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"some of these tracks the DVD boys have done are pretty remote and haardly travelled at all in which case if no does what they did for another year the track could be recovered."
The idea that a track will recover in a year if not travelled needs challenging. If you travel to Mungo National Park, on the western edge of NSW, you can actually see and walk against tracks that were made by oxen pulled carts more than 120 years ago. They haven't been washed away or "recovered", despite not being travelled on for about 100 years. If you travel on any remote cattle station, you will come across tracks that may have been travelled twice in 20 years and they r still there!! They become transit paths for vermin pests such as camels, cats, wild dogs and (perhaps) feral 4wdrivers. But more importantly they become active paths for flooding rivers and creeks. They become, in other words, a high grade erosion risk. Just imagine what happens in mountain country when an unnecessary track is made... any wonder the greenies have a field day and parks get locked up.
When u blaze a new track, is this responsible 4wdriving if, at the end of the trip, all that is gained is the satisfaction of a few blokes being blokey? You have to ask yourself whether the country we all love is being exploited and abused by a select few who make money from doing so. Show us the country, by all means, and what a 4WD can do, but please don't wreck our country while doing so!!
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