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Wednesday, October 29, 2003

"For to long, we have had emotional arguments and rhetoric from the green movement promoting firstly, the cessation of logging in the Otways, and now the locking up of the Otways so only bushwalkers can use it. . If the Otways are included in one vast National Park, there will be no access for four wheel drivers, trail bikers, horse riders, dog walkers, shooters, bee keepers, fire wood collectors and campers, as these activities are simply not allowed in National Parks.

People keep touting tourism as the saviour once logging has ceased, but many of those that are currently tourists will have no desire to come to the Otways if they can’t drive or ride or camp as they have in the past. " from geoff

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