01-20-2020, 08:55 PM
So much for not burning off, the gift that keeps on giving!
Run off into creeks from the rain is already killing fish by the thousands according to reports coming from East Gippsland this morning.
I must admit I'm very sceptical about the previous conditions preventing burn-off, so is my brother who is CFA and lives near a state forest. He' told me they have been begging the DSE to let them do control burns for three years and they keep getting refused permission with claims it was too dry. But he said the peaks of some areas near him had snow on them, while other peaks had been cleared of all trees for, wait for it, wind turbines!
So we suspect the real reason for missing targets and resorting to "strategic burns" comes courtesy of some bean-counter somewhere who now has a fat bonus for cutting/saving million$ from the spend on forestry management!
I think the correct term to describe the situation is "Cluster of Fork", or something like that!
Run off into creeks from the rain is already killing fish by the thousands according to reports coming from East Gippsland this morning.
I must admit I'm very sceptical about the previous conditions preventing burn-off, so is my brother who is CFA and lives near a state forest. He' told me they have been begging the DSE to let them do control burns for three years and they keep getting refused permission with claims it was too dry. But he said the peaks of some areas near him had snow on them, while other peaks had been cleared of all trees for, wait for it, wind turbines!
So we suspect the real reason for missing targets and resorting to "strategic burns" comes courtesy of some bean-counter somewhere who now has a fat bonus for cutting/saving million$ from the spend on forestry management!
I think the correct term to describe the situation is "Cluster of Fork", or something like that!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"