How much brush reduction is being done in Australia, or do their government officials and their natural resource managers have the “California” mindset when it comes to dealing with these seasonal fires over there?
“..How much brush reduction is being done in Australia, “
It’s not that comparable a situation. First, these fires are primarily (not all) brush, scrub bushes, and I don’t imagine anyone is in much of a “preservation” mode of thinking about it/them.
Second, if you look at maps of the affected areas, we are talking vast. Australia is more or less about the same size as CONUS and these fires are happening all around the perimeter.
Third, in the US, the California-enviro mindset (against logging deadwood and piled-up slash from forests and maintaining fire roads) has been complained about and “doomsayed” for decades. All I am saying with this point is that the anti-fire measures that COULD HAVE been taken in CA in a VERY organized, controlled fashion and even partially paid for by the proceeds from lumber sales.
If you wanted to say that the Aussies have been on the negligent side not clearing brush I would not disagree, but I’m not on the ground there. Specifically, I don’t know if there were widespread warnings within Aus about this kind of thing, not that there should be any big surprise when severe drought into fire season produces nearly inevitable results.
“ How much brush reduction is being done in Australia, or do their government officials and their natural resource managers have the “California” mindset when it comes to dealing with these seasonal fires over there?”
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Exactly what I was thinking. Saw a map of the fires this morning and nearly all of them are along the east coast crescent. Coincidentally, 90% of Aussies live within one hundred miles of the pacific coast.