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Hornsby Shire Mountain Bike Alliance (HSMBA) Invites Trail Ideas
The first HSMBA Newsletter has been sent to approximately 300 registered members. The Newsletter invites trail ideas AND requests all members to encourage another 1 or 2 friends to register with HSMBA. Please submit trail ideas by April 1st 2009 to [email protected]. There are various ways you can provide your trail ideas..
Glenrock Plan is Up
As discussed in NPWS - Draft Plan of Management for Glenrock the POM was coming. It's now out and can be found here:
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/parkmanagement...
There is an online form and you can complete a positive comment in seconds. Even something like, "I enjoy MTB riding and welcome legal single track and firetrail network in the park. I would be much more likely to visit Glenrock with these facilities in place." will do (although please don't copy that word for word as they weed out duplicates). So no more excuses - everyone should be commenting on this!
This is very important even for those living quiet a distance from Glenrock, as if passed in it's current form this plan will legalise single track in the park. If this happens we should all be using as an example of what can be done in other NPWS areas, and the benefit for Sydney riders should be pretty obvious in that light.
Huge thanks to Sammydog and co. for their work on this. They've done their bit, now it's time for us to do ours! Take a few seconds and use the comment form here:
Clean Up Australia Day at Oxford Falls
Just letting everyone know we are planning to do a clean up of the Oxford Falls DH tracks and surrounding area on Clean Up Australia Day on Sunday 1st March. See www.farkin.net/forums/showthread.php?t=162496 for further details.
Would be great if you could help out.
Dave
DH Coordinator MWMTB
Possible changes afoot in US national parks
Just read this on bikeradar. Hope they get a good outcome and we follow !
http://www.bikeradar.com/mtb/news/article/us-mou...
CB
Outdoor recreation in (Brisbane) Council's bushlands
Any QLD riders listening? You have an opportunity to complete the survey below which looks like a good initiative. Wonder if we'll get something like this from councils in Sydney?
For the record - if there's riding in an area I'm more likely to visit it! 
I hear there is good riding there in Gap Creek Reserve, Mt Coot-tha.
Outdoor recreation in Council's bushlands
NPWS - Draft Plan of Management for Glenrock
Its been a long time since I posted here on the Glenrock POM (not sure I have), or really had anything to post. I do now so I have created this thread as a spot for people to ask questions about, or discuss news as it arrives.
The big news is that the Draft POM is being launched on Monday 16th Feb. I will be at the launch and speaking to the politicians on offer, but basically the chance is just about here for everyone to have their say.
Ed: Update 22-Feb: The plan is now out for comment. It can be downloaded here (this page also includes details of how to comment):
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/parkmanagement...
I would encourage everyone to submit a comment. It doesn't have to be wordy, even something simple as, "Please adopt the network of MTB trails as I love the sport and this will encourage me to visit the park." will do (although please don't copy that word for word - they weed out duplicates).
Help save Oxford Falls Valley from development
Warringah Council has pritty much approved most the building of the 500 unit retirement village in oxford falls. At the organic market today the Oxford Falls Action Group was passing out some details on how people can help.
To voice your opinion you can visit the following site.
http://majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au/index.p...
Public Meeting - Monday 16 Feb @ 6pm
Oxford Falls Retirement Village Public Meeting
Monday 16 February 2009 - 5.30pm (6pm start)
Dee Why Civic Centre (Warringah Council).
Hornsby Unstructured Recreation Plan Passed
Very good news in from HSMBA today, regarding a council meeting last night:
For those who could not attend, the Unstructured Recreation Plan was PASSED but more specifically the NEED for a Mountain Bike track will be addressed as it was the only activity which received public comment (thanks to you guys!)
We are not sure where it goes from here, however we will get in touch with council to see what needs to be done. It's still very early days and we have a long road ahead of us before we put shovel to dirt.
Remember to check the website www.hsmba.info for news and updates!
What this means is that the council voted to accept the recommendations made in the following document:
https://businesspapers.hornsby.councilsonline.co...
Page 56 on paper which is actually 67 in the PDF.
Looks very promising to me - many thanks to all involved in the HSMBA initiative (and I urge you all to visit their site and register your interest)!
over 150 email/ letters
Just read on farkin that over 150 letters were received in support of the Hornsby MTB trail
Nice one
He says that most were from farkiners but I bet we had a fair bit to do with it as well
There is a meeting on tonight so should be interesting
Was your submission the the NP tourism taskfork counted?
There has been a bit of talk about the low number of submissions from the MTB community on the recent tourism taskforce.
Details of every submission is on this page (or if they move from there, they are also in the Appendix document):
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/parks/tourismt...
For the record, if you submitted comment supporting MTB access (which is clearly a very easy way to increase tourism and park use) to the taskforce and your submission is not listed please comment on this thread. Just a simple, "They forgot me - Fred Flintstone" will suffice.
Update: Please indicate if you sent your submission via email or regular postal mail.
Update: To clarify - we are talking about the NSW Tourism Taskforce for NSW National Parks as discussed on the DECC site above (not the other trail advocacy campaign about trails in Hornsby which seems to have had more support).
Please do not comment on this thread for any other reason. If you want to discuss this further please start another topic.