Constance Lever-Tracy (socl.n.ss@psy1.ssn.flinders.edu.au)
Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:22:27 +0000
This is a message Grant sent me and was ment to go to the whole list
but didn't. As Kevin is always complaining Lynda the Computer was
acting up again.
Natacha
At 01:45 PM 10/01/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Kevin's message about the snow reminded me is eveyone in NSW ok after
>the fire's ?
>They showed some pretty horrible footage in HK.
This is all fairly irrelevant and off-topic of me, but I was wondering if
any non-Australians knew how the Australian natural bushland works?
The whole ecosystem is designed to be naturally flushed out with fire on
a fairly regular basis. So huge bushfires in Australia are fairly common
occurences. (There's one on the hill behind me at the moment, and the wind
keeps blowing the smoke through the air conditioner and setting off the
fire alarm!)
You begin to get problems when you repeatedly put out the fires, because
fire acts as a natural preventative measure for some plant-based diseases.
(One example in Western Australia is a fungus called Jarrah Dieback, which
causes Jarrah trees to wither and die off. Fire kills off the fungus but
leaves the trees relatively unharmed. Because all the fires get put out,
the dieback is completely out of control in Southwest Australia.)
Don't know if anyone was interested, but I felt like telling it...
Cheers!
Grant.
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