Farming
families surrounding Canberra’s dingo filled water catchment to deliver the no graze water catchment policies were pretty excited to see Jon Stanhope and David Lindenmayer have finished their wildlife pen at Mulligan’s Flat. (11.6.09 Canberra Times) 484 hectare, 11.5 kilometres of fence for $1.3M, 1.8m high mesh dug into the ground, floppy top and electrified wire and surveillance, 2000 tonnes of imported firewood from someone else’s bush habitat.
Hopefully some relocated kangaroos displaced from Namadgi by packs of “dingo hybrids the best genetics Mr Stanhope could get”.
Kangaroo from Belconnen or defence department land. Animals such as Lucky the koala’s mates burnt out of Namadgi in the 2003 holocaust.
Chronically dingo affected farmers surrounding the Canberra national park are looking forward to the fencing of this facility next, with predator proof fence. Keeping the blighters in their collapsing deprived ecology!
Solar hot wire, dug in, floppy top sounds very good for containing dingo, foxes, pigs, escaping kangaroo, flammable scrub. Telling the Snowy Brumbies where the ACT border is or they will be shot and carried out by helicopter if they proceed.\r\n\r\nA price tag for
the fancy fence of about $30M when ACT water saves over $100M annually for “co-services” including harbouring dingo to maintain the no graze policies, 10+ tonne per hectare flammable dead ground cover to produce quality water requiring limited treatment costs. $100M annual savings and ACTEWAGL profits for decades there surely would be some money for a good fence around the dingo packs.
Surrounding farmers are growing more impatient with the hypocrisy of government on issues of biodiversity salvation and environment. Livestock and wildlife are massacred on their farms by a constant invasion of killer city water filter guard dogs.
Farmer’s resources soaked up manning the defacto “virtual fence” subsidising cheap city water for decades mustering mongrel bred exotic dingoes as they disperse across the nation.
After the massive fires in Victoria this year a $50 million aeroplane (Boeing 747) capable of dropping 90 000 litres of fire retardant or water at 965 kilometres an hour is being investigated! Elvis air cranes can only take 9500 litres!
Some people still don’t get it do they, more fuel, bigger guns to make more fuel and bigger fires eventually at what cost!
Where are we going to get the water or retardant for Elvis much less a Boeing 747 working off a high country airstrip! Or a smoke laden city strip? Fire fighting with Elvis cost the Australian tax payer $11M per day with the Victorian fires.
Barefooted children with matches or herds of 3 tonne wombats would achieve more for the security of Australia’s biodiversity water and community safety than just one Boeing 747 mothballed by good informed land management.
Just imagine a Boeing 747 with 90 tonne a pay load of 1080 dingo and fox baits Melbourne to Brisbane being the first step to restore a managed grazed green open forest biodiverse, fire safe vegetation, attractive to rain clouds and allowing regular run off! Then we would not need the fire fighter “Evergreen” supertanker!
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SOS-NEWS contributing farmer and scientist Noeline Franklin has put her hat in the ring nominating for director on the board of the Tablelands District newly formed LIVESTOCK HEALTH AND PEST AUTHORITIES (LHPA).
Farmers in NSW are still feeding ACT Mayor, Jon Stanhope’s cheap water filter guard dogs and pest animal controllers in the Namadgi National Park. 
Farming adjacent to a National Park or Forest is now becoming a non-viable project to run sheep, cattle or goats. Hiding behind their carefully constructed legislation, government are not responsible for the slaughter of farmers stock as neither they are required to eradicate their wild dogs.
