Author Archives: SAVE Mt Canobolas SCA

There were few empty seats in Orange City Bowling Club’s Skylight Room on Saturday when the Gannha-bula Action Group held its first community meeting.  Over 100 people turned up to hear from Wiradjuri elders and other community members opposed to Orange City Council’s plan to put a 100km bike trail in the State Conservation Area of Mountain Canobolas (“Gannha-bula”Continue reading “MEDIA REPORT | | Mount Canobolas bike trail: Gannha-bula Action Group to fight proposal”

A newly-formed action group against Orange City Council’s proposed mountain bike trail will hold its first community meeting this weekend. The Gannha-bula (Mount Canbolas’ traditional name in Wiradjuri) Action Group is led by Wiradjuri elders and leaders who oppose the 100km network of bike trails which council is hoping to build in the conservation area.Continue reading “MEDIA REPORT | Orange action group against Mount Canobolas bike trail to host meeting”

I am astounded by the hypocrisy of the mayor, Reg Kidd’s concern for saving the nursing quarters, which are to be demolished, even though they hold heritage and historical value for the city. Yet he approves 100 kilometres of mountain bike tracks on Gaanha-bula (Mount Canobolas) which will cause destruction and desecration to our AboriginalContinue reading “Letter to the Editor |  Mt Canobolas’ story”

Wiradjuri elder Uncle Neil Ingram Senior doesn’t normally like speaking to the media, but when he read that Orange City Council had been working closely with “all members of the Aboriginal community” to install a mountain bike trail on Mt Canobolas, he said he needed to speak up. “We totally reject the mountain bike proposal inContinue reading “MEDIA REPORT | Orange council Mt Canobolas bike trail opposed by Wiradjuri elders”

Council has not released how much they have already spent on the proposed Mountain Bike Trails on Mount Canobolas after numerous requests. Also, they have not given an estimate of the cost to build the tracks, a figure on how much it will cost to maintain the tracks and an overall management plan. I haveContinue reading “Letter to the Editor |  Time for our say on track”

I would like to take issue with councillor Jason Hamling’s assertion that 100 km of new bike trail will somehow solve the weed problem in Mount Canobolas State Conservation Area (Central Western Daily, October 19). Clearing vegetation will cause disturbance to the soil and will allow more light in, providing perfect conditions for weed growth.Continue reading “Letter to the Editor |  Bike tracks worsen weed problems, not alleviate them.”

In the Central Western Daily (October 14), ‘Trail Will Desecrate Mountain’, Allan Reeder on behalf of Orange City Council stated that construction of mountain bike trails in the Mt Canobolas State Conservation Area will increase visitors giving national parks (NPWS) the budget they need to deal with the weeds. Where will this increased income forContinue reading “Letter to the Editor |  Does Mt Canobolas trail add up?”

In a time of crisis, as is the current case of the environment, why would you look to place additional and irreversible harm on a significant natural area?   We hear and read regularly from scientists expressing their alarm at our extinction crisis, what has occurred and what will occur if we do not actContinue reading “Letter to the Editor |  There is no other place like Mount Canobolas (Gaahna-bulla) on this earth…”

An environmental alliance say that they would, in fact, like to see a 100km network of mountain bike trails built on Mt Canobolas, it just shouldn’t be in the conservation area.The current area earmarked for Orange City Council trail’s development is in the State Conservation Area (SCA) and has an “extraordinarily high biodiversity”, according toContinue reading “MEDIA REPORT | Mt Canobolas pine forest better for trail, not conservation area: CCA”