{"id":1606,"date":"2025-08-12T15:28:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/wordpress\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T23:18:24","slug":"recreational-threats-to-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/recreational-threats-to-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Recreational threats to environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four Wheel Drive vehicles can drive forest tracks in the Wombat State Forest; however, some vehicles illegally access tracks that are seasonally closed to preserve the tracks during wet weather from June to the end of October.<\/h4>\n
\"Illegal

Illegal 4WD activity in the headwaters of the Lerderderg River<\/p><\/div>\n

In many situations even the legal use of tracks creates massive erosion due to drivers using the forest as an adventure playground.<\/h4>\n
\"Destructive

Destructive 4WD activity on XL Track<\/p><\/div>\n

Illegal Trailbike activity causes silting and destruction to waterways.<\/h4>\n
\"Illegal

Illegal trailbike activity in the headwaters of Jackson\u2019s Creek<\/p><\/div>\n

Car Rallies are totally inappropriate in the Wombat State Forest. Usually occurring in the evening, cars reach high speeds and can cause the death of wombats and other wildlife.<\/h4>\n

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Four Wheel Drive vehicles can drive forest tracks in the Wombat State Forest; however, some vehicles illegally access tracks that are seasonally closed to preserve the tracks during wet weather from June to the end of October. In many situations even the legal use of tracks creates massive erosion due to drivers using the forest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issues-campaigns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3696,"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/3696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}