birding-aus

Qld. land clearing controls

To:
Subject: Qld. land clearing controls
From: Andy Burton's Bush Tours <>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:54:11 +1000
I suspect that clearing to stop erosion just might make sense under certain circumstances. Much of Australia's grassland has been replaced by 'woody weed' under which there is little understorey leaving the topsoils exposed to water runoff/flood.

Perhaps returning these lands to their original (Mitchell) grass vegetation provides better ground cover and therefore more protection for the topsoil

Any comment?

Andy


Peter

I was just beginning to think the same! Clearing to stop erosion????  It
must be a solution endemic to Queensland as it would never work in
Victoria around Bacchus Marsh or Lexton.  It sounds like on of those
arguments against daylight saving a few years ago - that the extra hour
of sunlight would fade the curtains quicker!!

We ( you as a resident and I as resident "by birth and heart") must be
missing something!??!  If anyone wants to prove me wrong and pay for the
opportunity, then I will happily oblige.

John Harris
B.App.Sc.(Biological Resource Management and Biology), Grad.Dip.Ed
Brisbane

Birding-Aus is on the Web at
www.shc.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/birding/index.html
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message
"unsubscribe birding-aus" (no quotes, no Subject line)
to 

--
Andy Burton's Bush Tours
12/8 Cambridge St,
Cammeray,
NSW  2062
Australia

Ph 61 2 9954 0893

Birding-Aus is on the Web at
www.shc.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/birding/index.html
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message
"unsubscribe birding-aus" (no quotes, no Subject line)
to 

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Admin

The University of NSW School of Computer and Engineering takes no responsibility for the contents of this archive. It is purely a compilation of material sent by many people to the birding-aus mailing list. It has not been checked for accuracy nor its content verified in any way. If you wish to get material removed from the archive or have other queries about the archive e-mail Andrew Taylor at this address: andrewt@cse.unsw.EDU.AU