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A study of the conservation benefits of indigenous Australian land manag

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Subject: A study of the conservation benefits of indigenous Australian land manag
From: John Weigel <>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:57:00 +1000
G'day Laurie,

With the utmost respect, on this issue, I've got to take the other side of this 
important conservation crisis, and suggest that if you haven't visited Kakadu 
in the past five or six years, you might be in for a shock when you next search 
for ground-dwelling fauna of any sort - particularly reptiles and small 
mammals. It would be hard to find a burn scar less than 10-fold the figure you 
have quoted. In fact, it can be a challenge to find an area that size that 
HASN'T been burned in past few years. Instead of a 'mosaic' approach based on 
allowing proper maturing of the rapidly receding spinifex habitats to reach 
maturity, the current management process in Kakadu is to apply 'mosaic' burns 
to any areas that have been spared far less time than required to see return of 
complex ecologies including long-lived reptiles (and presumably grass wrens). 
In short, the traditional burning by nomadic tribes was not assisted by Cessna 
'blanket' fire-drops, Toyotas and automatic lighters. 



Content preview:  G?day Martin Are you suggesting that Aborigines haven?t been
    lighting fires at Kakadu for thousands of years or that traditional fires
    are hot burns? You might like to read the article. The point of the article
    is that "Martu-set fires average about 10 acres -- a small fraction of the
    size of fires ignited by lightning ... that patchy vegetation created by
   intentional fires reduce the likelihood of devastating, large blazes.? [...]
    
 
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