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BellingenNSW

A combustible world: "Any city can burn now. "
21st-century fires

"The intensity of the fire ...burned basically the same way as the ones in LA. You had the drought, you had the fuel, you had the wind and that’s all you need. That can be recreated anywhere in the world. Any city can burn now. "

"Don’t look at the fire, look at the wind. If the wind is blowing over you, it means the embers are, too. The fire could be 2 miles away, but if the wind is toward you, the embers are, too, and act accordingly."
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theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

"Fire fuel "used to be thought of as "the bush" leaf litter, grasses, shrubs, trees, in short Australian biodiversity. Now it is also houses, all the stuff and the petrol derived products and infrastructure.

Bushfire fuel classification overview >>
afac.com.au/docs/default-sourc
#fires #bushfires #Fossilfuels #combustion #wind #cars #HomoFagrans #energy #petrotopia #plastic #housing #cities #sprawl #flammable #fuel #chemicals #trauma #vegetation #biodiversity #TheBush #HazardReduction #ClimateBreakdown

The Guardian · How the climate crisis fuels devastating wildfires: ‘We have tweaked nature and pissed it off’By Victoria Namkung
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BellingenNSW

Are Australia's 4WD enthusiasts wrecking the bush?
From bushwalking to ALL TERRAIN driving in the bush

"4WD touring is booming and it's putting unprecedented pressure on the bush. The increased traffic is also degrading many of the tracks...Many of the tracks are historical — initially built for logging, gold mining or firebreaks — and are not designed for four-wheel driving. These tracks proliferate, they very rarely disappear."

"Something bogs up, drivers go round it, and it gets bigger, damages vegetation and spreads weeds and pests...The rules for four-wheel drives are the same whether you're in a national park or in a state forest, you're supposed to drive them on a road. You're not supposed to drive them around in the bush, willy nilly."

"Seasonal closures can also protect areas at risk of degradation.The spokesperson says 181 infringements totalling more than $60,000 were given to people caught driving cars or riding trail bikes illegally off-road or in restricted areas last year."

Déjà vu of SUVs being washed in a perennial stream (Orara River) on the eastern slopes of the Dorrigo Plateau and nappies deposited on river rocks.
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abc.net.au/news/2024-07-13/4wd
#conservation #NPs #TheBush #NSW #TheDrive #Bellingen #Orara #rivers #NeverNever #SUVs #ATV #OffRoad #DomesticTourism #rubbish #weeds #toilets #degradation #car #culture #regulation #bushwalking #biodiversity #habitat #climate

ABC News · 4WD touring is booming and it's putting unprecedented pressure on the bushWith more people than ever owning four-wheel drives and taking them off-road to explore the bush, wilderness areas are under unprecedented pressure. So what are the off-road rules?
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BellingenNSW

There is no magic “poop fairy” to pick up the dog droppings

Flags planted in dog feces? The proliferation of dog droppings in parks, yards and neighborhoods is a problem in many locations around the world, and one that may only have worsened during the pandemic, when many people adopted new dogs."
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theguardian.com/us-news/2024/j
#dogs #pets #faeces #meat #waste #NatureReserves #Bellingen #TheBush #beach #wildlife

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BellingenNSW

Sydney's mass tree vandalism
“This is happening all over the country, all of the time."

"A disjunct between weak punishment and the crime, a colonial-settler impulse to control native bush, an overriding sense, perhaps, that public property has less value than private – impels them, regardless, to vandalise majestic trees."

"The novelist and celebrated nature writer James Bradley says the “hatred of trees” is a settler-colonial legacy of the desire to impose order on the natural landscape and a symptom of increased alienation from nature."

“Trees have helped shape and sustain human cultures for hundreds of thousands of years. Many Indigenous cultures recognise this with systems of reciprocity that connect them to trees, within which trees are not just living beings, but actually relatives or kin. That connection has been disrupted by the processes of extraction that have seen most of the world’s forests cleared, and the hostility to trees you hear when people complain about their messiness, or them blocking their view."

“The more science learns about trees, the more we realise that even though they exist upon quite different timescales to humans, they are beings, with the ability to communicate and learn. And that they aren’t just good for the environment, they’re good for us, and just being around them makes us calmer, improves our mood, and makes us feel more connected to the world around us.”
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theguardian.com/australia-news

James Bradley
cityoftongues.com/about/
#HarbourViews #PropertyValues #Sydney #views #LaneCove #CastleCove #crime #entitlement #SettlerSociety #legacy #BotanicalColonisation #LoggingIndustry #values #extractivism #reciprocity #NativeForests #biodiversity #wildlife #TheBush

No one gives a fig - Manly ocean views
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BellingenNSW

Dumping of cats and dogs a danger to native wildlife

"Cats not accepted at RSPCA NSW shelters for another month amid vaccine shortage. The decision has prompted concern that the illegal dumping of unwanted animals could increase. Invasive Species Council conservation officer Candice Bartlett said a rise in feral cat populations could have devastating impacts on native wildlife...Each year in Australia, cats that are allowed to roam kill 323 million native animals."

abc.net.au/news/2023-11-27/cat
#pets #cats #dogs #OverCrowding #consumers #ThrowAwaySociety #dumping #ferals #ChristmasHolidays #wildlife #TheBush #conservation #biodiversity #ExtinctionCrisis

ABC News · Cats not accepted at RSPCA NSW shelters for another month amid vaccine shortageBy Peter Sanders
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BellingenNSW

Decolonising Fire Science -
Dr Philip Zylstra with Uncle David Wandin
"Ecologist and environmental scientist Dr Philip Zylstra is joined by Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Elder, Uncle David Wandin demonstrate how a paradigm of cooperation rather than domination allowed for the long-term coexistence with fire demonstrated by First Peoples, and the ways that we can adjust our current approaches to cooperate with Country".

youtube.com/watch?v=ahilyWGPd1
#IndigenousKnowledge #fire #wildlife #biodiversity #Kinship #coexistence #OldGrowthForest #colonial #narrative #pseudoscience #FuelReduction #narrative #bushfire #TheBush #ColonialAustralia #domination #LandUse #settlers #grazing #biomass #litter #PrescribedBurns

YouTubeDecolonising Fire Science - Dr Philip Zylstra with Uncle David WandinBy The Royal Society of Victoria
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Clem Byard

Here is a link to another #Haibun * I wrote
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It is about a short bushwalk I took in an area of #GreyBox forest at a place call #Eynesbury, about an hour drive west of #Naarm (#Melbourne, Australia), back in August 2020
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* A haibun could be thought of as a short personal essay that includes a #haiku
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#AustralianHaiku #AustralianPoetry #TheBush #Snakes #BoxWood #Bushwalking
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clembyard.com/2020/08/23/eynes

Haiku & HaibunEynesbury: Grey Box ForestBy Clem Byard
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