Community opposition to controversial logging near Toolangi continued this morning.
With knitting needles, chairs and chocolate, a knitting circle settled into a productive knit-in and a yarn, stopping logging for two and a half hours.
Through the rising morning mist, a skein of six grandmothers and two grandfathers briskly walked up Monda Track to the notorious logging coupe of Leo’s Foot, on Mount Saint Leonard in the Yarra Valley.
“Between us we have 28 grandchildren. We are all concerned they will never see our magnificent Mountain Ash forest,” says Kerryn Blackshaw, local Toolangi grandmother.
“Logging is costing Toolangi its tall trees. We must stop this destructive clearfelling in our local environment.”
When police arrived, the Community Yarn of Knitting Grands left peacefully, without dropping a stitch.
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