Friday, Jun 07, 2013 at 18:51
terra you are a FOOL.
dont you realise that periodic burns that are not as intense as bushfires ?
they give the trees the chance to regenerate because of the lower intensity burn rates in winter, than compared to a bush fire in summer !!
the native animals have no problems surviving a back burn operation in the normal season, because its a SLOW AND LOW TEMPERATURE BURN.
you have a bush fire in summer, and the intense heat, high winds will spread quickly and burn super hot because the bush has been locked up !!
fuel loads havnt been reduced, trees are dense compared to pre
european settlement, and therefore fierce fires that spread fast that kill both animals and humans.
dont you know that aborigines used fire as a land management tool for THOUSANDS OF YEARS.. and it worked every time.
its your attitude of locking it up, that is where we are at.
you realy have no idea, yet you say youve fought bush fires, and been on the ground..
ooh you vote for the greens too i bet.
youd rather see their pest implementation of catch, sterilise and release of feral cats..
its a friggin joke, the time, money and effort into this soo called program currently running in
sydney is a joke.
they say their all for saving native animals, yet dont remove the caught feral cats that do the most damage, theyd rather let them go and wait 10years for them to sterilise out, PFFT.
like whos going to keep trapping the feral cats ?
their is 18million of them in this country, thats just cats alone.
the bush needs to be burnt, every 3 to 5 years, sensitive high country areas need cattle grazing like they did for over a 100 years.
mountain cattlemen know about their land, its not just their livelyhood, but its their
home, and generations have been doing the same thing.
they keep the tracks open, fencing, and removing
pests..
at a saving to the tax payer, as
well as keeping the grass low to prevent bushfires.
living next to bushland is a
hazard, YES but proper management and routine burning reduces the risk imensly.
where it can be safely managed, and NOT RISK LIVES.
currently that is not happening, and the results are loss of human life. as
well as buildings, livestock and native animals.
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