> Chris Coleborn wrote
> >
> > For those interested in birds and other desert fauna and its flora will
be
> > concerned to know of a huge bushfire in the Simpson Desert. A report on
it
> > can be accessed on
> > http://www.smh.com.au/news/0202/02/national/national16.html
> >
To put this in context with the huge fuel loads following two good seasons
fire is inevitable in this region. I made three trips into the NT part of
the desert Sept to November, and it was obvious that it would only need a
lightning strike to ignite the rapidly drying vegetation.
Fire must be seen as part of the natural cycle in the region, along with
severe droughts and boom seasons, and the species there have adapted to
cope
> with it.
Robert Read
Alice Springs
>
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