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WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016
30 years of Rotary in Yea
■ A protest group says logging is about to start in the Toolangi State Forest, despite the Andrews Labor State Government announcing a reprieve for habitats of the endangered Leadbeaters Possum. The Deep Wilderness Adventure Society says Vicforests intends to harvest timber in the Imperium and Utopia coupes in the Toolangi State Forest, before possum surveys are completed.
● Jeannie Handsaker, President of the Rotary Club of Yea, with guest speaker Steve Abbott, Manager Tourist Services, Warrnambool City Council, at the club’s 30th Anniversary Celebration at the Yea Shire Hall on Thursday.
VicForests is a Stateowned business responsible for the sustainable harvest, regrowing and commercial sale of timber from public forests on behalf of the Victorian Government. The Deep Wilderness Adventure Society says the Greens politician Samantha Dunn, MLC for Eastern Metropolitan, believed she had won a State Government reprieve that was to have halted logging at the Imperium coupe. “However Vicforests intend to commence logging before the official surveys are completed,” claims the Society.
Rally against timber harvesting in Toolangi State Forest
The group held a protest rally in the main street of Healesville on Sunday afternoon (May 15), marching back to the Shire of Yarra Ranges offices. “Despite being taken off the schedule for immediate logging, both Imperium and Utopia coupes are on Vicforests Timber Release Plan , scheduled for logging at a later date,” the Society said. The Society claimed that State Environment Minister Lisa Neville “has failed to publicly state that ‘Utopia’ is safe from the Vicforests chainsaws.
● Charter members to attend Thursday’s 30th anniversary meeting of the Rotary Club of Yea at the Shire Hall were (from left) John Tainton, Graeme Broadbent, Ash Long, Daryl Callander, Les Hall, Adrian Sier, Ric Long, Peter Hauser, Don Lawson and Gary Fitzgerald. Roy Fox, who with the late Reg Scott, ● Exchange student Bruna Oliveira Da Rocha from Brazil with helped organise the club’s formation in 1986, is seated at front. Photo: Glenda Woods Tracey Ukosich of Flowerdale at the Yea Rotary celebration.
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