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Sport Climbing to be Prohibited in Tasmanian WHA 21-Jan-2015 At 2:25:40 PM BBSR

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Thanks for the update James.

I'm not familiar with the area, so can only comment in general terms.

I think that to have sport climbs prohibited under the plan may not be the ideal in terms of meeting the stated goals of the management plan. In the value of 'Presentation' at the beginning of the document, it speaks of a need to consider current and future needs, and I think that we could better meet these needs by defining a process under which future new bolting might be evaluated. Not sure exactly what this would look like, but perhaps not entirely different from the RAA (Reserve Activity Assessment). In many ways I think this speaks to the theme of some of the other statements, which show that there is an understanding that bolts can be in the best interests of the goals in some areas, but not others.