

For this reason, we believe it would be good if a lot of people responded to this consultation process. You don’t have to take a lot of time about it. Click here and tell Parks what you think: or, by clicking … Continue reading →

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Strengthening Parks Vic [3]: we hope this phrase isn’t sinister

Posted on 22 September, 2016 by fobif

The consultation project will culminate with the production of a final report, which will focus on: A community vision for parks Legislative and policy reform A modern business in government. We haven’t been able to find out what the last … Continue reading →

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Victoria’s parks burning: an intriguing statistic

Posted on 22 September, 2016 by fobif

Some of the info revealed in the Parks Victoria discussion paper is predictable. Some is quite disturbing: for example, we learn that Parks Victoria administers 18% of Victoria—but contributes 50% of the planned burning target. This is an eloquent reminder … Continue reading →

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