Thread: Cattle Grazing in the High Country - your opinion

I would guess that the very next thing they'll try is to declassify Sambar and Fallow deer from protected game species to feral status and call in a widespread cull too, for no other reason than the Government loves to hate hunters and legitimately owned firearms.

Never voted for Bracks and never will. Now if only the Libs would get rid of Doyle...

Feds ride to rescue


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Michael.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>FROM ACF : "The decision to end the damaging cattle grazing in the Alpine National Park will clear the way for Victoria's first ever natural environment World Heritage nomination. It has been long recognized that the Victorian, New South Wales, and ACT Alpine regions are of World Heritage value but damaging grazing in the Victorian Alps has been an obstacle to their nomination.[/b][/quote]
http://www.acfonline.org.au/asp/pages/docu....asp?IdDoc=2388

I'm sure there will be a number of unusual decisions over the next couple of years while they try and get there nomination !!!

I wonder what will happen up at the Ski Fields as they are on National Parks on a Lease I believe !!!

Matt.

Talk about the biggest suck job, sorry I meant vote getting suck job by Bracks for the Greens vote. It was all stirred up by the VNPA "Victorian National Parks Assoc", what a bunch of hairy legged, tree huggers they are.

Check out their website: www.vnpa.org.au
What a load of crock, all they want is donations

Another site worth mentioning is www.mcav.com.au
Mountainmans Cattle Assoc of Vic

As an ag teacher and an ag scientist i am very much against this. Grazing in an area doesnt cause that much damage, **** fertilses the soil and the stock graze back native grasses meaning they dont become as much of a fire hazard. Not to mention that there is a lack of feed all over Aus and removing the right to graze the high country would be lock stopping drovers grazing the roadside. Matt

What I noticed was that the ban-grazing lobby talked about studies, science and proof. What the pro-grazing lobby talked about was killing a legend, history and tradition. I didn't hear any pro-grazing person doing anything other than appealing to a sense of romance. For me, logic wins over tradition. However, I'd really want to read all the reports to make my mind up.

Originally posted by Ace
As an ag teacher and an ag scientist i am very much against this. Grazing in an area doesnt cause that much damage, sh*t fertilses the soil and the stock graze back native grasses meaning they dont become as much of a fire hazard. Not to mention that there is a lack of feed all over Aus and removing the right to graze the high country would be lock stopping drovers grazing the roadside. Matt

Tim Flannery in his excellent book "Future Eaters" talks about the loss of megafauna in Australia like the Diprotodon about the time that the recently arrived and now aboriginal people made an impact through hunting and fire farming. He postulated that large ruminants like cattle should be encouraged. After all we don't manage fires very well.

And we have only been here 200 years.