On TV lately, I heard that lyrebirds turn over an enormous amount of soil with their scratchings, burying leaves so that they decompose rather than burn. Reducing the frequency of bushfires.
So, that means that if people went out into the forest and scratched the ground a lot we’d have fewer bushfires?
mollwollfumble said:
On TV lately, I heard that lyrebirds turn over an enormous amount of soil with their scratchings, burying leaves so that they decompose rather than burn. Reducing the frequency of bushfires.So, that means that if people went out into the forest and scratched the ground a lot we’d have fewer bushfires?
They might not be telling the truth given the type of bird they are
mollwollfumble said:
On TV lately, I heard that lyrebirds turn over an enormous amount of soil with their scratchings, burying leaves so that they decompose rather than burn. Reducing the frequency of bushfires.So, that means that if people went out into the forest and scratched the ground a lot we’d have fewer bushfires?
Possibly. But it is a lot of effort.
I’ve done a bit of cleaning an unkempt bush block for fire preparedness (and getting it ready for sale). We just hacked and cleared and raked and piled it all up into several small but manageable bonfires. It was a hel of a lot of work. Diggings holes and burying it would have been even more work. At least with a fire you get to stand around it and have a beer in the evening.
A lot depends on the vegetation, in North America where forests are largely pines with little ground vegetation, but do have a thick layer of pine needles, they drop people into approaching fires to scrape a cleared area (firebreak). However with most Australian bush there are usually many shrubs that would readily carry the flame, so here not very effective.
mollwollfumble said:
On TV lately, I heard that lyrebirds turn over an enormous amount of soil with their scratchings, burying leaves so that they decompose rather than burn. Reducing the frequency of bushfires.So, that means that if people went out into the forest and scratched the ground a lot we’d have fewer bushfires?
No.
There is no way on earth Donald Trump can get people raking the forest floor like lyrebirds do.
roughbarked said:
mollwollfumble said:
On TV lately, I heard that lyrebirds turn over an enormous amount of soil with their scratchings, burying leaves so that they decompose rather than burn. Reducing the frequency of bushfires.So, that means that if people went out into the forest and scratched the ground a lot we’d have fewer bushfires?
No.
There is no way on earth Donald Trump can get people raking the forest floor like lyrebirds do.
Could Bob Brown?
mollwollfumble said:
roughbarked said:
mollwollfumble said:
On TV lately, I heard that lyrebirds turn over an enormous amount of soil with their scratchings, burying leaves so that they decompose rather than burn. Reducing the frequency of bushfires.So, that means that if people went out into the forest and scratched the ground a lot we’d have fewer bushfires?
No.
There is no way on earth Donald Trump can get people raking the forest floor like lyrebirds do.
Could Bob Brown?
No.
roughbarked said:
mollwollfumble said:
roughbarked said:No.
There is no way on earth Donald Trump can get people raking the forest floor like lyrebirds do.
Could Bob Brown?
No.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
mollwollfumble said:Could Bob Brown?
No.
It isn’t only lyrebirds. Wombats do a lot of digging. The real issue is that we have very few of these helpful animals managing our forests these days.
We don’t get any wombats or lyrebirds over this way.
dv said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:No.
It isn’t only lyrebirds. Wombats do a lot of digging. The real issue is that we have very few of these helpful animals managing our forests these days.
We don’t get any wombats or lyrebirds over this way.
Yeah but you have sandgropers.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
mollwollfumble said:Could Bob Brown?
No.
It isn’t only lyrebirds. Wombats do a lot of digging. The real issue is that we have very few of these helpful animals managing our forests these days.
Drones
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:No.
It isn’t only lyrebirds. Wombats do a lot of digging. The real issue is that we have very few of these helpful animals managing our forests these days.
Drones
Digging drones? Mulch scratching drones?