Hasbeen
so let me get this straight, because you are old/ infirm and no longer able to run your farm properly (and I sympathise with that) the environment and river health, not to mention the water quality for people using the river downstream, must suffer.
Surely you are not serious?

Paul nicholls

The stupidity of you people knows no bounds.

No one suffers if my stock use the river, or if they don't. Obviously, none of you have any experience of a river. In fact, none of the damn academics, who try to force their opinions on country people, have any either.

If you look to the Murray mouth you see lots of sand. You see it again in Fraser, & Morton & Stradbroke islands. Thats because rivers erode their banks, & the sand washes down stream.

They were doing it before any cloven hoof animals came to Oz. They even did it before man came to Oz, [naughty things].

Its not an effect of stock that causes most damage to river banks, it's bl@@dy TREES. Yes trees.

Every flood, & they occured before man came to Oz too, a number of trees are undercut by the water. Their existence causes swirls, & back eddies in the flow, that rip the bank out. Each flood takes some of these trees, & with them massive amounts of river bank.

I know because I've studdied the river, not a computer. I've also replaced the fences, that went with the trees.

If you want to stop bank erosion, my neighbour has the answer. Bulldoze the trees, & batter the bank to about 25 degrees. Then plant it to long growing grass. The water runs over this smoothly, with no erosion. In fact, he gains some soil from the deposition of silt, from this smooth [& therefore slower], flow.

Being a fool, I like the trees on my bank, even though I know they are bad for erosion.

It would be great if you city twits tried to learn a bit, before shooting off with this green garbage. If you want to force us to have wild life corridors along our river banks, at least have the guts to say so, rather than hide behind bull sh!t science. Gutless twits don't impress me too much.

Incidently, I've planted more trees, than you've had hot dinners, but in suitable places.

Hasbeen

Gee , you are an angry little man aren't you.

For your info, I too am a country boy, and an irrigator with a river frontage. Your views do a disservice to the vast majority of landcare farmers and those that care for the environment. Your ideas relating to trees and erosion are simply bizzare. Talk to some landcare farmers mate and get some proper info before you go making rash judgements about contributors to this forum

Now have lie down and count to 10.

Paul N