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Save Mt Coolum Campaign. A Call to Arms. 29-Mar-2011 At 11:30:50 AM manacubus

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Just in case you don't want to go to qurank, allow me to post up some instructions to help you draft your email. Sorry for the ugly formatting but you get the idea. Thanks for the support Chockstoners. Remember, more responses is better. Climbers overall are such a minority compared to other user groups in Australia that we truly need as many people as possible to send an email in order to be taken seriously.

Phase 1 - Respond to the draft. Do this today, no time to waste!

We need as many people as possible to respond formally to the draft plan. It's much better if we don't use a form letter (copy-paste style submissions are treated as one submission). So please make a big effort and compose something along the line suggested below.

HOW TO WRITE YOUR EMAIL

Remember: Copy-paste style submissions are treated as one submission so you need to elaborate and write it yourself.

To: parkplans@derm.qld.gov.au
Re: Response to Draft Mount Coolum National Park Management Plan 2011

Attention: The Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability

Dear Madam

[perhaps introduce yourself and give some short background to your interest in Mt Coolum]

I am writing to respond to the Draft Mount Coolum National Park Management Plan 2011.

[Now here comes your writing. There is just the one action we need to concentrate on:

Action A28: Declare cliff-based activities a special activity under the Nature Conservation (Protected Area Management) Regulation 2006 in the area shown in Appendix A, Map2.

The key points to discuss:

Point 1 (good), you agree/support/think awesome/ the idea of managing the park for its unique/cool/awesome/magic conservation values. You absolutely support the development of climbing as a sustainable activity and would chastise/beat-up/persuade fellow climbers who did otherwise.

Point 2 (bad!), the way in which special activities are managed using permits, insurance and compulsory peak body membership is "at odds with how the climbing community works" / "just plain sucks" / "will be ignored" / "will cause conflict with the rangers" / "will set climbing back twenty years" / "will impede the progress of our young sports climbing athletes" /"is at odds with the declared aim of promoting nature-based recreation" / "is at odds with the Premiers Q2 Vision by placing barriers to outdoor recreation" / "discriminates against climbers as valid stake holders in the outdoor recreation community" / "a bureaucratically lazy way of dealing with the management issues" / "set to fail"]

[Feel free to elaborate as you like, but this simple two part message is the key]

Yours Faithfully

[Your Name, possibly include contact details]

ACAQ will be delivering a more detailed response that will be available for viewing on Friday.

If you don't have access to email, you can snail mail to here, but remember it has to reach DERM by Mon 4th April.

The Manager, Planning Services Unit
Conservation, Strategy and Planning
Draft Mount Coolum National Park Management Plan
Department of Environment and Resource Management
Level 4, 400 George Street
GPO Box 2454
BRISBANE QLD 4001