hybridbloke, a question totally off topic. Any farmers in your region concerned about the blazes in the Grampians - it seems the bloody place is always going up?

Ah, the delights of days gone bye of being under canvass in the back of the ute and waking up to frost at Zumsteins Crossing.

g'day judd. the grampians fires are part of the whole 'fires on government land' situation.

wise use of the resource or 'lock it up,then look bemused when it burns'

the carbon cycle cannot be stopped,just postponed. in the old days megafauna played a big role in cycling vegetative carbon. nowadays in australia.eucalypts use fire to remove their competition and cycle carbon.

controlled burns to cool burn patches in autumn and spring is the policy, but it is marginally successful.

who is responsible for carbon released from the national estate during a bushfire?.

the usual suspects say it doesn't count,as trees grow back eventually and cycle the carbon. when farmers say that sheep do the same thing as a controlled burn,the 'meat is carbon pollution' crowd go vacant and scream 'denier'.

is the smoke from a cooonara wood burning heater worse than the smoke from a bushfire?.

the 'carbon accounting' system coming for farmland somehow avoids the largest slab of land in australia,the government owned land. just ignore bushfires and remember that spraying chemicals,growing food and eating meat is 'bad for carbon'. sin taxes are for peoples emotions,not better outcomes.