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Re: Sydney's fires - a short story
- To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Sydney's fires - a short story
- From: Loren Davidson <loren@farwalker.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:10:47 -0800
- In-reply-to: <LISTMANAGER-100945-36753-2001.12.26-22.05.49--loren#farwalker.com@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Newsgroups: permaculture
At 02:03 PM 12/27/01 +1100, Pacific Edge Permaculture + Media wrote:
>HOW AUSTRALIAN FORESTS END UP ON NEW ZEALAND SNOWFIELDS
>
>As I sit writing this message in a southern suburb of Sydney, Australia, a
>fallout of cinders and burned eucalyptus leaves continues to descend on the
>city, just as it has these past two days.
I hope that you are safe where you are.
>Here in the south-east, a vast biome dominated by eucalypt forest, the fire
>season comes in summer - late December and January.
Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, half a world away, the very same
eucalyptus was one of the main contributors to the big Oakland fire in
October of 1991 - hundreds of homes destroyed - and for many of the same
reasons. We also have a fire/flood ecology here...but eucalyptus isn't a
native species here; it was brought over by people who saw how fast it grew
and figured they could use it for something - initially for railroad ties,
for which it was poorly suited.
Amazing how many things we can have in common across so many miles. I hope
that things don't go as badly there now as they did here a little over ten
years ago.
Take care,
Loren
Loren Davidson Permaculturist, philosopher, writer
loren@farwalker.com http://www.earthspring.org/loren/
AIM: loren334 ICQ: 65291610
"We have to create the future, or others will do it for us" - Gen. S.
Ivanova, ret.