Thread: Climate Change and our Land of Fire, Flood and Drought.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

This bloke is an expert in hazard reduction and has some interesting things to say, I think.

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That guy is a bushfire protection scientist apparently.
What a total load of garbage.

Originally Posted by Johndoe

That guy is a bushfire protection scientist apparently.
What a total load of garbage.

Could you be a bit more specific about what you see as the problem?

That gentleman is a Planner - based on a risk assessment he developed a plan.

Plenty of extremely capable planners out there

Yes, but he specifically studied the Black Saturday and other fires, so he has real world experience.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Yes, but he specifically studied the Black Saturday and other fires, so he has real world experience.

Fires have been around a while.
Seems like we are going around in circles.
Spend a few million on a few inquiries, employ a few more people / scientists and lets talk about fires.

Meanwhile i drive fire tracks around my area and there is trees over tracks and just overgrown in general.

I would HATE to be a volunteer around here driving a fire truck down some of these tracks during a fire! Deathtrap.

Yes, he advocated indigenous style slow burns of low vegetation to create a park-like setting and reduce the intensity of blazes, as practiced successfully for 60,000 years by the Aborigines.
I noted he recommended reading the excellent 'Dark Emu' by Bruce Pascoe for its description of Aboriginal fire stick farming methods.

Originally Posted by Johndoe

Fires have been around a while.
Seems like we are going around in circles.
Spend a few million on a few inquiries, employ a few more people / scientists and lets talk about fires.

Meanwhile i drive fire tracks around my area and there is trees over tracks and just overgrown in general.

I would HATE to be a volunteer around here driving a fire truck down some of these tracks during a fire! Deathtrap.

Didn't someone here describe recently how a particular park in NSW, Gospers Mountain, had been made inaccessible by the ripping up of tracks, mounds of soil being placed strategically to reduce access, Plantings been made on those ripped tracks & just generally ****ing up the area so that fire control was near impossible & contributed to the large fires there at present?

Who thinks this **** up, some distant shiny arse?


Mick,


I believe we will see Cool Burns return to the table, if not, this stuff is going to be repeated every few years at great expense to the States & the residents. I simply cannot see how not doing this will reduce Fire Risk.

Some (probably most privately owned) native forest here has not seen a fire of any size for many years when CFS Training Nights & reams of paper Reports were knocked on the head some years ago here. Certainly not during my residency here in 30 years.

I suspect it also came under "The too Hard Basket"/ Can't be arsed" headings in many cases.

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