Warburton's Dick Leith takes out Mayor's Lifetime Achievement Award .

Upper Yarra & Warburton Golf Club Legend Dick Leith awarded the Yarra Ranges Council Mayor's Lifetime Achievement Award at today's Australia Day Awards Ceremony.
With Cindy McLeish MP MLA for Eildon.

Faces of Forestry

Australia's Forest Industry is a story of success, sustainability and innovation. ....
Not surprisingly, those who work in and care for the bush take pride in what they do.
By far, the best office!!
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Warburton Golf Club Open Day - Free Golf

Warburton Golf Club are having an open day on Sunday February 9th. On offer is -
*FREE 9 hole golf (Bookings required).
* FREE Cinics with club professional, Kevin Smith at 11am, 12pm and 1 pm.
* FREE Sausage Sizzle from 11 am.
* BUY your 12 month membership on the day and get February and March for FREE ( The club’s year is from April 1st to March 31st.
* CLUBROOMS OPEN
* COMMITTEE MEMBERS available to answer questions.
* INFLATABLE PRACTICE AREA available.
* BEST 18th HOLE ON THE MAINLAND (As voted by golf magazine Inside Golf).
If you have never been to Warburton Golf Course, this is your chance.
Bookings on 59662306. Golf is Great at Warburton.
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Climatic impacts of undersea volcanic eruptions 2019

This paper is well worth a read. ....
https://drive.google.com/open…
Thank you to a Geologist acquaintance for the Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2019 paper.
Climate has always changed throughout Earth’s geological history. The present study is another investigation of a submarine volcanic eruption causing regional ocean warming as a cause of climate change over and above anthropogenic carbon dioxide, in true scientific tradition.
(Anthropogenic definition is - of, relating to, or resulting from the influence of human beings on nature.).
The recent eruption of 5 cubic Kilometers of basalt magma onto the Indian Ocean sea floor at a temperature of around 1000 C will have significantly warmed the Indian Ocean and it would appear caused the positive Indian Ocean Dipole which has had a significant impact on recent East African cyclones and flooding and East Australian dry and associated fires.
It will be interesting to see how follow up research develops the apparently plausible hypothesis.
The Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2019.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/…/imper…/Imperial-Engineer-31.pdf

Warburton Mountain Bike Destination (WMBD) UPDATE

At the end of 2019 the Warburton Mountain Bike Destination (WMBD) Project achieved an important milestone with submissions being made to State and Federal environmental regulators.

These submissions will enable the regulators to assess the potential impacts on the environment and ensure appropriate measures are in place to protect it.

The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) have now accepted the Environmental Effects Act referral. As part of this process DELWP has published the referral on their EES Referrals web page.

Many months of work has been carried out in the hills surrounding Warburton with specialists conducting field work, studies and assessments to ensure the WMBD delivers not just a world class mountain bike experience, but also sets the bar for environmental and heritage stewardship.

These reports are now available on the Ride Yarra Ranges website. Also the referral and reports are on DELWP's Environment Effects Statement web page.

Mt Beenak Telstra Mobile/Data Tower Outage

FURTHER UPDATE. ....
Telstra website - Mobile data, Mobile voice Intermittent service within highlighted area - To be confirmed when service will be restored. Telstra this is just not good enough! Some areas with no service since 30th December 2019.
Mobile Phone/Data Coverage in the Little Yarra Valley and beyond.
Today I've asked Senior Yarra Ranges Council Officers and the office of Hon Tony Smith MP Federal Member for Casey to investigate this continued Outage and for the restoration of this vital communication service.
I view this as a very serious matter now that we’re in the fire danger period and especially the Gladysdale, Three Bridges, Gilderoy and Powelltown communities with no Community Alert Siren and limited ABC Emergency Radio coverage, now have no Mobile coverage.
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Hay for East Gippsland Farmers

If you can help out with Hay Donations, not money. Give Brett Robin, Robin Logging a call on 0429665088. East Gippy Farmers need our help.
"Hi All, we are looking for Hay donation's for East Gippsland farmers in Buchan, we have trucks and floats to pick up, we are carting it up for free to help bush fire affected farms, any help would be greatly appreciated" Brett Robin 0429665088.
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