An outback landholder maintains fire breaks on Crown land herself amid the NT government's challenges finding contractors to do the work, as concerns are raised that 'inaction' on contentious buffel grass threatens to put 'lives at risk'.
Central Australia's bushfire season has been extended due to high fuel loads.abc.net.au/news/labour-shortage-bites-in-extended-fire-season-central-australia/102039400Landholders in the rural area of Alice Springs are concerned about what they say is a lack of communication by the Northern Territory government over firebreak management on Crown land.
"The areas that have already been burnt from Undoolya in June, all the way through up to the wet microburst, has actually regrown." It may transform the arid zone into a green sea, but buffel grass does pose a serious bushfire threat. "We used our equipment again and cut the breaks. So that's the third time in probably six or seven months that we've cut those breaks."Government 'inaction'
"We know a weed declaration then initiates weed management plans, which will put a greater focus on fire mitigation opportunities.Mr Vaughan said a good example was how the NT government had controlled gamba grass in the savanna and grassland regions of northern Australia.
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