http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2009/02/12/australias-bushfire-blunder/ where nature and culture meet Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:14:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2009/02/12/australias-bushfire-blunder/comment-page-1/#comment-79871 Alexander Harvey Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:51:16 +0000 http://www.collide-a-scape.com/?p=136#comment-79871 My this is a quite little corner of the web. Now why am I thinking of dharma, beats, phlebitis, and bums. Are the fire lookouts still manned? I thouht fire management was stuff we knew and understood. Eventually it burns, or so it seems. The lands get dry and it is just so much tinder under an unforgiving sun, I have seen the sadness of the blackened stumps and burned out communities where  forgotten Spain meets Portugal. For sure the heat is to blame as is the dry. They grow Euchalyptus there but also firs and pines, The native cork oak is made for fire so it is hardly a novelty that stuff burns. The cork oak brushes off the flames, it stands and soon fresh leaves fill its canopy. To own one is to marry it for they are protected heritage and with the holm oak they are the essence of the de hesa. Who will manage them when the last of the shepherds are gone? Alex My this is a quite little corner of the web.
Now why am I thinking of dharma, beats, phlebitis, and bums.
Are the fire lookouts still manned?
I thouht fire management was stuff we knew and understood. Eventually it burns, or so it seems. The lands get dry and it is just so much tinder under an unforgiving sun, I have seen the sadness of the blackened stumps and burned out communities where  forgotten Spain meets Portugal. For sure the heat is to blame as is the dry. They grow Euchalyptus there but also firs and pines, The native cork oak is made for fire so it is hardly a novelty that stuff burns. The cork oak brushes off the flames, it stands and soon fresh leaves fill its canopy. To own one is to marry it for they are protected heritage and with the holm oak they are the essence of the de hesa. Who will manage them when the last of the shepherds are gone?
Alex

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