'Environmentalists have themselves to thank for much of Australia's bush fire problem.'

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One of my former employers lived at Picnic Point, Sydney, which is a waterfront suburb completely surrounded by dry forest. A local resident was a very rich man with his own helicopter pad on the roof of his enormous house, and a helicopter, and a bulldozer. The man was a "working class millionaire", an ordinary working man who had made good in the trucking industry and in clever real estate purchases. He owned hundreds of acres of dry bushland around his house which he intended to sell as a housing estate in future.

He was well known and liked in the area for volunteering to help new residents clear their land with his bulldozer. He loved his bulldozer. He cleared his own land of undergrowth using his machine to prevent bushfires, which always seemed to originate in the northwest near the road cutting through the Holsworthy Army base. He left all of the trees, just removing the worst of the most flammable undergrowth and collecting the accumulated fallen timber fuel which was mulched. Sooner or later, it was all going to be a housing estate anyway.

After clearing his land, he was reported to the council by a Picnic Point resident, a woman who was outraged at what he did, and the man was prosecuted and very heavily fined.

When the expected bushfire eventually came, it came from the very direction that the man had predicted. All of the women and children in Picnic Point were evacuated including the woman who had dobbed the rich man in and got him into trouble, while the men stayed behind to defend their homes. All of the men vowed to fight to defend every other persons house from the fire, except for the woman who had endangered them all with her environmental stupidity. Her house could burn to the ground for all they cared, and they would just stand around and watch.

The fire was stopped at the firebreak the rich man had created on his own land.

Another true story.

One of the worst places anybody can build a home in bushland is on top of a ridge. Bushfires will burn much faster and hotter going uphill than they do downhill. Unfortunately, the tops of ridges where roads can be easily built is where many people build homes.

One such resident who's home fronted a national park and dry forest, got the idea that building a brick fence below his house fronting the forest would cause the heat from any bushfire climbing the ridge to be redirected upwards and over his house. After he did this, he was told by his local council that he was violation some obscure ordinance forbidding the building of structures fronting national parks.

The resident fought the council in court for a decade which cost him a bucket load of money, with the council eventually winning. The resident was told to demolish his brick wall. Before he could do that, the expected bushfire came and every house in his street was destroyed, except his own.

Fire brigade authorities were intrigued over how effective his wall had been at stopping the fire and protecting his home, and recommended to the state government that such walls should be mandatory in ridgeline developments.

One has to keep in mind that the AGW deniers do not know about a number of factors, including:

1. They do not know that the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas will create CO2.

2. They do not know that CO2 when trapped in the atmosphere will produce what scientists call the greenhouse effect.

3. They do not know what the greenhouse effect is.

4. They do not know that the greenhouse effect will cause heat to be trapped and stored in the atmosphere.

5. They do not know that the greenhouse effect exists.

Any other points they do not know about?

The EPA was founded & is made up of so-called environmentalists & they are the architects of all the the legislations that enabled the massive fuel load to accumulate. Now they're trying to tell us it's not their fault !
If I had my way, environmental issues should be dealt with by local expertise not by city based, city mentality pseudo Academic "experts".
As soon as these people are kept at bay, everything will start to improve !

Alan B,

"Intensive cell grazing doesn't allow fuel to build up, but rather returns it to the fire-hardened ground broken open by sharp cloven hooves, as organic manure."

Just a small point, cloven hooves compact the soil, that was why mobs of sheep were used to compact aircraft runways in WWII and hence the 'sheep's foot roller' that is used today.
http://www.google.com/search?q=sheepsfoot+roller&rlz=1C1CAFB_enAU718AU718&oq=sheeps+foot+roller&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l7.19033j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Pigs do an excellent job of breaking up the soil but they do it with their tusks and snouts and mobs of wild pigs already cost the country many millions of dollars likewise goats, many of our smaller wallabies face extinction because of wild goats taking over their habitat, they kick (butt) them out of sheltered camping caves and overhangs and the wallabies die from exposure in winter

Many of your points are good but this one is not.