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- Tue Nov 06, 2012 8:09 pm
- Forum: Your experiences with other theories and practices
- Topic: Trees are killing our Koalas
- Replies: 13
- Views: 23018
Re: Trees are killing our Koalas
This is an interesting development to the thread. Thanks for the persistence and clarifications. Its hard for me to imagine how Australia out west, but Im sure there would have been many pockets of diverse environments. Here in the photos, I can see that the trees hampered the development of grasses...
- Mon Nov 05, 2012 2:59 am
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: NSF is working in WA
- Replies: 142
- Views: 183496
Re: NSF is working in WA
Our farmers have to be the bravest people!
All the best, Ian.
All the best, Ian.
- Fri Nov 02, 2012 6:15 pm
- Forum: Information for the Day
- Topic: Recommissioning Nature’s flood fertigation infrastructure
- Replies: 0
- Views: 19206
Recommissioning Nature’s flood fertigation infrastructure
Great posts at http://earthintegral.com/2012/11/02/recommissioning-natures-flood-fertigation-infrastructure/ by Cam Wilson. Cam is a great student of Peter Andrews and in my mind is one Peter's best interpreters, as far as he can take the complex issue of landscape function and make it easily digest...
- Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:30 pm
- Forum: Carbon Debate
- Topic: Carbon via .....
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5868
Re: Carbon via .....
Biochar does indeed have the viability to store carbon for a long time, but there are some impediments to its large scale applicability. One problem is the research. CSIRO's own research team have been doing trials of applying inert, inactivated biochar 2 tonnes to the hectare. The resulting nitroge...
- Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:29 am
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: NSF is working in WA
- Replies: 142
- Views: 183496
Re: NSF is working in WA
G'day Kilbilla Farm, Ian's work is a fantastic example of the Australian spirit of farming isn't it. There is something in the earth here that creates invetion. Maybe its necessity thats the mother of all inventions. The James' property suffered a very unfortunate case of GM contamination this year,...
- Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:50 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: Eucalypts.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8312
Re: Eucalypts.
G'day, Yes you will need to do a bit of chainsaw intervention to knock back succession and try and give other plants a chance. Its a really good opportunity for silviculture too, leaving your best trees free to grow on and gain diameter for later harvest and will not doubt create pockets for diversi...
- Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:25 pm
- Forum: Information for the Day
- Topic: Feedback & PHOTOS by participants at 1st training program
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8101
Re: Feedback & PHOTOS by participants at 1st training progra
Looks like this was built with a bucket or something similar. I saw one of these ditches, I think thats the right terminology, on a farm Peter had designed and made with a grader. She said he took two runs to create the channel then a backcut underneath the mound similar to what he talks about in hi...
- Mon May 21, 2012 9:03 am
- Forum: Your experiences with other theories and practices
- Topic: Trees are killing our Koalas
- Replies: 13
- Views: 23018
Re: Trees are killing our Koalas
Are you saying all Harry did was chop down trees along the river bank and voila....?
A different, and I think an ecologically sound appraisal can be found on the thread viewtopic.php?f=12&t=863&p=3695&hilit=flood#p3695
A different, and I think an ecologically sound appraisal can be found on the thread viewtopic.php?f=12&t=863&p=3695&hilit=flood#p3695
- Sun Aug 28, 2011 5:18 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: Burning: Resources lost
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7043
Re: Burning: Resources lost
G'day Heidi, The lantana you are burning is creating excellent soil properties on land that has been damaged by one means or another. Unfortunately both burning and chemicals will degenerate the work being done to the soil community and will only leave bare pateches to be invaded by other percieved ...
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:30 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: Allelopathy
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9606
Re: Allelopathy
Thats a good point you have made, Stringybark. It might not be as ideal as something else but it would work over time. Im just going to load it up with nitrogen fixing plants at the start and see how it goes. Ive just found out that natural farmer Mansanobu Fukuoka used something similar to reintrod...
- Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:32 pm
- Forum: All General Questions about NSF
- Topic: Allelopathy
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9606
Allelopathy
G'day, I understand that allelopathy is a way for a certain plant to compete with the surrounding ecosystem, to give it an advantage in the area. I am wondering if it known whether it is a chemical reaction that happens in live trees, or whether it continues when the plant is decomposing. What I am ...
- Thu Feb 24, 2011 5:27 pm
- Forum: Save Tarwyn Park from mining in the Bylong Valley
- Topic: The Gas Rush- Four Corners
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10836
Re: The Gas Rush- Four Corners
Totally agree Shirley. We have to raise the transparency of the issue and its procedures. We cant let what happened in America happen here. To: All Council General Managers and Planning Directors in NSW From: NSW Department of Planning Date: 23 February 2010 The NSW Government is inviting feedback f...
- Tue Feb 22, 2011 5:17 pm
- Forum: Save Tarwyn Park from mining in the Bylong Valley
- Topic: The Gas Rush- Four Corners
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10836
The Gas Rush- Four Corners
Coal Seam Gas Drilling was on the ABC last night. http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/special_eds/20110221/gas/default.htm http://suggest.getup.org.au/forums/60819-campaign-ideas/suggestions/1067867-stop-coal-seam-gas-in-farm-land-until-all-environm?ref=title is a way to help fund an awareness program if...
- Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:14 am
- Forum: Information for the Day
- Topic: Enemy invaders or rare new species?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5677
Enemy invaders or rare new species?
INTRODUCED plant species are becoming stronger, more versatile invaders by rapidly evolving to suit Australia's harsh climate, research has found. Sydney scientists studied more than 20 introduced species and found that 70 per cent had changed significantly in less than 100 years. The silver lining ...
- Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:54 pm
- Forum: Information for the Day
- Topic: NSF Introductory Course Launched
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12187
Re: NSF Introductory Course Launched
I look forward to it Duane, 8 days seems more extensive rather than 1 day. And on the ground learning would be very beneficial.