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Survey feedback requested on The Pines campground 13-May-2015 At 9:47:18 AM Wendy

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On 12/05/2015 One Day Hero wrote:
>On 12/05/2015 Wendy wrote:
>>There was nowhere to list my concerns with the pines in the survey (which
>>are myriad and don't really fit into a single "other" box
>
>Good point Wends. There needs to be a tickbox for "I'm Natimuk gentry,
>so the mere sight of unwashed hippy filth polluting my private training
>venue disgusts me"
>
>Also maybe "I haven't actually camped in the pines for over a decade,

>so I don't want or need a campground at Arapiles"

yadda yadda yadda yadda ... I have probably spent more actual nights camped in the pines over the last 25 years than most people on here, so surely if anyone was going to be attached to the "tradition" of goddamn pines, I would be?? And are you saying that I am not unwashed hippy filth anymore but in fact "gentry"? Or that the average climber actually is unwashed hippy filth? I thought theywere all well off owners of flash subarus these days? and didn't your abandoned degree get as far as teaching you about good research methods and constructing surveys:)?

Whilst I rarely camp at the Mt now, again I would still actually spend more time at the Mt than most. So i have to see these shitty bloody pine trees where there could be something continuous with all the surrounding vegetation. Plus i spend more than enough time camping elsewhere to be realistic about providing reasonable camping. If pines were the ideal campsite tree, why don't we just plant them in the gramps, buffalo, frog, assorted other national parks around the country? The pines is a wind blasted dusty hole most of the year. Native veg would provide shade and wind shelter. allow undergrowth (once the bloody acidity is rebalanced). Feed and shelter native wildlife. Look good. Flower in various seasons. What is so awful about that?