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I learned all about salinity and it's effects on our land in school in the 90s, it was a very big issue to us even then. The cause for us at the time was defore

by ehnto 5y ago

I learned all about salinity and it's effects on our land in school in the 90s, it was a very big issue to us even then. The cause for us at the time was deforestation over the decades. I welcome anyone to jump on to Google Maps and take a wander across the Australian coastal areas, then wander inland. Marvel at just how much land was cleared for agriculture. It's a patchwork quilt of farmland. We only have 25 million people, so to have cleared so much land is truly saddening. We cleared land we couldn't even farm. Clearing the land was our first order of business when settlers arrived. The good news is there are numerous national parks, growing every year, and revegetation is something we are doing a lot of. Let's hope it's not too little too late.

WalterBright 5y ago
If I was President, I'd double the size of the national parks, connect them with wildlife corridors, and make national parks out of several marine offshore environments. Of course, I'd never be elected!
- ehnto 5y ago
  My city did at least one of those last year! There is some hope. There is a national park corridor that cuts from the mountains, right through suburbia, and down to the coast. It was disparate nature reserves that are now connected into a fully fledged national park thanks to some land purchases. Not a little sliver between the highways either, pretty decent size land portions!
  - WalterBright 5y ago
    Ah, marvelous!
meristohm 5y ago
In the early 2000s an acquaintance told me about the time they joined as spectator a crew who were dragging down a forest with a massive chain between two huge tracked vehicles. The downed trees were then burned. Is this still practiced? Edit: this was in Australia
- ehnto 5y ago
  That or dozers are still used but I am not sure what happens to the downed trees now. They used to use big horses and the chains which is how we cleared so much land even before industrialisation.

by ehnto 5y ago

WalterBright 5y ago

If I was President, I'd double the size of the national parks, connect them with wildlife corridors, and make national parks out of several marine offshore environments. Of course, I'd never be elected!

ehnto 5y ago
My city did at least one of those last year! There is some hope. There is a national park corridor that cuts from the mountains, right through suburbia, and down to the coast. It was disparate nature reserves that are now connected into a fully fledged national park thanks to some land purchases. Not a little sliver between the highways either, pretty decent size land portions!
- WalterBright 5y ago
  Ah, marvelous!

meristohm 5y ago

In the early 2000s an acquaintance told me about the time they joined as spectator a crew who were dragging down a forest with a massive chain between two huge tracked vehicles. The downed trees were then burned. Is this still practiced? Edit: this was in Australia

ehnto 5y ago
That or dozers are still used but I am not sure what happens to the downed trees now. They used to use big horses and the chains which is how we cleared so much land even before industrialisation.