Happy New Year

[Wilpshire Blue]

Happy New Year to everyone who visits and contributes to our community.
Have a great 2020

 

[OnlyOneTugay]

Cheers WB and Happy New Year to all on Roversfans - the numero uno !

 

[Drog]

Rather drowsy but a HNY to all.

 

[Smells Like Kean Spirit]

HNY. All the best for 2020. Here's hoping for a great new decade for The Rovers.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

All the best to one and all on here.

 

[Steve Moss]

Happy (Belated) New Year.

 

[Drog]

Crikey you are about 5 hours behind Steve.... not 5 bloody days! Anyway all the best to you and yours.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Crikey you are about 5 hours behind Steve.... not 5 bloody days! Anyway all the best to you and yours.

Maybe Steve was p*ssed for a few days lol.

 

[Drog]

Forgot to tell him........... Bene's great but Bene hangovers are the worst!

 

[davebirch]

Fires calming down here a little bit, Happy New Year everyone

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Thank God for that Dave, the tv pictures look like hell on earth.

 

[Steve Moss]

Crikey you are about 5 hours behind Steve.... not 5 bloody days! Anyway all the best to you and yours.

I was deep in the Pennsylvania forest with limited connectivity. It was fantastic.

 

[davebirch]

ODB, The fires have been the worst, ever.
If you look at a topographical map of the east coast of Australia, you'll see that the great dividing Range goes up the coast from top to bottom. Much of that is covered by National parks which are very hilly and for the purposes of fire fighting are inaccessible, so they burn until it rains or get burned out.
Just to give you some idea of how inaccessible, about 20 or so years ago a park ranger found some trees that were thought to be a new species (or something like that). They were found in a deep valley some 150 kms from Sydney.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollemia.
The park they were found in has been badly affected by the latest fires.
The aborigines used fire as a land management tool. We could learn a lot from them.

 

[Smells Like Kean Spirit]

ODB, The fires have been the worst, ever.
If you look at a topographical map of the east coast of Australia, you'll see that the great dividing Range goes up the coast from top to bottom. Much of that is covered by National parks which are very hilly and for the purposes of fire fighting are inaccessible, so they burn until it rains or get burned out.
Just to give you some idea of how inaccessible, about 20 or so years ago a park ranger found some trees that were thought to be a new species (or something like that). They were found in a deep valley some 150 kms from Sydney.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollemia.
The park they were found in has been badly affected by the latest fires.
The aborigines used fire as a land management tool. We could learn a lot from them.

Like you say DB, fire has always been part of the natural cycle in Oz. I heard that eucalyptus trees are contributing to the spread because they are so flammable. Do you know if these are indigenous to the outback, or if they were introduced?

 

[davebirch]

SLKS, eucalypts are indigenous to Aus, and boy do they burn! If you get a fire that get's into the canopy, they explode.
On hot days if you walk under a few eucalypts you can smell the scent (if I can call it that). What makes things worse, is they shed their bark, which obviously drops to the ground, adding to the fuel available for burning, and during the hot summers they drop their leaves to reduce evaporation also adding to the fire pile on the ground.