Comments on: Dingo fences – do we need them?

By: Dude

Dude — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:56:27 +0000

Amusing. I like it. Will it be continued?

By: Sue

Sue — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:48:11 +0000

I will be awaiting your letter to Council and I will ask questions about any proposed tree ‘pruning’. When writing to Council it is always a good idea to cc Councillors otherwise we may not receive copies of your correspondence.
I personally believe that safety issues are evolving in a way that attempts to wrap us all in cotton wool.
Yes trees fall down and fires can burn the countryside and a dingo can bite you but surely we are mature enough to judge for ourselves when to take risks or not! I would like the legal profession to start to make decisions based on common sense versus stupidity.
If you trip over and fall down because of someone being negligent yes I agree some compensation is in order but if you simply don’t take care about where you are placing your feet you don’t.
If I want to sit under a tree and it drops a branch and flattens me that is my problem and I don’t want to see every tree lopped or removed or fenced off ‘just in case’…
Sue

By: Us

Us — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:08:58 +0000

This comment is not about dingo fences, but relates to your belief that we need to accept responsibility for our actions, rather than ‘blame nature’

At our last Progress Association Meeting, it was moved that Council ‘should look at’ gum trees at the boat ramp at Big Tuan. Recently, one dropped a limb and it fell on the side of the toilet roof.
I am extremely concerned that this ‘look at’ will be the start of a wholesale cutting down of these trees which have been there for decades and provide homes and nesting sites, year after year, for several families of sea eagles and kites; shade for boaties; stability for the banks and foreshores, food and shelter for many other species of birds, animals and insects – not to mention considerable natural beauty and amenity.
The trees were already there – people came along and parked under the trees for the shade.
Now, I believe they are in grave danger of being removed or cut down, just leaving the stump to sprout. This must not happen!
We should accept the risk when we park under a tree – or go and park somewhere else.
Please maintain a watch for this letter to Council from Progress – and do your best to make sure that these trees are not cut; that the Sea Eagles and Kites are not disturbed or their nests/roosts threatened, and the natural vegetation of this particular spot (which provides a valuable filter system, protecting the waterways) is not damaged or destroyed.
If we can do anything more to prevent what I foresee, please reply and let us know what else you think we can do.
Many thanks for your great work, Sue.

By: Us

Us — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:04:55 +0000

At our last Progress Association Meeting, it was moved that Council ‘should look at’ gum trees at the boat ramp at Big Tuan. Recently, one dropped a limb and it fell on the side of the toilet roof.
I am extremely concerned that this ‘look at’ will be the start of a wholesale cutting down of these trees which have been there for decades and provide homes and nesting sites, year after year, for several families of sea eagles and kites; shade for boaties; stability for nthe banks and foreshores, food and shelter for many other species of birds, animals and insects – not to mention considerable natural beauty and amenity.
The trees were already there – people came along and parked under the trees for the shade.
Now, I believe they are in grave danger of being removed or cut down, just leaving the stump to sprout. This must not happen!
We should accept the risk when we park under a tree – or go and park somewhere else.
Please maintain a watch for this letter to Council from Progress – and do your best to make sure that these trees are not cut; that the Sea Eagles and Kites are not disturbed or their nests/roosts threatened, and the natural vegetation of this particular spot (which provides a valuable filter system, protecting the waterways) is not damaged or destroyed.
If we can do anything more to prevent what I foresee, please reply and let us know what else you think we can do.
Many thanks for your great work, Sue.