Rivers etc

[jon lopgel]

More likely plant difference.

I suspect bark eating here is Winter months

And its not just eucs either, most of the shrubs arent eucs.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Yes, it did. The evidence is all there. Go and find it.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Its clear that Lopgel is simply another person from whom the truth is whatever his ideology states it is, and evidence to the contrary is simply 'uninformed opinion'.

He isn't worth arguing with.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Ah. Proof by assertion.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Something has made a mess of my newly planted Osmanthus bush.

At about rabbit height.

[The Natural Philosopher]

It happens here all the time although deer are just as much of a nuisance

[The Natural Philosopher]

That isn't what was said. The claim was that dredging raised the river level, not the bank level.

[Chris Hogg]

[jon lopgel]

No it did not in the parts of Oz where the recent bushfires happened.

That sort of burning did happen and continues to happen in the tropics but that isnt where the recent bushfires happened,

And there continues to be extensive risk reduction burning by whites in the areas where the recent bushfires happened.

[jon lopgel]

How odd that you cant actually present a shred of evidence of any 'busily digging out the roots of native vegetation, and ring-barking shrubs.

Yep, you just attempt to bullshit and lie and fool no one.

[jon lopgel]

And the original claim by some ignorant pom half a world away, isnt ?

[jon lopgel]

Doesn't say anything about digging out the roots of native vegetation or ring barking shrubs either.

[jon lopgel]

It doesn?t here.

They arent here either.

[jon lopgel]

For some odd reason we don?t actually get many of those in graziers paddocks here.

[Tim Lamb]

Semantics? The raised banks *allow* greater flow rates?

[Tim Lamb]

Local estate management organised a *tree planting geographic barrier* around the inside of a 20 acre arable field here. (edge of village and enclosed by highway).

Rabbits and possibly Muntjac deer have destroyed some of the softwoods now the tree protectors have failed. Scots Pine seems immune.

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[Chris Hogg]

Try this then " In drought times rabbits climb trees to forage on the foliage and often ringbark trees in their search for moisture.

Rabbits are destroying many of our native plants. They eat seedlings and can kill 2.5 metre to 3.5 metre high shrubs by ring-barking them." From

Rabbit warrens will disturb tree roots, weaken the trees and cause them to die in drought conditions or simply blow over in strong winds. ICBA to look for rabbits digging out roots, but if your denial is anything like as wrong as your comment about them not ring barking shrubs, the there's almost certainly a reference out there.

[jon lopgel]

That's complete bullshit.

Ring barking isnt done to search for moisture.

In fact f*ck all do that.

Nothing like the original stupid claim.

[T i m]

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No it isn't, it's just Speed cowering behind another alias.

Cheers, T i m

[The Natural Philosopher]

No. its nothing to do with that. The deeper rivers allow greater flow rates. For the same river level

The purpose of dredging is NOT to raise river banks. It is to deepen rivers. Idiot