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Victoria’s forests: to burn or not to burn? : Comments
By Mark Poynter, published 11/12/2013The Victorian Government’s mixed messages about prescribed burning raise questions about the influence of conservation ideology within the state’s bureaucracy.
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Intensive cell grazing prevents valuable nutrient being lost skyward and forever, in millions of annual tons.
Small hooves, and intensive grazing also breaks open topsoil, allowing much more of the rains to soak in, which in turn, produces a more moist greener herbage, that doesn't burn as easy.
The addition of dung beetles, ensures that any organic matter is added where it does the most good, rather than attracting and breading millions of flies.
If there is no timely hazard reduction, then even more disastrous forest fires, will be the order of the day!
Have those in charge down there learned nothing?
The problem with burning as a strategy, you need to know ahead of time, that the wind won't get up and turn a manageable reduction burn into a raging unstoppable bush fire.
And those super calm days seem to be getting less and less or a thing of the past?
Whereas, you can cell graze at any time, all you need is water and portable electric fences, and even fewer personal, than hazard reduction, by so called traditional means!
Burn or graze!
It's not a hard choice!
One is always an option, the other isn't.
The only option not on the table, is simply doing nothing!
Rhrosty.