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Government responsibility for bushfire tragedy : Comments

By Richard Mulgan, published 24/2/2009

We should not be asked to suppress all anger or to blunt our immediate demand for answers to the recent bushfire tragedy.

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This thread of consistently rational responses should be held up as a standard for future OLO posters.

PS some of us city folk actually spend a significant amount of time in the bush while rubbing shoulders with those who live in the bush. In addition, we may have grown up in the country even though we no longer live there.
Posted by Cowboy Joe, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 8:23:23 PM
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I did a lot of "back burning" years ago .
I was with people who used to graze the Forests , some of them were of Aboriginal decent. These people worked somewhat like a cooperative , each acquired Cattle and simply let them go , these cattle had to have water and had to have grass .
Water and grass were the only controls .
Grass was controlled by fire , unless the Forrest is burnt there will be no grass .
Knowledge of geography supplied the water it was a mountainous area .
Parcels of cattle were rounded up irregularly , several killed for shareholders consumption the rest sold on the hoof any breeders branded , males castrated .
Some where there must have been a manager ?
Wildfires did not happen for obvious reasons .
Once the native grasses established establishing a burn was much easier , establishing a burn in unburnt Forrest is sometimes impossible and has to be left later time spring which becomes dangerous .
It was acceptable to cut firewood , it isn't now .
What I have illustrated above could still be done ,
Places like Kinglake could have been saved by Goats .
Simply surround Kinglake with a fence road gates or cattle grid , clear fell fireside of fence just enough to stop evaporated canopy gas ignition , maybe replant with non eucalypti possibly English trees . Massive damage to trees in a Forrest is done by Burrawongs .
If burrawongs catch fire trees adjacent always destroyed .
Posted by ShazBaz001, Thursday, 26 February 2009 11:53:21 AM
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