Does anyone know whether Mallee Emu-wrens have survived the fires ?
We toured California for a month just before their recent disastrous bush
fires, some involving State and National Parks. California has more of these
than any other State by far, and an extremely well developed Conservation ethic.
Trump has allowed commercialisation of National (not State)
Parks, eg logging. This travesty is being challenged in the Courts and
hopefully will be reversed , or delayed until the advent of a more sympathetic
Administration, although that looks like being a long way off.
We didn't hear much about prophylactic burning, which would be patently
impossible in say the Redwood Forests, and unsafe in the areas of recent
conflagration, with loss of eight hundred houses in one report as proving the
point.
Legal liability is a powerful deterrent. In Australia as well as in the USA.
The Californian Maquis type scrub needs occasional burning, probably is
deliberately lit from time to time, I don't really know.
The US in practice does not have all the answers, and our Fire Services are
well up there with them.
To suggest that the whole of say East Gippsland or other usually high rainfall
areas of Eastern Australia should have been regularly back burned is
nonsensical, as is the concept of the Indigenous population having done so in
those areas, (as opposed to the monsoonal North of Oz).
Michael
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