Ah Ha - I have been telling my partner that that is what the forestry companies should be doing with slash - chipping and grinding it down - since anniversary weekend floods and especially Gabrielle.

 

 

But I can hear the howls now, too inaccessible, too costly, not enough man power, not the right equipment etc.

 

 

They really mean not enough gumption and willingness to do what is hard and only thinking in short term cost and profit cycles. Well these disasters have cost billions of which a goodly proportion can be put down to all that slash destroying infrastructure.

 

 

End of rant!