Maggy Todd, Rosebank
After reading the article by Aslan Shand (3 February), I drove up Rifle Range Rd to check out the situation for myself. What confronted me was an act of what I consider to be environmental vandalism perpetrated by a landowner who wishes to ‘move an existing driveway’!
Was it necessary to destroy so many important trees for a driveway, pray tell?
And yes, while some of the cleared trees are the introduced nuisance camphor laurels, as was pointed out in the article, they also’… ‘provide an important role as transition and provide shade for koalas’. Surely these beautiful animals have had enough of their important habitat removed?
Perhaps the owner of the land intends to replant appropriate vegetation with the koalas in mind? I think not.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
