Thread: Cattle back in the VicHigh Country

Originally Posted by Ranga

Fair point, but I'd rather controlled burn-offs than cattle.

Out of curiosity, how did these burn-offs happen before settlement, and why don't they happen any more?

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I agree, The cattle back is a good thing!

Controlled burns, hahahaha, DSE and controlled burns, good luck with that

Originally Posted by Ranga

Fair point, but I'd rather controlled burn-offs than cattle.

Out of curiosity, how did these burn-offs happen before settlement, and why don't they happen any more?

Unfortunately, there seems to have been a policy by managers of our forests of the last 20? years or so to reduce or stop controlled burns.

Originally Posted by rovercare

Controlled burns, hahahaha, DSE and controlled burns, good luck with that

Well, more like uncontrolled burns.

Before people start erroneously suggesting that Aboriginal people in our alpine areas used fire-stick burning, I suggest they have a look at:
The moth hunters: Aboriginal prehistory of the Australian Alps, by Josephine Flood. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1980.

They may also like to have a look at: Early Holocene human occupation and environment of the southeast Australian Alps: New evidence from the Yarrangobilly Plateau, New South Wales by Ken Aplin, Fred Ford and Peter Hiscock. ANU E Press, 2010. (http://epress.anu.edu.au/terra_australis/ta32/pdf/ch11.pdf).

Cheers
KarlB

Originally Posted by KarlB

Before people start erroneously suggesting that Aboriginal people in our alpine areas used fire-stick burning, I suggest they have a look at:
The moth hunters: Aboriginal prehistory of the Australian Alps, by Josephine Flood. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1980.

They may also like to have a look at: Early Holocene human occupation and environment of the southeast Australian Alps: New evidence from the Yarrangobilly Plateau, New South Wales by Ken Aplin, Fred Ford and Peter Hiscock. ANU E Press, 2010. (http://epress.anu.edu.au/terra_australis/ta32/pdf/ch11.pdf).

Cheers
KarlB

Too slow, I already have.

Some other useful references people may like to look at relating to this thread include:

Williams, R. J. (1991) Ecological Principles for Determining Stock Allocations on the Bogong High Plains, evidence to the independent panel, North East Region, Department of Conservation and Environment, Victoria.

Department of Sustainability and Environment (2005) Report of the Investigation into the Future of Cattle Grazing in the Alpine National Park, For the Alpine Grazing Taskforce, Department of Sustainability and Environment, East Melbourne.

But then again, they are government reports. Don’t believe them. What would they know?

Cheers
KarlB

Nothing in all the world is more dangerouse than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity (Martin Luther King Jr, 1963)