b'to find someone cared enough to bring A SPECIAL APPEAL TO FWDV CLUB volunteers, please give time and help aswhat they needed. Many organisations MEMBERS you can and then have a break, refresh,have received gifts of food, water, Please be patient in your desire to be re-energise and come back and doclothing, toiletries and other essentials out on the tracks. Risk assessment and some more. Be guided by the peoplethat disappear when a fire moves risk management is a big job and will affected by the fires, they will know bestthrough your home. Distribution of these not be able to be done quickly. As you where your help is needed first andgifts has been carried out by members can imagine some of the burnt areas will where to go after that. Be a goodof our four-wheel drive clubs to those become available before others listener and dont be in too much of aaffected areas where people have because our land managers will have a hurry to listen. A lot of bushfire recoverystayed. There remain many more priority order in which they do their can be done through listening and youopportunities to participate in this work. work. If your favourite track is not open never know you might make a newFour Wheel Drive Victoria office can be when you expect it to be please do friend for life.contacted to find where your help is exercise consideration for PV and Finally, thank you to all who have helpedmost needed and put you in touch with DELWP as they work towards their this far. Theres plenty of help stillthe right person. If you can get some goal of clearing, checking and finally needed so lets work together in a wellclubmembers together, have your opening the tracks again. We have not co-ordinated way to get the best valueclub put an event together and contact heard yet whether we can help with any we can from our volunteer work for theFWDV. There will be a place where your of the track work. people who have had their lives mas-club can help. Having your club put an Please work through the FWDV Office to sively changed by an event they had noevent together means you are covered volunteer and enquire about tracks control over.for personal injury and public liability being open. All the best.as you are participating in a club To those club members who have been Colin Oatessanctioned event. volunteering in the immediate recovery Vice PresidentImpact on the work of our land work while the fires were still burning,managers is truly enormous. Before we thank you for giving your time andcan return to those tracks we love to energy, using your hands and feet anddrive on, a mountain of risk assessment tools to help the process of getting backand risk management work needs to be to normal. The work you have done willdone by Parks Victoria and DELWP. help people affected by the fires find aThere is no kilometre figure yet, but it way forward from the sudden changewill be many kilometres of tracks which has confronted them.needing to be checked and cleared There is going to be a need to maintainbefore they are safe for us to use. momentum in our recovery work. So2 MARCH2020 TRACKWATCH'