"Fix the roads Bob Carr" .

Common signs seen on roadsides throughout the "bush".
Seems his roads were subject to the same neglectful extinction event at that same time!

Dan.

The fossil record cannot lie! And tells us this land was once covered from coast to coast in forest. Forest that recharged rain-bearing clouds that then pushed the rain into what is now a dry arid inland. And that these fires were lit as an adjunct to hunting only and for no other reason by a stone age, primitive culture that had no other answer and now entrenched as culture among generations of brainwashed devotees, Who would argue that the fossil record is disingenuous and mendacious, so powerful is the hold of their brainwashed primitive culture stone-age belief?

Yes, fire reduces the fuel load, but the season where this can be done in complete safety short to the point where it's is always problematic to downright dangerous. Moreover, there are hazard reduction strategies that have no season are vastly more efficacious as fuel reductions strategies that can also generate a cashflow profit!

Further, the fossil record, carbon dating etc., of finger paintings, stone tools etc., tells us the indigenous population did not arrive en masse 65,000 years ago but as waves of migration and ultimately with much conflict and tribal wars. e.g., Mungo man.

Yes, there may have been 500 or so nations here all with different languages, culture and belief/ And a virtual land of babel, continually at war for survival, of the fittest.

Finally, the soil stores carbon for around 200 years ma and is gradually released back into the atmosphere, but substantially over much shorter time if fire is the preferred land management tool. and trees may store carbon but only until thy burn or rot!

We need hazard reduction strategies guided by the science and evidence not myth and legend, primitive belief or brown-nosing pollies paying servile homage to those beliefs as a vote-buying exercise?
Alan B.

Well AlanB

There are two standard ways of passing on rule. Politically or bureaucratically, or in combination.
Those are the way of the expert. And experts are guided by education, or they wouldn't be experts.
Now there I've listed three impediments to sound decision making.

Your answer?

Dan

AlanB So you agree that blackfellas changed fire regimes and vegetation. Obviously wilderness is bs. You haven't got a clue about fire management. Aborigines burnt forests in summer. They thrived in deserts and barren sandstone country where whitefellas couldn't survive. Anyone that's ever lived and worked in the bush knows that megafires happen when you lock up country. Blackfellas survived extreme climate change without boots or overalls, let alone fire engines and waterbombers. But you reckon you're so smart and they're so dumb!

If the buggars are so smart why is the Gap still not closing.
David

This writer, a forester of long standing. He gives us the wealth of experience he has (and we don't) and all you do is nit pick and distract yourselves into you own little worlds.

Read the article and absorb his observations and comment an those, not urbane trivia!

Well done sir. Your information is enlightening, to those who wish to read your article.