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Ecologists effectively advocating destruction of Australian forests : Comments

By Mark Poynter, published 23/1/2025

Denial, ignorance and ideology lie behind dangerous thinking on fire management.

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Apart from healthy forests there are other factors to consider. These include biodiversity (cute critters), net CO2 balance, respiratory distress, local employment and damage from escaped fires. Since Trump believes in forest thinning apparently future federal funding of fire control authorities will require that practice.

It seems in practice we are heading towards tracking of known arsonists and aerial water bombing, not so much prescribed burns. Have all the prescribed burns you want just not near me.
Posted by Taswegian, Thursday, 23 January 2025 8:48:24 AM
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It may look like a lie but it is in actual fact just plain stupidity !
Posted by Indyvidual, Thursday, 23 January 2025 9:02:40 AM
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Huge swaths of otherwise useless land, are handed over to Aboriginal Land claims.
Let them deal with it, (joke).

http://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda

Here. Is the enemy.

One needs to read this crap with a mind of pure scepticism, along with help from the ghost of George Orwell .
Posted by diver dan, Thursday, 23 January 2025 9:39:13 AM
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Another good article, Mark, but in south west WA at least most Aboriginal burning was done in summer, not in autumn or spring. There are many records from the early explorers and settlers of summer being the preferred time. Interestingly, there is also evidence to show that summer burning was carried out under moderate wind conditions as this would allow the flames to be blown along the ground and not so much up trees to start crown fires.
Posted by BernieMasters, Thursday, 23 January 2025 11:01:14 AM
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The loss of small animal species is too often trivialised by those not fully blessed with the ability to care. All life is a working link in the chain of the Planet, convenient or inconvenient.
Humans are the pinnacle of life & also the pit.
We need to re-introduce education & again teach how to think like it was before the Woke (stupid) ! There appears to be a snow-balling of conservative sense & we can only hope people are of smart enough mentality to not let it get derailed again by the parasites. Think symbiosis !
Posted by Indyvidual, Friday, 24 January 2025 6:42:41 AM
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Thanks Bernie
I presume that indigenous burning was undertaken when conditions were cool or mild, which could certainly occur in summer in places that have mild summers, or even in other areas where the summer was not as hot/dry as typically experienced. They worked according to the prevailing conditions, not to seasons defined by dates on a calendar.

It is really the modern-day fire management agencies that are definitely limited to burning in autumn and spring (in southern Australia) as summer is a declared fire season even if it turns out to be wetter than normal. Also because, unlike indigenous burning, todays burning must take account of the safety of far greater human populations, as well as private property and community infrastructure such as power lines, water supplies, communication towers and the like.

The difficulties of burning are far greater nowadays, but fundamentally both indigenous cultural burning and fuel reduction burning are based on the same premise of taking advantages of weather and fuel conditions that support mild or cool fires that don't kill trees.
Posted by MW Poynter, Friday, 24 January 2025 2:51:29 PM
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