by newhue » Mon 03 Oct, 2016 3:46 pm
Just spent the weekend down at Girraween NP, I pondered, wondered, and thought could I really advocate such a thing as I watched mum roo hop around with joie. Feet and head sticking out the pouch as they grazed the grass, such a cute sight. But its the bigger picture that keeps coming home to me in regard to Global Warming. It's going to affect us, we need to change, we need to find alternatives even if they are different to what we do now.
I once had a father in-law who was commissioned to cull rabbits. He used a fence around a water hole with a gate. Left it open at night, closed it in the morning, and the rest one can work out. Watching these roos at Girraween, they disappear into the scrub during the day but come out late afternoon to graze on the clearings with good grass, often that they have made and tend to. Perhaps some kind of "they come to you" can be worked out. Maybe us white blokes should ask a black bloke how it was done.
I noticed the other day coming home from the Blue Mountains once one changes what they are looking for with regen trees, it's pretty easy to work it out. It seems much of it are wind or privacy screens planted in straight lines evenly spaced, and about 4 to 8m wide. This would be for ease, speed, and cost. Often only a few species, and are often all in similar height; so it highlights the work to some degree of what has been done. But it worried me for a reasonable part, that what I was considering as remnant growth spared from original clearing, was actually wind breaks and privacy planting from 30 40 50 years ago. Which O wondered if one takes in just what they see from the car, all the regen work new and old may be lucky to fill in 1000 acres amongst the 100's of 1000's of cleared acres between Bis and Blue Mtns. Certainly around Walcha to Armidale it seems councils, someone or some group are very active with regen for wind breaks or privacy. But Nth of there in Qld it's slim sightings.