6 months old & feeding itself. Utterly magnificent. A true wonder of Australia. It may live to the year 2055. #PowerfulOwl.#birds

Tally for 1st month of 9 CPEs around a lamb paddock checked weekly. 39 foxes. All verified dead by a camera on each. He paid my bill in person. Then gave a box of Roses chocs. "So you keep us first young lady". ☺️.Another 2 months booked.

If you dont invest in auditing what you pay, for this is what you get. Contractors ripping off Victoria & building their empires on sustaining environmental degradation. We really need to sort this @VicRoads

I call it The Beckoning Tree. Est 150+ yr old Rough-Barked Mana gum. They're v. uncommon in Moyne Shire now. It's a paddock remnant from when Koroit was cleared from the forest.

RT @JCrooka: Genetic testing to determine source of fire ant nest at Tweed Heads via @ABCaustralia #FireAnts #Auspol.

Them: "We get the gorse treated annually. X does a terrific job of keeping it controlled". Me, standing in a patch of flowering gorse that's 3 years old - "do Specsavers have a branch in Portland". Then I wait. I'm "that woman" breaking holes in bullshit.

NZs champion fencer is 49. "I was competing against 21-year-olds, but experience is a big thing in fencing. Even in day-to-day fencing, experience is massive to whether you are efficient & productive on the job.”.

The Bessiebelle Panther is not stalking me. It's macropod toe claw prints. Truly. Panthers have 4 claws on the back feet btw 🙄

Feral cat poo 101. They don't bury it. It's a territory marker. Usually grey & polished. Finger lengths with fur, wool, feathers, teeth of prey & crushed bone sometimes seen. Carrier of toxoplasmosis & tapeworms. If able, bury it deep & set cat control near.

A new grandchild born this morning. All well. "Thursdays child is loving & giving" is a great way to start a life isn't it.

Back to my original question. Who benefits from a fire risk assessment of arterial roads across Victoria being done in 2025 ?. And how will the data be used to change how that risk is managed, as risk reducing tools (CFA/Fodder/weed control) have been gutted?.

Woody weed risk has gone up in past decade. Gorse, Broom, Buckthorn, Boxthorn, Pittosporum, Coast Wattle, Briars, Blackberry etc. What was treated annually is now not or only if "someone" complains.

Woody roadsides risk also varies with weather. Cold winter + cost of living crisis = a lot of firewood has & will be taken. There's no official monitoring of this. Unless community get court-worthy evidence there's no compliance done. There's no staff to do it.

Native grasses have a low fire risk but there's less native grasslands & volunteer CFA brigades are walking away from doing maintenance burning. After 5 years or so the non-grassy really rare plants start to disappear because of grass competition.

That change in the DoT permits on arterial roadsides for fodder & grazing has not been officially announced. It came into effect over 3yrs ago. Funding & staff cuts making it too hard to manage the old permit system. But don't tell anyone eh.

Fuel on arterial roadsides is grass or woody. Phalaris responds rapidly to weather, & lack of reduction, so it's risk varies. Lots of it. More now it's illegal to harvest it or graze it & they wont allow it to be cut for emergency fodder.

If fire risk is being assessed based on what is seen in this year, then ask yourself who. Who benefits from arterial road fire risk data being collected in 2025?. We will be told it's us. Dig deeper.

12+ years since last assessment. Why now?. Following a drought. Rural CFA brigades abandoned arterial roadside burning across the State. DoT made fodder harvest & grazing on arterial roads illegal. 6 years of low spend on regional arterial roadside weeds.

🧵 on fire risk & fire politics. New Vic Dept Transport tender for a contractor to:. "update the Victorian Arterial Road Bushfire & Grassfire Risk Assessment (2013) & maps to assess bushfire risk along Victorian roadsides.".

Idiot human GET UP Get UPPPP there's a cat, .A CAAAT outside. FFS. I read how other people get burglar/fire/medical emergency warnings from their pet cats. Not me. I get feral cat alerts. Guess he knows it matters.

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