Why didn't you start this with "wouldn't it be nice if" This writer lives in a world of faity tales with happy endings.

Like so many greenies and the PC brigade, they refuce to accept the truth because accepting the truth has so many un-palatable consequences.

Wake up and smell the roses, love.

Now let me get this straight. After 40,000 years of firestick farming and the evolution of species and populations to match, Yule would like us to believe that a partial resumption of that fire regime after a single interupted century will 'dry us out' and reduce fertility?

Lets be clear, the absence of cold fire and the increase in hot fires has produced a substantial increase in the density of forested vegetation which has substantially degraded the volume and duration of river flows.

So Lance, what can you tell me about Aboriginal "fire regimes"? What do you know about it?