Friday, April 10, 2009

Scorched Earth Policy

When will we learn...?
Breaks my heart to think that people still believe clearing the land is an option.
These trees are all that remain...but for how long?
How can a bare paddock be more profitable than the majesty of the natural bush?

I grew up on a farm that had been ravaged by clearing -
my father was one of hundreds of farmers who were forced to clear a large percentage of the land as part of the Government's conditional purchase policy.
He spent twenty years replanting trees to combat salinity as a result of clearing the natural vegetation.

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