Comments on: Toorale buyout an environmental disaster in the political making http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/11/toorale-buyout-an-environmental-disaster-in-the-political-making/ now with extra source Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:39:15 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Peter Whelan http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/11/toorale-buyout-an-environmental-disaster-in-the-political-making/#comment-17607 Peter Whelan Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-17607 If past experience of NSW Parks is anything to go by, Toorale will soon be over-run by wild pigs, goats, etc. What a great opportunity for hunters! I look forward to getting a few mates together and harvesting some free range goat, or a trophy boars head for my wall. If past experience of NSW Parks is anything to go by, Toorale will soon be over-run by wild pigs, goats, etc. What a great opportunity for hunters! I look forward to getting a few mates together and harvesting some free range goat, or a trophy boars head for my wall.

]]> By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/11/toorale-buyout-an-environmental-disaster-in-the-political-making/#comment-17608 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-17608 Pascoe - a better class of redneck, no doubt.<br /><br />Trouble for you is CSIRO's Dr Tom Hatton on PM tonight says basically, actually, essentially ...you're wrong. Quotes the benefits to all the wetlands down that river.<br /><br />Also your referencing of Ross Coulthard - or in this case tryhard - in a 2006 Sunday 9 feature is not nearly as convincing as you would like to think. For instance in the grip of drought they showed grasslass understorey around 'woody weeds' as proof they destroy native grasses and cause erosion ... in the grip of drought - never mentioned to those dumb city slicker viewers. <br /><br />Fact is that show was a National Party agri industry beat up. Woody weeds otherwise known as native species already in the seedbank - may or may not be out of balance in some areas - possibly due to climate changes as per observed changes to flora on the African savannah, but you never got a balanced report about the millions of hectares cleared for fast profits and ruined topsoil. The shame in fact of big agri industry for several decades - only 10% of whom supported Landcare. Pascoe - a better class of redneck, no doubt.

Trouble for you is CSIRO’s Dr Tom Hatton on PM tonight says basically, actually, essentially …you’re wrong. Quotes the benefits to all the wetlands down that river.

Also your referencing of Ross Coulthard - or in this case tryhard - in a 2006 Sunday 9 feature is not nearly as convincing as you would like to think. For instance in the grip of drought they showed grasslass understorey around ‘woody weeds’ as proof they destroy native grasses and cause erosion … in the grip of drought - never mentioned to those dumb city slicker viewers.

Fact is that show was a National Party agri industry beat up. Woody weeds otherwise known as native species already in the seedbank - may or may not be out of balance in some areas - possibly due to climate changes as per observed changes to flora on the African savannah, but you never got a balanced report about the millions of hectares cleared for fast profits and ruined topsoil. The shame in fact of big agri industry for several decades - only 10% of whom supported Landcare.

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