permaculture

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Re browser deficit - adam wrote:
> I know that Indians here in the States used to set
>fires to clear the understory, causing sudden growth of small seedlings,
>which attracted deer for the Indians to hunt.  
Same with the Aboriginals in Australia (except they were attracting 
kangaroos etc) - Tim Flannery (The Future Eaters) suggests the fire-stick 
culture came about because the megafauna had been wiped out (e.g. grass 
eating wombats the size of rhinos) - easy prey for early Aboriginal 
hunters. He also attributes this practice of using fire for cultivation 
and managing the environment to the development of the fire ecology of 
today as only fire tolerant & resistant species survive and fire 
sensitive (and often retarding) species get wiped out so you have a more 
combustable environment and more (bigger) fires.....

I've a lot of thoughts about fire and cool-burning practice but no time 
to elaborate just now.
Robyn