Biodiversity is not a static thing ,,,
This patch ridden picture of the 1939 bushfires illustrates a process that has been happening in the Otways and southern Victoria for eons ; The patchy removal and replacement of vegetation .If it wasn't for such a process we wouldn't have Northofagus cunninghamii in a few valleys at Maits rest ( must see place) and the diverse types of mixed types of native regeneration that make the southern Otways ( for us and Victoria ) so interesting both for plants , animals protozoa fungi and you name it . Valley vegetation on the the central southern fall of the Otways is not easily burnt.
The Otways is a great area and a great area for trees. As stated many times over by those who know how to manage the environment , we need to encourage our city centric leaders to have the bigger vision of biodiversity and adopt the long term vision of replacing and regenerating them .
The shallow and incomplete legislation which has ruled Victoria for 30 years must be replaced. All sides of government are complicit in this complete cockup. The NVR legislation has made people believe RETENTION ( the last word in NVR ) is the best way to create biodiversity . It is the NOT last word on biodiversity and barely the first.
Today in the Colac paper we have yet another incomplete discussion on finding more habitat for koalas currently starving at Cape Otway . If koalas had more new young regrowth there would be more of them and more room for them. Koalas get an inefficient form of young regrowth along the coast because of salt pruning of the older leaves . Even age stands of native vegetation are not natural, even in central areas . Consider the effect of the 1939 fires .
Can I encourage you ( cause we can't do it alone) to encourage our leaders to continue to do what they have started; Resist the overly simple stuff from Spring Street and plan for replacement as a priority -
We are not Museum Victoria, but living, dynamic Victoria out here Call for new biodiversity and conservation legislation that is not stuck in the past or the present; Legislation that clearly takes us all into the future.
Yes if you want to see koalas ,,,,,,,you now know where to look .
Labels: biodiversity, koala culls, native regeneration, overmature, patterns of regrowth, preserving ant habitat, reseeding
posted by Little John at 9:43 AM
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Team ABC tell us how it all works - I don't think ""
They tell us authoritatively about manna gums and how they are the feed on choice - tell us something we don't know .
Why do we put up with second rate science from the ABC and our politically dumb environment departments Digestibility is deeper than a name ; big picture should be the name of the game.
When we had a team researching local environmental problems, (tis no more . Now we have Lisa Neville and her advisers ) we noted that manna and swamp gum survived well when planted in the windy landscapes of the West . Probably to do with the flexible petiole and leaf and branch structure ( and a few other things) Whatever the resilience process, there was, it was much more than those who name things want to know . In studying the land systems, it was possible to make some predictions about what was growing where and why , That sort of knowledge though is built on soil and landscape understanding no longer taught but taken over by wannabe preachers who know nothing but names for things http?/meredescription.blogspot.com.
Clearly, if the Environment and Tourist department did know something more than a name to blame they would have provided some regeneration on Phillip island reserves instead of maintaining their myopic view of what works in Nature and leaving the forest to rot .
If these newboys studied anything they would realise how hard the wood was for habitat and how the ants and fungi were getting the most protection from our action.
Meanwhile while they experiment madly , we are supposed to love monocultures , not diversity and mixed aged ecosystems as nature intended.
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