Land plan wins support
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Sound practices here are long overdue, with excessive fuel buildup as well as the problems outlined by Mr Carter in the Wildflower Drive area.
Parks Victoria has been very reticent about hazard reductions in this area.
They have refused to cut down dead trees near properties adjacent to this park, and proposed extensive fuel reduction burns at inappropriate times AND over inappropriately large areas simultaneously!
Hopefully a more rational approach from the inclusion of traditional practices in land and forest management will prove beneficial.
Jan Van Der Spek, Strathdale
Prospectors want access
I agree with better park management, but we should remember all who benefit from prospecting in these areas and not lock them out.
Parks are for everyone to enjoy, not a chosen few.
Jason Cornish, Dunolly
Support for ducks
I wish to express the importance of banning duck shooting season.
It saddens me that in today's world this even takes place.
These beautiful beings value their lives as much as we all do and what right do we have to decide to have a duck killing season.
I hope my letter is taken seriously and does not fall on deaf ears.
Let's create a more peaceful world and stop this unnecessary killing.
Let's have compassion and let it start with banning duck shooting season.
Suzannah See, Fletcher
Praise for hospital
My wife had a minor procedure at Bendigo hospital this week.
When you haven't been there for a while, it is easy to forget what a magnificent facility it is, and how fortunate we are.
The staff are great; the care first class.
There is always the complaint heard about waiting times and surgical waiting lists, but that is beyond the control of those working at the hospital.
It is all controlled by funding, and there is only so much in the government coffers, and there are other demands.
For example, permanently mooring two gigantic tunnel boring machines under Melbourne is an immensely expensive project.
We should remember how fortunate we are to have such a facility.
Murray McPhie, Epsom
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