No…Not Springbrook! 24.8.13 This story makes me both angry and sad – When I was a child my mum’s uncle (a forest ranger) owned a small cottage up in Springbrook that he’d built himself. It had a wall full of swords and knives he’d brought back from his travels, a tree outside with bottles hanging in it (to ward off evil spirits he told us) and a double bed that dropped from the wall so that my parents had somewhere to sleep. He also had a composting toilet, a recycling bin under the kitchen floor accessed by a tiny hatch and a room full of antique books. His property edged a small creek that ended up dropping over a high waterfall and in the summers there we’d canoe along that creek, or swing from a rope and drop into the freezing cold waters. The trees were lush around and in the mornings you could see brightly coloured birds flying through the mist or dropping down into Uncle Clem’s back yard to feed. Now, I read that the QLD State Government is set to start logging in national parks and Springbrook on the Gold Coast Hinterland is on the top of their hit list. Apparently there is a lack of loggable timber on Crown lands and the greedy QLD government wants to sneak into national parks. "This puts Springbrook, along with various other national parks, at risk of being opened to logging," said Green’s senator, Larissa Waters. This is despite the fact that Queensland has one of the smallest and most heavily used national park estates in the nation, and, that $40 million was spent by the previous government buying land to ADD to Springbrook and the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage area. goldcoast.au/article/2013/04/16/450388_gold-coast-news.html
Posted on: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 05:53:53 +0000
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