Thread: Mega fire bears down on Sydney and the Hunter

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

The State Government has a hazard reduction budget. It claims to have done more than the budget. The problem is, the budget is is inadequate to do the job that Aboriginal people once did as part of their culture. Not surprising, really.

The Aboriginal people effectively did it as a commercial operation - it was done to enhance hunting success, which is the equivalent of commercial activity.

Originally Posted by BradC

Which is good as if it did it'd get burned in the hazard reduction.

Tell me about it.


Problem is the trees keep getting burnt down. Maybe they could find a few quid from the Emergency Services Levy & if they did, the Emergency Services may not need all that cash.

The govt can't have it both ways.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

The Aboriginal people effectively did it as a commercial operation - it was done to enhance hunting success, which is the equivalent of commercial activity.

And caused what is probably the greatest ecological disaster in the history of the continent - prior to the arrival of aboriginals the flora (and some would say fauna) was varied and burning was a factor in changing the flora - by burning off, those plants that were not fire resistant got wiped out leaving those plants that needed fire (a generallisation foir sure but as some survived) so the result was not natural selection but people selection even if they did not mean too.

So now the land has to be burned off.

garry

Originally Posted by 101RRS

And caused what is probably the greatest ecological disaster in the history of the continent - prior to the arrival of aboriginals the flora (and some would say fauna) was varied and burning was a factor in changing the flora - by burning off, those plants that were not fire resistant got wiped out leaving those plants that needed fire (a generallisation foir sure but as some survived) so the result was not natural selection but people selection even if they did not mean too.

So now the land has to be burned off.

garry

have to weigh up of the risk of ecological disaster vs environment disaster.

Don't remind me 101!

Bloke next door took a brush cutter to the undergrowth two summers ago & demolished a lovely stand of old man Hakea that had been in existence for 35 years to my knowledge but obviously longer than that. Tried to explain to him about them needing a low fire to reseed. Did not have a bloody clue!

It wouldn't have been so bad but he took them off at ground level & I haven't seen any claimed (his) regrowth yet & I think they might have had the snake.

I'm buggered if I know why people want to live in this environment if all they seem to care about is bringing their moggies & let them out "all night to have a feed", & not look after their surroundings & then moan when they think the bird life is disappearing.

My sister died on Sunday, and since then we have been talking about her life. My brother remembers that when they moved to the bush she decided they would have no cats "so we can have birds". After being here for about a year, there was a rat plague. They tried everything they could think of to control them, without success, until one day a large cat appeared and moved in. Within two weeks there was not a rat to be found. Her comment - "we still have birds, just faster ones".

I'm sorry to hear that John I trust it was a peaceful passing.