A meeting involving people prememinent in the fields of applied botany and land management addressed a country audience last week to encourage them to continue as they knew what they were talkingabout .
That this meeting express its great dissatisfaction with the preemphory and unscientific discussion as presented by the Esplin Inquiry.

(4) That a small delegation led by Athol Hodgson is granted an urgent meeting with Minister John Thwaits to discuss the enormous damage to the environment; why it happened and what we must do in the future to stop it happening again.

(5) A motion to call upon the Coroner to inquire into the 2003 bushfires and make real recommendations on how the bush can be managed in the future.

(6) That the Victorian Government actively maintains and promotes Alpine Grazing in both forests and parks to
(a) assist in fuel reduction management
(b) for the benefit of maintaining local knowledge.

Been a lot of burning this year , because the government is learning .Fair way to go before they could really do what integrated planners used to do - look after the environmnet . Pity all this learning and burning is at the publics expense and a few wannabe s whims >

Parliament supports a complete downgrading of the old LCC / VEAC independance - its independance is not constitutionally secure after the Otways enquiry set terms of reference that restrict its ability to recommend management diversity !
You wouldn't think these big picture conservationists ( so named) would stymy the independance of the scientific tribunal would you? "Can't answer that - not in our terms of reference" the scientists from VEAC have said.