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Re: FIRES
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lugnet.loc.au
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Sat, 7 Dec 2002 04:55:41 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richie Dulin writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Stephen Hurn writes:
> <snip>
> > The Aboriginals
> > used to backburn all the time precisely to avoid these kind of fires.
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> Really? "...precisely to avoid these kind of fires"? I thought that it was
> generally to drive game into the open....
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> Richie
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!
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 | | Re: FIRES
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| In lugnet.loc.au, Stephen Hurn writes: <snip> (...) Really? "...precisely to avoid these kind of fires"? I thought that it was generally to drive game into the open.... Richie (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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