Re: 'Aboriginal fire management – part of the solution to destructive bushfires' Archived Message
Posted by Ian M on January 3, 2020, 11:14 am, in reply to "Re: 'Aboriginal fire management – part of the solution to destructive bushfires'"
Sorry Derek, only just saw this... Thanks for filling in the blanks re: Flannery (I +still+ haven't got round to reading the book...) - I did wonder if the author was making a broad brush generalisation there, before going on to complain about others making broad brush generalisations! Good to hear the specifics of your situation growing up. Seems like there's a point of no return beyond which traditional management can't bring an ecosystem back to a benign state. I guess UK woodlands would be facing much the same problem with build-up of brash and standing dead wood causing wildfires if we had similar hot, dry conditions to Oz. (Actually, I heard that was likely a problem which will afflict overstood conifer forestry plantations which are much more combustible than mixed broadleaf.) Difficult to know what to do with all that built-up material, as you say. Obviously it would be preferable to find a local use, but that's going to be unlikely among the wealthy communities that generally settle around picturesque woodland! Biomass? Charcoal? Would need to be viable for someone to take on... As much as I dislike some aspects of conservation grazing, that's been an old solution for arid regions, eg: in Palestine: https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2017-12-01/forest-fires-israel-goats-zionism/ cheers, I
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