Cross-country courses created
From the Winter 2006 edition of Bush Telegraph Magazine.
Deniliquin school students will be running through the forest this year trying out one of three new cross-country courses in Deniliquin State Forest.
In conjunction with local schools, Forests NSW has marked three cross-country courses giving primary and secondary students in the Riverina the option of running a two, three or four kilometre route along the Edward River and through the forest.
Forest NSW fieldworkers constructed information signs at the start and finish of each course. Route-markers in the form of coloured arrows guide students through the forest; to stay on track, runners keep the appropriate colour on their right hand side.
Local athletics coordinator, Judy Lees, provided unlimited advice regarding the length and routes of the courses. A number of local cross-country carnivals and the Riverina district carnival have already taken place in the forest with all involved keen to make greater use of the tracks in the future.
Not only will the young people of Deniliquin and surrounds benefit from these new courses but so will visitors to Deniliquin State Forest.
Operations Forester, Deniliquin
