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We haven’t had regular postal service (or courier) for about a month between the Hume Highway closures and the AQI getting the posties off the streets.Buy a really decent mask if you are riding in that.
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Live in Melbourne (inner suburbs), work in Coburg. Office would probably be 70/30 born and raised in the city and suburbs to rural areas, although we have quite a few ex-ADF personnel so they've all traveled around a bit and have likely have more of an interest in emergency management stuff than others.Where do you live/work, Mike?
Not going on holidays to fire threatened places like the south coast of NSW would be a good start. That's a pretty good indication of someone's concern and selfishness to me.Wtf are they meant to do, run about the place screaming like chicken little?
In Victoria at least the CFA volunteer brigade has a damaging and unproductive culture problem of hating the paid DWELP fire fighters.I was surprised at the number of firies that came through my place blaming the greens for this. One validated it saying the EPA has shut down a lot of hazard reduction because the poor city folk don't like the smoke it causes.
I only notice the trees that jump out in front of me on fast sections.... Bloody trees, burn them all!as mountain bikers, has anyone else noticed the huge increase in sticks and leaf litter over the last month? bad habit of gum trees that when stressed they start shedding - i expect thats part of the fuel problem...
Oops sorry. You just posted in such an uncharismatic way that I missed the content entirely!
Our place resembles that. Over the last twelve months things have got progressively worse. We are loosing mature trees on the ridgelines and many others further down have shed much of their canopy and outer branches. We can also see much further through the understorey...as mountain bikers, has anyone else noticed the huge increase in sticks and leaf litter over the last month? bad habit of gum trees that when stressed they start shedding - i expect thats part of the fuel problem...
Exactly why hazard-reduction can be counter-productive in a lot of places, the regrowth can be like a powder-keg.The local fire management specialist told me last month that if an area around here with a diminished or removed canopy is allowed to regenerate then the greatest fire risk occurs within the first 10 years and then declines over the following 20 before beginning to rise again. Primarily, because of the shrub and understorey having a wonderful time with a reduced canopy...
That's a lot better than the reply I wrote. Looking through the bush, you can see much further than usual.Our place resembles that. Over the last twelve months things have got progressively worse. We are loosing mature trees on the ridgelines and many others further down have shed much of their canopy and outer branches. We can also see much further through the understorey...
Interesting thing is though...if the overstorey is diminished (around here anyway) then the understorey and shrub layer goes berserk with extra light (not to mention water). Which makes it more fireprone.
The local fire management specialist told me last month that if an area around here with a diminished or removed canopy is allowed to regenerate then the greatest fire risk occurs within the first 10 years and then declines over the following 20 before beginning to rise again. Primarily, because of the shrub and understorey having a wonderful time with a reduced canopy...
Landscape restoration is what we are trying to do here. Mainly on the cleared 15 acres. The rest is mostly about managing trails and trail erosion within the bush block so that the water is retained within the block as much as possible.Exactly why hazard-reduction can be counter-productive in a lot of places, the regrowth can be like a powder-keg.
Would love to see more focus on restoring natural flows of water across our land to help assist evaporation and rain creation, having forests periodically wet from rain (even if it is a summer storm) is the best hazard reduction IMO. You can have heaps of debris and dead trees providing habitat and adding nourishment to the soil as long as they're wet.