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    LETTERS

    Mar 28, 2022 4 minutes

    [Letter of the Issue]

    JUST DOING WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE

    Hi James,

    Excellent editorial in Wild #182 about Parks Victoria’s grasping need to make money from national parks and their thin-skinned approach to criticism on social media. As a volunteer worker in parks and other publicly owned land over many years, I’ve come to the conclusion that PV—far from wishing more volunteers to help their admittedly hard-pressed and under funded staff—actually hate and fear volunteers, and would rather be given cash donations to employ commercial operators to do what needs to be done.

    In the past 3-4 years, we volunteers have been

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