Wilpshire Blue
Senior Member
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Have a great 2020
Maybe Steve was p*ssed for a few days lol.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.Crikey you are about 5 hours behind Steve.... not 5 bloody days! Anyway all the best to you and yours.
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?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.