I can tell u one thing, as a state firefighter our bush conditions are changing dramaticaly when i strarted we would have maybe 2 to 3 weeks of extreme conditions with maybe 200 to 300 fires across the state these days our fire season goes for maybe 9 months and we get around 800 to 1000 fires per year on public land and they are some savage fires
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Tiger74 said:
This Liverpoolsen sounds like a smart fellow looking after his own fellow Greenlanders first instead of ruining their future by trying to 'save the world' and overpopulating a small country.
Must be an Everton fan though if he is following a third-rate football team , as we both know that the two best team in Liverpool are Liverpool and Liverpool Reserves. ;D
Liverpool said:This Liverpoolsen sounds like a smart fellow looking after his own fellow Greenlanders first instead of ruining their future by trying to 'save the world' and overpopulating a small country.
Must be an Everton fan though if he is following a third-rate football team , as we both know that the two best team in Liverpool are Liverpool and Liverpool Reserves. ;D
I have an update on Liverpoolsen.
Unfortunately the guy is now serving time at His Magesty's Pleasure.
It turns out the DTO (Danish Taxation Office) has disallowed his claim for AUD 73,729 equivalent in tax deductions. Reason being they were not to an authorised charity. Liverpoolsen tried to argue that charity should be determined by the individual, and not some socialist red flag waving pencil pusher back in Copenhagen. The case was going well until the true recipient of the funds was determined, that being Liverpoolsen himself. Liverpoolsen tried to argue that charity begins at home, so that means donating to himself, but the judge was not impressed.
Before being taken away, Liverpoolsen was heard to be saying that at least his tax dollars would now be subsidizing a cushy and soft lifestyle for him behind bars, and thanks for the lefties out there his time behind bars should be more comfortable than spending time down at the Goooduvnga Caravan Park for the Annual Deer Eating Festival.
True micheal there is a lack of forest maintenance as our beloved state govt dosent see it as a good idea to employee more people people in my line off work they seem to think it enough to have people writting polocies rather than doing the ground work. in regards to alpine grazing i beleive it has minimal impact there are enough deer up in them there hills to do the job for the cattle.
The drought is having an enourmous impact with areas of rainforest which 5 years ago would barely burn now tinder dry, these areas traditionaly helped in suppresion along with wet gully systems but now fire just goes straight through them one good point on the whole thing is that over the last couple of years fires have reduced fuel loads in about a sixth of the state the bad is areas like the dandenongs and other urban fringes are primed and ready to go
Looks like another busy year
The drought is having an enourmous impact with areas of rainforest which 5 years ago would barely burn now tinder dry, these areas traditionaly helped in suppresion along with wet gully systems but now fire just goes straight through them one good point on the whole thing is that over the last couple of years fires have reduced fuel loads in about a sixth of the state the bad is areas like the dandenongs and other urban fringes are primed and ready to go
Looks like another busy year
Disco08 said:
Unfortunately there is a finite area that is Canberra; as NSW will not let the boundries expand.
Since the boundaries are set where do you expect them to build houses?
The Government used the pine forrest as revenue; residental housing encroached as the population expansion was unforeseen.
As for forrest the whole Capital is surrounded by trees hence the moniker "Bush Capital".
Do you want the local Government to remove all trees in Canberra and the Brindabella's?
I live in Canberra, so I was here for the fires..
There's a massive difference between the way pine plantations and native forest burn. All they had to do was keep the pine plantations away from the urban interface as numerous reports had suggested. Indeed, Burley-Griffin's original blue prints called for substantial grassland stretches between urban areas and the surrounding bush for that exact scenario.
Asking if I want all the trees removed is ridiculous hyperbole. The measures the government was warned to take would have saved hundreds of homes, not to mention human life.
Asking if I want all the trees removed is ridiculous hyperbole. The measures the government was warned to take would have saved hundreds of homes, not to mention human life.
