Stromlo Forest Park has a new event booking system which, unlike the previous one will actually tell you something useful. It is very unusual for equestrians to book trails at Stromlo and as far as we are aware only the endurance riders do so for their events which leave from the Mt Stromlo Road float parking area. However, everyone else has to book tracks and…
ACT Parks and Conservation Service are in the process of a website refresh and are looking for new images of our parks, reserves and forests to use. Jac Travers from Parks and Conservation Services is asking whether any Recreation Users amongst this group are able to share any imagery you have taken recently while out enjoying Canberra’s open spaces. The photo gaps they currently have…
Without any warning or fanfare today, the Minister for Parks (Mick Gentleman) released the long awaited revised Canberra Nature Park Reserve Management Plan. This document is now law having been approved by the Legislative Assembly. . You can read it at https://hdp-au-prod-app-act-yoursay-files.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/9716/3688/0713/Canberra_Nature_Park_Reserve_Management_Plan_2021.pdf The new Plan reflects most of the arguments ACTEA made in regard to the Draft which was produced for public comment way back…
An article in the RiotAct today reported that work is about to start on upgrading the road network in the National Arboretum. This mainly means sealing 4.5km of internal dirt roads to enable vehicles safely into a larger area of the Arboretum. River Road, Totara Road and Depot Road will be sealed and there will also be more parking bays provided at the intersection of…
For anyone who missed it. After years of stop and start there is a project Works Approval before the National Capital Authority for a development on the old Forest Park Riding School site on the Cotter Road next door to Equestrian Park. Here is a link to Ian Bushnell’s summary in the RiotAct https://the-riotact.com/ldk-proposes-143-million-aged-care-facility-on-the-edge-of-yarralumla/491691 If you want more detail see the application on the National…
ACTEA has been in communication with the Minister for Health today following the ACT Government’s meeting with the NSW Cross -border Commission and have the following update. We understand that the NSW Cross-Border Commissioner has confirmed that care of animals is a “reasonable excuse” for being out of home in NSW. ACT public health restrictions allow ACT residents and NSW border residents to cross the…
Rachel Stephen-Smith, the ACT Minister for Health, advises that , people can leave their home to feed and exercise their horse as necessary. They can also cross the border to/from the local region to do this (we have a set of postcodes that define the local region for the purposes of a standing exemption and these are on the website). This exemption applies to the…
In June this year two reports appeared on the Best of Canberra Your Say website, a Final Canberra Mountain Bike Report and a Draft Trail Development Plan. This was somewhat of a surprise since ACTEA and the ACT Endurance Riders Association understood from a meeting with Parks in August that they would “arrange a meeting with ACTERA once a trail designer has been engaged to…
Closure dates: 12.01am Monday 21st June – 11.59pm Friday 25th June. Closure area: Within Namadgi National Park, entire area east of Boboyan Road. This includes the entire BNT section from Caloola Farm, all the way to where it crosses Boboyan Rd near the southern border (Carey’s Fire Trail). Works being undertaken: aerial deer control program in response to growing concerns about the impacts of…
At some time in 2020 the management of the National Arboretum also became managers of Stromlo Forest Park (SFP). One of their first steps has been to revisit the 2016 Master Plan for SFP. The new managers are concerned Stromlo isn’t well placed to cope with the future impact of the surrounding suburban development. Already they see issues with the downhill trails due to limited…