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Re: FIRES
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lugnet.loc.au
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Fri, 6 Dec 2002 22:00:24 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Stephen Hurn writes:
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> The Aboriginals
> used to backburn all the time precisely to avoid these kind of fires.
Really? "...precisely to avoid these kind of fires"? I thought that it was
generally to drive game into the open....
Richie
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| (...) Nonetheless, it *did* prevent these kind of fires. Whatever their motivation, the environment grew used to it, and dependant on it. Now that the smaller fires are gone, the environment doesn't know what to do! (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) It's a shame that environmentalists who don't know what they are talking about pressure the government into banning backburning. The Aboriginals used to backburn all the time precisely to avoid these kind of fires. Without it, a lot of fuel (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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