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Tasmanians in the state's north-east are concerned the success of the region's mountain bike boom will be overshadowed by the State Government's controversial decision to open up forest around popular trails for logging.
The Government will overturn a peace deal set up by Labor and the Greens that protected about 350,000 hectares of forest around the state, claiming the land should not be held in reserve.
Tasmania is experiencing a tourism boom in the state's remote north-east, where in a few weeks a world series mountain biking event will be held in small town of Derby.
Locals like 14-year-old Miles Smith said the town had been transformed for the better by an influx of tourism.
"It's exceptional just to know I live in what once felt like a ghost town to me," Miles said.
"[Derby] is now is a booming town where people come from New Zealand, Canada, everywhere around the world just to ride our tracks."
The once-sleepy town has in recent months seen new businesses spring up.
Kate Gegg came to Derby from Queensland last year to go mountain biking and ended up staying to open a restaurant.
"We came down riding with a group of friends in December and just couldn't believe the lack of dinner options, and so many people in town who are after good food and a nice place to talk about the ride," Ms Gegg said.
"We just fell in love with this building and the town itself and came away with a contract on a house."
The chef she hired, Adrian Cooper, grew up in Derby, but it has been 17 years since he has lived in the town.
"It's good, there is actually something here for the youth," Mr Cooper said.
"I remember growing up there wasn't much to do apart from swimming in the river and fishing, and now there are bike trails, people are active, fit, running around."
About a third of the mountain bike tracks cross land that was set aside as reserves in 2012 as part of a peace deal designed to end the forestry dispute in Tasmania.
But the State Government has since torn up the peace deal and is trying to reopen the land for potential logging, a point of contention in the community.
Tasmania's upper house has yet to decide if it will approve the Government's plans to allow more forest around the state to be logged.
The Government promised widespread consultation in Derby if their laws are passed, and said forestry and tourism can coexist.
Many locals are convinced the trails will never be logged, but fear the publicity surrounding the issue could scare tourists away.
Mountain-biking Canadian tourists Uwe Homm and Anja Braum were less convinced.
"We bike in so many different places and I think this is definitely one of the most beautiful places I've biked so far," Mr Homm said.
"Here and there you pass these massive trees, which I guess the logging industry is after, but you can't help it, you have to stop and give it a hug," said Ms Braum.
"We come to see the nature and the ferns and the bushes, and if that's not there anymore I guess the bike tourism will kind of stop coming, which will affect the community hugely I can imagine."
Topics: tourism, travel-and-tourism, forestry, tas