I remember during one of my visits down to Oz how a good majority of their open fields were these expanses of dead grass that they can't mow because the roots are holding the earth together. the trees had blackened bases (they sort of looked like they'd been wet for a while) and I asked what that was about and my in-laws told me they'd been on fire, and that blew me away. fire's rarely a good thing, and down there is just grows ceaselessly once it's started. it's bananas.

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