It’s always the same anecdote.

I’m sorry that you have to deal with Bradford Pear. It’s something we don’t deal with because we live in a different climate.

No, I’m 99.9% native work. Always have been.

But we use one tool in the sub and tropics that is beyond anything else and hasn’t “escaped” in 80 years of use.

Because it’s my job.

Why?

There are sterile exotics that work that are exceptional at this job, much better than natives.

Stop being so black and white.

A raised garden bed won’t prevent the rhizomes from travelling, unless the bed is permanently sealed where it contacts, or near contacts, the ground. Remember that plastic can crack, split, and deform, concrete can crack also.

If you know a plant is invasive and difficult to control at the best of times (unlike an invasive that can have seeds removed or similar), then have a long think about it. It’s like playing catch with a live hand grenade; the safest way is not to play. Clumping bamboo is the only choice if your climate permits it.

For me, on choosing what to plant, I would first consider that benefits me (food, flower, aesthetic, biomass) and that can be endemic, native, or exotic. If nothing suits that has a value, I would then choose a diverse small planting in endemic species to and around your area (also consider recommendations from climate scientists if you area will get warmer/colder/wetter/drier and select some species suited to that change).

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/c/bazzite/5

Discussion forum for the readers.

Yes they do!

Ohhhh, you were talking about YOUR “Wood Duck” and I likely live in another country and our “Wood Duck” is different. Wondered why the photo was off; “this person doesn’t even know what a Australian Wood Duck looks like, what a flaming galah”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhoD-onynlI

Yes mate, we always get our clean fill from “garden stores”.

https://lemm.ee/post/33335568

Asbestos now found in sold soil. Whoops.

We couldn’t have seen this coming. Even one of the comments said it was just mulch.

https://aussie.zone/post/7191551

There is no reason not to use Syncthing besides KDEConnect has features other than sharing files that might come in handy.

Syncthing is a much better tool for a hands-off approach once set up so sure, why not?

The Windows version used to be shit. That’s no longer a problem. That’s about the only negative I remember. Otherwise you can have it doing a lot of work between devices or only sending when you feel like it. I force stop it on my phone and then invoke through share when needed.

I brought up Syncthing as it will function the same way, in a more hands off way (by choice if you want, automagically or forced) if you needed to share files/folders between devices. Not only for passwords.

Local file sharing:

I use KDEConnect on all my devices (Windows, Linux, GrapheneOS, Work Galaxy Tab) and it works just fine. Never needed to try anything else.

Syncthing as well for keepass files.

Pinch Mini and Punch Bug. 2 for old school, one for new.

Neighbours injected “Spotto”, a punch for a yellow car.

And that was it. No rules about arguing or how hard you hit, no holds barred in the back seat.

I’m just trying to work out where the Sunshine Coast one is. Most of the sites are down.

https://vimeo.com/836414800 - promotional video

Still happening to this day but thanks to modern machinery only a few now fight it. The rest of us can ignore the battle to our detriment.

We had local farmer spray out 7km of riparian zone in 2 weeks for the cows. I’ve busted my butt for 2 years to plant up 3000 plants in 2400m2 (60m long) upstream from there. Nothing is fair.

It was a light joke but thank you. I thought it was obvious.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.13041- Identifying and managing disturbance-stimulated flammability in woody ecosystems

This is where the quotes are from.

It turns some on its head so people will be very resistant to the change. The Rural Fire don’t appear to be interested, hazard reductions are key.

What I get from the study is that once you start, you can’t stop. Degraded systems (a big part of Aus) are also still at risk.

Lindenmayer et al. have published on this recently.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aec.13096 - What are the associations between thinning and fire severity?

https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.12766 - Does forest thinning reduce fire severity in Australian eucalypt forests?

And some choice quotes from other works:

Across all forests in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area in the Australian State of New South Wales, the probability of canopy scorch or crown burn remained high until 20 years post fire, but then declined to near zero by 30 years (Barker & Price, 2018).

The latter study also showed that the likelihood of canopy-damaging fires was related to the severity of the previous fire, so that one fire in disturbed forests set in motion an accelerating likelihood of future severe fires. Crown burn was most likely in dry sclerophyll forests of south-eastern Australia if they had been burned in the previous 5–15 years (Storey, Price & Tasker, 2016).

Whereas the forests and woodlands discussed above exhibited an initial brief reduction in flammability that preceded a more flammable regrowth period caused by the disturbance, this pattern was not detectable on an annual scale in an analysis of fire trends in Kakadu National Park in the Australian tropics. Flammability decreased linearly from the first year, reaching a near-zero likelihood of wildfire in all communities by 15 years (Gill et al., 2000).

Analysis of long-term fire records for Southwest Australian eucalypt forests has confirmed these expectations, demonstrating that long-unburnt forests are 7.4 times less likely to burn than forests still recovering from fire (Zylstra et al., 2022).

A mechanistic analysis of red tingle (Eucalyptus jacksonii) forest in south-western Australia, for example, demonstrated that mature forest facilitated more successful application of fire-suppression techniques than disturbed forests under the same weather conditions (Zylstra et al., 2023).

At a global scale, the predominance of young forest may represent a major challenge in fire management. For instance, McDowell et al. (2020) reported that the percentage of young forest stands (< 140 years old) has increased from 11.3% in 1900 to 33.6% in 2015 of the total forest area at the global scale.

Anyone else hesitant to upvote a story about dead animals? I don’t feel like I’m helping.