Hi Denise,
Years ago I spent a couple of very instructive weeks with Prof.
Harry Messel and his crocodile survey team on the Blyth River. The Botanist
of the party, Graeme Wells, had developed a happy relationship with the
local people. (Took me to an out-station to meet them but unfortunately
they were mostly away on the day.)
I hope I'm quoting him correctly as saying that the land thereabouts was
nominally divided into areas each 'owned' by a particular individual, whose
responsibility it was to burn it periodically to prevent the build-up of too
much long grass and other fuel.
But he was expected to do this by means of very light fires - under
circumstances where a fire would usually go out during the night. And it
was considered a breach of good manners if his fire escaped from his area
and burnt into a neighbour's area.
Have I got that right?
Cheers
Syd
(BTW, I was greatly impressed by the crocs: how delightful a baby croc is,
with a cry almost like the voice of a human baby. And what ugly brutes the
really big ones are!)
> From: Denise Goodfellow <>
> Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:48:19 +0930
> To: Klaus & Brenda Uhlenhut <>, Birding Aus
> <>
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Bush fires and birds
>
> We also burnt country where the grass was long and dead. However, the only
> land burnt regularly was around outstations and tracks.
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