Does it line the fallen timber up for burning, or do you still need a bull dozer for that plantagenet.

Actually the only land I have seen cleared, or recleared, apart from some burning to minimise woody weeds invasion around here is large housing estates.

One neighbour making very little from his property, giving him nothing to help set his kids up, converted 1000 acres to an acreage estate. He died while it was happening, but his kids are now OK, & there is a couple of thousand acres for the very nice, but silly & misguided daughter, to keep her horses, & try to make a living.

The other area is Yarrabilba. 3000 acres from memory, previously cleared for a pine plantation in the 60s, now set to house 50,000 people. Anyone know of a nice isolated spot for us refugees from city population growth to move to. Lets face it, sea level rise has nothing on migration forced population expansion.

Even if half of this is true, it's very worrying

Very worrying Waverley. That local acreage estate was on the best maintained grazing land. It had many scattered trees, & was rather park like. The local council was making it very difficult for the new owners of the acre blocks to remove any of these trees to enable sensible siting of a house. They had passed some tree conservation thing to buy Greenies votes.

To overcome this the developer, who did have clearing rights, went in & pushed the lot in the second half of the estate. The early part with most of the gum trees still standing is about as attractive as an acreage estate can be. The latter is a sea of uninterrupted grey roofs & off white houses. Grey must be the new in colour.

It is going to take a long time for plantings by the new residents to get tall enough to turn this grey sea into something attractive.

Perfect example of green pressure leading to the most undesirable results.

Note that the author is a medical doctor who thinks she understands environmental issues but here has shown she knows so little, she does not realise how little she knows. Basically just regurgitated crap peddled by urban radical greenies.

Re doctors who should be respected for their medical knowledge misusing their credibility: In Victoria there is or was an organisation calling itself "Doctors for Forests" trying to spread "greenwash". I remember maybe 12 years ago, a retired forester who I have met once but cannot presently recall his name, went along to some meeting or function they were running wearing a white coat and a stethoscope. Claimed he was from "Foresters for Medicine" Think his efforts included carrying a sign to this effect.

"Does it line the fallen timber up for burning, or do you still need a bull dozer for that plantagenet."
No it's self-mulching , spreads a lovely coat of green leaves over the golden baked organic dustbowl. Suburban cattle a must be a trendy thing , but why plant trees when it's beef profits they want? They should be able to convert wheat-harvesters into wood chip collectors , bombing the re-growth every decade or so.

Dear Alan
Don't mean to argue with you but you propose wisteria in mulga country and as a food crop in Zimbabwe?

"Wisteria seeds are produced in pods similar to those of Laburnum, and, like the seeds of that genus, are poisonous. All parts of the plant contain a saponin called wisterin, which is toxic if ingested, and may cause dizziness, confusion, speech problems, nausea, vomiting, stomach pains, diarrhea and collapse. . Wisteria seeds have caused poisoning in children and pets of many countries, producing mild to severe gastroenteritis and other effects."

Wisteria
$15.50
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Softy old Alan.