Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Yeah, it's bad .. gee, your stats are awful .. so many deaths by flooding, abt 200 a year! The vehicle death share number sends a real strong message.

I heard one fellow on radio wonder if all the land clearance in Queensland could have contributed to the extent of the floods ..

Hydrological ..

The water cycle is also affected by deforestation. Trees extract groundwater through their roots and release it into the atmosphere. When part of a forest is removed, the trees no longer evaporate away this water, resulting in a much drier climate. Deforestation reduces the content of water in the soil and groundwater as well as atmospheric moisture. Deforestation reduces soil cohesion, so that erosion, flooding and landslides ensue. Forests enhance the recharge of aquifers in some locales, however, forests are a major source of aquifer depletion on most locales. .. much more .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation

Landowner fined $110K over land clearing
By Mitch Grayson and Paul Robinson
Posted Tue Nov 9, 2010 9:41am AEDT

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A central Queensland man has been fined $110,000 for illegal land clearing in the biggest fine handed down for clearing remnant regrowth.

Reginald Edward Draper, 42, of Dingo, west of Rockhampton, pleaded
guilty in the Rockhampton Magistrates Court yesterday.

Draper paid a contractor to clear more than 250 hectares of brigalow on his property.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/11/09/3061048.htm

Heaps of videos inside. .. chuckle .. F6, thanks ..