I was a bit surprised I could not find a Lake Pedder thread. So here it is and to kick off a bit of Sunday news from the abc. Tasmania's unsolved mystery of a missing biplane and a passionate conservationist http://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-...-brenda-hean-max-price-disappearance/12660976
Just to clarify where we are talking about. Picture from Wild Magazine.https://wild.com.au/ And this article in particular. https://wild.com.au/news/restore-pedder/
Be a hell of a trick. But I wonder if there is a group who prefer it the way it is now? At the time I thought it a wonder of world vandalism.
The Fishing and associated Tourism lobby have been very vocal in the past about not changing the current status quo. And the Fishing lobby is pretty powerful in Tas. It's a pretty simple job to drain the Serpentine Impoundment, take it down a few metres a year over 10 years and chase the drain with re-veg and job is done. There is nothing hard about it. But to do so would represent a defeat to the "we must develop and chop down for jobs and energy and so on" folks. It would be a signal event that could lead to other things is the concern of the loggers for example. The crazy thing is to restore the lake is likely to be a massive and huge tourist draw card and a world event for 10 years and then there will be a unique lake to sell. And it's not like there are not enough other lakes and impoundments to go fishing on elsewhere in Tas.
Speaking of Lake Pedder, I have a spare copy of Max Angus's The World of Olegas Trunchanas. Postage cost to anyone who would treasure it.
