Kalang roadside clearing
Another year has passed, 2025 Last week the forest mulchers came along the Kalang Road clearing the roadsides for better visibility and around areas for new culverts and drains.
They have created a much better opportunity to see traffic ahead.
Roadsides often contain rare and important vegetation and habitat. Several young endangered scrub turpentine trees were reduced to pulp as they were on the 4m slashing zone. It is important that people who have identified these and other rare plants have them listed on bio map so the council is aware of their existence. It is also a good idea to clearly mark them with a hi vis vest or some thing to make them clearly visible. These two-scrub turpentine, had not been marked. The council ecologist should map and mark these roadsides for significant trees and plants.
The gutters are now full of debris and the wet season fast approaches.
Some significant trees have been left with ugly messy wounds, which will attract disease and if low on the trunk may shorted the life of the trees by decades. We need someone to follow through with a chainsaw and some one to clear the drains.
The Kalang Road is more dangerous than ever at the moment with all the roadworks going on, and we are grateful for the extra safety that the roadside clearing has provided, but these resulting issues need to be addressed.
Louise Cranny
President Kalang Progress Association
Dangerous Risks Bellinger River Mylestom
Along the Riverbank at Mylestom there were Posts and Chains to signify the Grass Edge.
Council subsequently planted a Garden along the Edge.
They also installed a low Chook Wire fence ( Removed as rusted away).
Recently Council engaged landcare contractor to rid Riverbank of Lantana and other weeds.
This again exposed the Chain and posts
In about 4 places the posts and chain have collapsed over the Edge.
The rotted and fallen Logs combined with the fallen Posts and Chains have created a Dangerous Risk.
With Holidays fast approaching, I believe at the very least Orange Barrier Mesh should be installed.
We have made Council aware of this major risk for nearly 25years.
Except for some weed control and Cliff Edge signs, nothing has been done.
Trevor Williams
Ladies and Gentlemen No More
A spell of warm weather and an unprecedented amount of leaf litter on the forest floor, and a predicted possibility of a warm dry summer. Keep those matches locked away. Via the creation of the GKNP and many forestry workers booted out, should the worse occur, these people via their experience and knowledge having always made a huge contribution in controlling bushfires will be hard to replace. Don’t expect our green brigade to fill the gap.
Can recall some years back warning the boys to step aside, as the girls were about to step up. That physical world where Dad was the bread winner and Mum left with the task of doing the housework, and rearing the kids, and often the veggie patch as well. Have often felt the mums copped the rough end of the pineapple, but for better or worse that family unit the backbone of society for many generations is slipping away. The birthrate is declining as the career lady has evolved, young kids into childcare. To be missing those very early days with the little ones, a big loss for both the babies and their parents. The average marriage now claimed to endure for only 14 years, hence the rapid growth in single mums. All the above said, why the surprise at the outbreak of juvenile crime, kids growing up with no discipline due to the breakup of the old family unit.
Onto this trans gender garbage, with Australia reportedly one of the declining countries lacking the backbone to publicly accept that a biological man, is a man a biological woman is a woman. This is causing much distress and confusion within our younger generation, also promoted via our education system. Not opposed to gay relationships man with man and woman with woman, but this trans gender thing is insane with far reaching consequences.
Imagine a farmer forking out big bucks for a bull to put with his cows to discover he is transgender.
No one to-day would pass the pub test by addressing an audience commencing with Ladies and Gentlemen, a bygone era.
Some good news nearing 83 for old buggers like me. A survey conducted has concluded with the suggestion not to worry about old age as it doesn’t last long.
Have a good one for Christmas while the opportunity still exists.
Darcy Browning