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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Brush Fires and My Yahoo!

 It's really difficult to find the stories about perversion of 'green' concerns to cause fires by 'regulations' and fines...in Texas and Australia. Here's why we should Search and Note such.

President Bush's Vacation Habits : NPR

4 Aug 2005 ... President Bush has gone to his ranch in Crawford, Texas, for a nearly ... all the brush-clearing that he's done, there wouldn't be a stitch of it left, ...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4785289

Brush

 

 Farm Practices - Land Clearing

Value of Brush Removal Is Clear

Two fires 32 years apart on the same hillside show how cutting back vegetation saves homes.

The 1973 fire, which burned about a dozen homes in Rolling Hills and Rancho Palos Verdes, marked the beginnings of a fire-preparedness revolution in the two communities and the rest of Los Angeles County.

The two communities became among the first in the region to aggressively enforce brush-clearing regulations, a model later copied by the county Fire Department. 

Rancho Palos Verdes and Rolling Hills residents have long been required to clear brush. But officials and homeowners agree that before 1973, compliance was lax. There was no official process of inspection, and there were no repercussions for residents who didn't clear, fire officials said.

 

 San Diego residential brush removal and fire abatement rules, regulations and suggestions.

Protect your San Diego home now from catastrophic damage during a brushfire. 

 

Greenhouse, Land Management and Carbon Sequestration in Western Australia

Greenhouse gases and their relevance to land management

Carbon Farmers of Australia

Changing chemical culture
If the federal government is serious about storing carbon in soil it needs to invest in biological farming instead of relying so heavily on chemicals, two regional scientists say.

Burnoffs 'need to be halved'
THE number of bushfires deliberately lit by authorities should be halved, says a CSIRO scientist. Ecologist Anna Richards yesterday said some patches of savanna were burnt every two or three years.
 

Trees cost too much, take too long

Friday, June 24, 2011
It will cost too much to plant large carbon forests, says the CSIRO which has been studying areas of opportunity for carbon forestry, especially in the Murray-Darling Basin. It found the shortage of tree seed and labour would limit plantings. "What you find is if there's a high establishment cost, say $3000 per hectare, and you start to look at commercial interest rates, it's going to take a high carbon price, say over $40 a tonne, to see any real area of opportunity over which carbon forestry will be profitable," says Dr Michael Battaglia.

City of Casey  'Carbon Sink' proposal


The wild rivers swindle 

State and federal governments are accused of stealing carbon credits from their rightful owners 

The question that looms large is: How should the bill be settled for what some people claim has been one of the most underhanded wealth transfers in the history of the nation?
According to detractors, the compounding effect of environmental protection laws has been to lock indigenous communities across northern Australia out of the new green economy that will be built on carbon sinks and what is known as payment for environmental services.
Instead, state and federal governments have used environmental laws to seize control of the carbon locked up in wilderness areas and trade it for profit.
The asset clearly has economic value because it was booked in the nation's carbon accounts, enabling the Howard government to boast Australia had met its Kyoto emission targets despite not signing up to the compact that was later signed by Kevin Rudd.
The continuing economic benefit for all Australians is that the heavy lifting required through acarbon tax or other scheme that may be put in place is that much lighter.
For traditional owners, it is yet another chapter in a never-ending series of opportunities lost.
This month's The Economist magazine has a 14-page special report on forest conservation. It highlights developing models under which landholders can be rewarded for good environmental management to offset the bad practices committed by others somewhere else.
Both sides of the Wild Rivers debate acknowledge the carbon economy opportunities in things such as returning to traditional methods of fire management.
But Pearson's argument on carbon rights goes much further.
The Wilderness Society remains mistrustful of Pearson and sceptical of his claims. According to long-time Wilderness Society Wild Rivers campaigner Glenn Walker: "From our perspective, I don't see how it works in policy terms.
"Giving people clearing permits which are then traded back; how do you manage people who do clear?"
Livestock Grazing as a Resource Management Tool
Managing Year-Around Herds Using High
and Low Elevation Grazing Units
California’s private and public grazing lands are often listed and discussed separately but they are
frequently interdependent with one another. For example, ranchers who have high-elevation private
land or public grazing allotments/leases are dependent on having low-elevation private land or public
grazing allotments/leases to move to when the first major snowfall takes place in the high country
during the fall. To meet the herd’s forage requirements in the late fall and through the winter these
low-elevation grazing lands must have high levels of forage to graze. And, likewise in the spring after
the snowmelt, the herd would be removed from the lands at low-elevation and taken back to the highelevation
grazing areas. Taking the herd off of the low elevation grazing lands early allows the
pasture forage to grow and mature with only minimal forage utilization.

( This is what was destroyed in Afghanistan when nomadic herders were no longer able to move to their seasonal pastures in Pakistan - destroying local livestock capacity and causing chronic starvation. The herds themselves - with bloodlines reaching back eons - are endangered species now. )

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