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Our fourth sample is the High Velocity walker. This specimen is generally husky, lusty and male and can speed from, say, Katoomba to Kanangra River non-stop crushing everything before it with tank-like certainty. However, he never stops walking until night when he is completely exhatsted and is, therefore, unfortunately "not dangerous" | Our fourth sample is the High Velocity walker. This specimen is generally husky, lusty and male and can speed from, say, Katoomba to Kanangra River non-stop crushing everything before it with tank-like certainty. However, he never stops walking until night when he is completely exhatsted and is, therefore, unfortunately "not dangerous" | ||
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- | 11. | + | ===== Conservation. ===== |
- | . . CONSERVATION | + | |
- | CII) How Bush Fires Destroy our Timber Resources. | + | === (II) How Bush Fires Destroy our Timber Resources. |
by Abores Australis. | by Abores Australis. | ||
- | We all know that bushfires destroy | + | |
- | Yet from a timber point of view they might just as well not be th)re. 7hy? | + | We all know that bushfires destroy |
- | The reason is pertly | + | |
- | work. The callitris or white pine is an exception to this rule that knots render a timber useless. But this is a soft wood. Most of our timbers. are hard woods. But even a soft wood is more valuable without knots. Those lovely little tufts of young shoots, which spring out of the trunk of the tree after the bush fire has passed over, have sealed the doom of the tree from a timber point of view and it would be better not there. | + | Yet from a timber point of view they might just as well not be there. Why? |
- | It may be objected that pinus insignis, or common pines used for box making, grow with branches right from their feet. The answer is that the | + | |
- | lower branches are carefully cut off by the forester as the tree grows upward. In the centre there is always the remains of the knot where the br nch for- | + | The reason is partly |
- | merly grew, but the outside timber is fresh, clean and free from knots. Also | + | |
- | this, too, is a soft wood. | + | It may be objected that pinus insignis, or common pines used for box making, grow with branches right from their feet. The answer is that the lower branches are carefully cut off by the forester as the tree grows upward. In the centre there is always the remains of the knot where the branch formerly |
- | The cl., | + | |
- | However, although the regrowth caused by a bushfire is welcome to the | + | The destruction |
- | forester, it is small consolation to have lost thousands of trees which have grown for anything up to a hundred years and get in retc rn young seedlings which have a hundred years leeway to make up. So bush fires remain the nightmare of the forester and kee-o him chained to his post during the suyIner | + | |
- | (Next month "How the danger of Forest | + | However, although the regrowth caused by a bushfire is welcome to the forester, it is small consolation to have lost thousands of trees which have grown for anything up to a hundred years and get in retern |
- | 12. | + | |
- | FEDERATION NOTES | + | (Next month - "How the danger of Forest |
- | At the Federation' | + | |
- | eat many thousands of:trout from the streams of this sanctuary and the local | + | ---- |
- | residents have an annual | + | |
- | This fisherman said that his -Association is very keen on conservationlbut | + | =====Federation Notes. ===== |
- | believes that if all shooting in the Kosciusko Alpine Reserve were prohibited | + | |
- | the cormorants, foxes and dingoes would breed there and prey upon the sheep and wild life of the surrounding | + | At the Federation' |
- | Federation decided that a recommendation should be made to the authorities | + | |
- | for permits to shoot foxes, dingoes and cormorants to be issued only to local residents | + | This fisherman said that his Association is very keen on conservation, |
- | OOO OO | + | |
- | The report of the Tracks and Blazes Committee | + | Federation decided that a recommendation should be made to the authorities for permits to shoot foxes, dingoes and cormorants to be issued only to local residents |
- | publication in this issue as the C.M.W' | + | |
- | able. Arrangements have been made for further information to be received by that Club so its members can consider the matter further. | + | ---- |
- | At the 7orki4g | + | |
- | V a' | + | The report of the Tracks and Blazes Committee |
- | A letter was received-from the Under Secretary. for Lands advising that, | + | |
- | owing to shortage of staff, it is impossible at present to do any field sur- | + | ---- |
- | veying | + | |
- | -.: | + | At the Working |
- | ....-:,:::-.:-.:: .j t..3:.,i--.- ':' | + | |
- | .' | + | ---- |
- | ';:t1..L.: | + | |
- | .:c..,,i 7 ..,:.-., ..: | + | A letter was received from the Under Secretary for Lands advising that, owing to shortage of staff, it is impossible at present to do any field surveying |
- | , . : 1. | + | |
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- | 0 SCORPIO | + | |
- | by Canous. | + | ===== Scorpio. ===== |
- | If, in the early evening you follow the Milky ITay down towards the Eastern horizon for about two-thirds of the distance | + | |
- | brilliant star in the oon stellatioil | + | by Canopus. |
- | thd of Arttai4e ret chi: | + | |
- | 'Antares | + | If, in the early evening you follow the Milky Way down towards the Eastern horizon for about two-thirds of the distance |
- | 500 -itimes | + | |
- | it rrvals | + | Antares |
- | ;tO - The | + | |
- | Gre...ks believed that pt | + | The likeness of the constellation to a scorpion is obvious. The Greeks |
- | ij*.61se.; | + | |
- | - ,. the hori' | + | " |
- | , | + | |
- | the harS' | + | __Acknowledgment__: " |
- | his crathe: | + | |
- | - - .' | + | |
- | :r | + | |
- | Acknowledgment | + | |
"An Easy Guide to Southern Stars," | "An Easy Guide to Southern Stars," | ||
- | "Stars of the Southern Heavens," | + | |
- | 7K, | + | "Stars of the Southern Heavens," |
- | TI4At R14 Ci't, C1 0 uo nThvkE, | + | |
- | 0 v ci-.A, | + | "The Stars in Their Courses," |
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- | _____,..... .:;, | + | |
- | .,.._... ,_ . | + | |
- | 4:,, | + | |
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- | 14. | + | |
VI HAT DO YOU THINK ? | VI HAT DO YOU THINK ? | ||
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