Donation for remote tracks maintenance

[tastrax]

Just listed on the Wildcare Tasmania Facebook page

Generous donation to support wild walking tracks

Some days are just a bit more special than most.

Recently I met two people who have a passion for natural areas, National Parks and bushwalking in Tasmania. And although their adventure horizons may be shorter these days, the memories of the time spent walking the wilds of Tasmania continue to fuel their imagination. As a result, they decided to give something back. Something very significant and very special.

Tasmania’s walking tracks give us life’s great journeys. Time in the wild invigorates, recharges and inspires, making your body work better, your brain work more clearly, and your imagination more creative. Alan and Hilary Wallace have clearly spent a lifetime in the wild, being inspired, recharged and invigorated. And now it is they who are doing the inspiration thing. My day with them was inspiring and what they have done is simply wonderful.

Alan and Hilary have made a very significant donation to Wildcare Inc to support the maintenance of wilderness walking tracks, walking huts, walker education and on-track information. Wildcare Inc has followed up with the creation of the Wildcare Wallace Wildtracks Fund so that you too can contribute to the cause.

The wild tracks in Tasmania take you to unbelievable places - up rugged mountains, across wide valleys and tumbling waterways, into dark rainforests and tall open woodlands, through plains of wildflowers and along coastal edges of cliffs and beaches. The Wildcare Wallace Wildtracks Fund will ensure that these wild tracks continue to lead people to amazing adventures and stunning places. Wildcare Inc profusely thanks Alan and Hilary for their generosity.
Wildcare Inc will be inviting the Parks and Wildlife Service to submit priority wilderness track projects for consideration for funding from the Wildcare Wallace Wildtracks Fund.

If you would like to make a tax deductible donation, large or small, and add to our capacity to assist with wild track maintenance and management, head to the website to donate

http://wildcaretas.org.au/donations/wil ... acks-fund/ - notes on the fund

http://wildcaretas.org.au/product/wildc ... acks-fund/ - here to donate

[ribuck]

I love seeing people donating to support things they care about.

Personally, if I found a group that was dedicated to leaving wild places unmaintained, and re-wilding those which have been maintained, I'd donate generously.

[tastrax]

It will certainly be interesting to see which projects get funded from this fund. General maintenance versus 'upgrading' can be a fine line in the eyes of many.

[Nuts]

Well done these guys! That's sounds like a fantastic way to make a contribution. (I'd imagine there's enough work needed on the remote tracks that are being used without upgrading marginal ones).

[Mountain Rocket]

Cool initiative. Also very interested to see where and how the money gets spent.

[tastrax]

I especially like the fact its not just for works but includes education as well. With so much concentration on 'Great walks' it would be good to get some MIB/No Trace on to some of the lesser tracks. There is also a new generation of walkers coming through who have never had any MIB in the field.

Maybe its time for some Poo Tube work in the Lake Rhona area!

[whynotwalk]

Wonderful generosity! A fund that will hopefully be added to and used widely for some years. And "amen" to Phil re. the education needs. Go for poo tubes at Rhona Brendan!

Cheers

Peter

[devoswitch]

Very Generous indeed!! What a great way to give back to what you love.
Lake Rhona definitely needs something done! However I walked the Freycinet circuit a few weekends ago and that's nearly on par/if not worse! I suppose it's going to be really hard to stop that when so many backpackers etc have such easy access!