"If you want to do a lot of hectares fast and cheaply this is the sort of result you get," she said.
I like numbats. I hope this makes all those fuckwits demanding more back burning in 2019 realise how fucking stupid they are.
Fuckwits are demanding more backburning because they don't understand the terminology and confuse it with "controlled" or fuel reduction burns.I like numbats. I hope this makes all those fuckwits demanding more back burning in 2019 realise how fucking stupid they are.
That's how fuel reduction burns are lit via ping pong looking inceduries sometimes via helicopters and vehicles. Nothing sinister it's just practicality.Sorry but how do aerial incendiaries constitute controlled burning? WTAF.
Some of it is. Most of it is hand lit with drip torches.That's how fuel reduction burns are lit via ping pong looking inceduries sometimes via helicopters and vehicles. Nothing sinister it's just practicality.
Been done this way for decades in forests.
Not in Vic. Ping pong balls from the sky are the standard way of cleaning up a logging coup and burning remote areas thet don't need to be burnt to meet targets for fuel reduction.Some of it is. Most of it is hand lit with drip torches.
All of it is useless for protecting in any way against big fires, but gives the conservatives something more to whinge about. Fuckwits.
It was in Victoria that I did a few seasons with DSE doing controlled burns. We used drip torches - mix of half petrol and diesel that we walked along dropping like napalm.Not in Vic. Ping pong balls from the sky are the standard way of cleaning up a logging coup and burning remote areas thet don't need to be burnt to meet targets for fuel reduction.
That's bullshit, less fuel = smaller/less intense fires, it is however hard to achieve on a large scale.Some of it is. Most of it is hand lit with drip torches.
All of it is useless for protecting in any way against big fires, but gives the conservatives something more to whinge about. Fuckwits.
Its not bullshit. Fuel reduction burns remove low level undergrowth - big fires jump from crown to crown.That's bullshit, less fuel = smaller/less intense fires, it is however hard to achieve on a large scale.
So we need to cut down more trees and thin out the forests? Or should we have people in there sweeping and raking?Its not bullshit. Fuel reduction burns remove low level undergrowth - big fires jump from crown to crown.
Cut down all the trees. It’s the only way to be sure.So we need to cut down more trees and thin out the forests? Or should we have people in there sweeping and raking?
Bushfires will only continue to get worse — and prescribed burning more difficult to carry out safely — as climate change continues to escalate.
Unless we address climate change and urgently reduce our emissions as part of a global effort, the window of opportunity for prescribed burning will continue to shrink. And as bushfire weather worsens, the effectiveness of hazard reduction will diminish. No amount of hazard reduction will protect human lives, animals and properties from catastrophic fires.
That's the whole reason for fuel reduction fires is to try and prevent/limit big fires.Its not bullshit. Fuel reduction burns remove low level undergrowth - big fires jump from crown to crown.
Healthy forests do not need management. Deal with climate change, leave forests alone so they get a chance to mature and accept that they burn.That's the whole reason for fuel reduction fires is to try and prevent/limit big fires.
Sure the catastrophic days it's going to be unstoppable until conditions are favouroble.
Doing nothing will only make matters worse. If you have a better way of managing the forests I'm keen to hear it.
Bloody numbats... they had it coming.It feels good and is a visible signs that we are doing something about the risks. Could you imagine the chaos of a massive bush fire that could happen if a numbat or other marsupial was to catch on fire and run through the forest?
No, the main reason for the amount of fuel reduction burning that is done is propaganda. The conservatives have everybody hoodwinked into believing the answer to bushfires, rather than listening to the scientists is fuel reduction burns and that it's got nothing to do with climate change or years of mismanagement by the logging industry.That's the whole reason for fuel reduction fires is to try and prevent/limit big fires.
Sure the catastrophic days it's going to be unstoppable until conditions are favouroble.
Doing nothing will only make matters worse. If you have a better way of managing the forests I'm keen to hear it.