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Australia needs to reassess the role and management of its national parks : Comments

By Brendan O'Reilly, published 24/1/2020

The 'State of the Parks 2004' report, said that, in more than 90 per cent of NSW national parks, attempts to manage weeds and pest animals were non-existent, non-effective, or producing only a slow change.

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Yep, introduced and put there by stupid humans
Posted by ateday, Friday, 24 January 2020 2:26:00 PM
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Looks to me the likely Royal Commission into recent fires should concentrate on why recommendations from previous ones have so often not been carried out. Are several aspects of these. eg Inappropriate regulations and action by bureaucrats that have been counter productive and also sometimes extremely costly to governments and/or individuals and communities. Many examples could be considered for working out how this problem may be minimised. eg Re two that occurred not long before Black Saturday.

A community group, whose leaders remained anonymous put 35 Angus steers on Barmah Island, north of the town of Barmah, Vic in late spring to reduce the serious fire hazard from grass growth along the river after could not get any departmental action to reduce it. In the situation, burning off and slashing were totally impracticable. However the bureaucrats huffed and puffed and tried unsuccessfully to find who to try and prosecute. After about 2 months of this fuel reduction grazing, they organised - at obvious large public expense, a team from elsewhere which tried for a day to find and muster these cattle in a 3,000 acre river red gum forest. However locals tipped off in advance covertly got most out beforehand except a few they did not find. One of undoubtedly large numbers of examples of public money used to obstruct rather than help measures to help reduce damage from possible fires.

Someone in the process of building a house in Reedy Creek area SE of Broadford, Vic, cleared trees from around it thinking was approved on permit. However, seems after discovering area was larger than authorised, a bullying council officer went in hard. Managed to get unfortunate property owner convicted and I think the order of a $40,000 fine. Then obviously partly due to supposedly illegal clearing, this was the only house in the area that survived Black Saturday. Heard afterwards that the responsible (or irresponsible) official would be soon pushed out of his job by community pressure

Seems there are lots of other examples of preposterous prosecutions and fines, which would deter many others from attempting desirable fuel reduction.
Posted by mox, Friday, 24 January 2020 3:40:49 PM
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A bit more courage is needed. Greens are invariably idle non-working creeps with boundless time and arrogance bordering on mental illness. They will always attack, infiltrate and get into the position of authority to punish people.
We need to always refer to them as filthy, anti-people, trouble-makers. We need to take them to task and kick our current useless representatives who back up the greens bullying. Labour is not worth talking about as they are so useless but the LNP are now following the labour lead rather than bashing the hated greens every chance they get. The field to stick it to the greens is very large and needs to be used. Such as six "Activists" who stopped a prescribed burn in a forest last winter which was destroyed by the recent bush fires. Expose these people and stop them before they destroy so much of our country.
Posted by JBowyer, Friday, 24 January 2020 7:28:25 PM
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Yep, introduced and put there by stupid humans
ateday,
well, I believe it's called evolution ever since Gondwana broke up !
Posted by individual, Friday, 24 January 2020 8:37:29 PM
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If any area is infested with introduced feral weeds, imported here as pot plants and rabbit fodder so the first English migrants could feel more at home, can be removed mostly, by the introduction of herds of goats who have legendary appetites for tin cans, music boxes and washing on the line. Plus things like scotch thistle, stinging nettle and milkweed. Camels are about the only animal that'll graze on prickly acacia.

Humans have always had a predilection for acts of stupidity or bastardy. Even today we see lots of it in the green movement and callous population control advocation by the usual range of highly autocratic, moribund control freaks who believe they and they alone are the suppositories of all wisdom.

And their unsolicited argumentative, broken record advice is always intended for everyone else, never ever themselves or theirs!

Indigenous populations have for millennia selectively logged their forests without harm to flora or fauna, just the opposite. Moreover, trees store carbon whether vertical or horizontal.

Selectively logged forest create twice as many jobs as clear-felled forests and use up half the trees, create log roads that serve as fire breaks and managed forests have more self-interested eyes monitoring the forest for fire!

Willow trees have proven invaluable for the prevention of erosion and intensive short term grazing by hoofed animals alligator the ground, breaking it up so the rain soaks in as opposed to running off of land baked hard by hundreds of seasons of repeated burning, creating flash floods and huge erosion in the process!

Rapid growing willow soaks up carbon faster than most fire-tolerant native species! And the timber is useful for many applications! Goats will happily chomp on it for most of the day.
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Saturday, 25 January 2020 9:02:30 AM
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Quiz:- Who would you think would have the most practical knowledge
of land management ?

1. A bureaucrat sitting in a capital city office.
2. A third generation farmer living next to a large unused block.

The farmers need to get together and notify the authorities that the
control of the land has changed and the farmers and other land
stakeholders are taking over.
Their justification is survival.
Rights to survival over rule all other rights.
They could start a Fund Me and I am sure the insurance companies
would top it up.
Posted by Bazz, Saturday, 25 January 2020 9:48:48 AM
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