... means burning off has started.
With the abundance of grass that followed our wet summer now frosted and dead, farmers are anxious to burn off the excess fuel while it is still cool. The chance for an early burn came with falls of 40-70 mm of rain over the weekend. Now today many are "dropping a match" to help prevent a disaster later in the season when it might not be so easy to contain bushfires.
Oh - how interesting - I was thinking it sounded a bit dangerous but now I understand the reasoning. They'e banned 'stubble burning' in fields here - I'm not sure why but I think the benefits (killing pests and diseases) were not really proven whereas the environmental damage was, but we generally don't have worries about summer fires.
That is so interesting! When I was at a writer's retreat at the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Illinois, they burned the prairie behind the house and I could not believe the scorched earth site of it.
Love this shot & yes the burnoff is so important now. Here in Darwin burnoff was between May & July ending only recently with the wet not too long now.
August 30th, 2011
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