Tuesday, 15 August 2023

Plenty Gorge Park

Bev McARTHUR (Western Victoria) incorporated the following (394):

My adjournment matter is for the Minister for the Environment, and concerns the management of the Plenty Gorge Park.

Given its proximity to Plenty, Greensborough and other suburbs, there is real concern about the growing fuel load present in the Park.

While weather conditions and patters may have mitigated against fire in the last couple of years, they can quickly change. The level of fuel-load does not.

The action I seek, Minister, is a commitment from Parks Victoria that appropriate fuel load management is carried out in the Park – including via removal or burns – and the publication of information which reassures the public that sufficient action has been taken in recent years, and that an adequate forward program for fuel reduction is established.