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Prospects dim for fossickers - The Age newspaper article.
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<blockquote data-quote="20x" data-source="post: 81787" data-attributes="member: 2569"><p>The effects of stingrays dredging the shallows of an eustary after a change in tide(flood) looks like some seriouse damage doesn't it...buts it not is it, it has a pourpose and that would be to create balance and or sustain the health of its ecosystem from its feeding behaviour.</p><p></p><p>are we doing the same thing without even knowing it?</p><p></p><p>I think questions like these NEED to be answered, studied and proven either way before judgement and the process of this would educate everyone both greens and prospectors as most of us are both. </p><p></p><p>the effects of my last dig outside a creek...</p><p></p><p>i removed the top soil and spread that layer by itself over the ground beside it, i then continued digging through different layers of clays and seprated them all in piles next to my hole. Very quickly the resident small birds were taking advantage of this and feeding on small organisms i had exposed. What surprised me was that although the clays appear lifelessly baron the birds were actually feeding from those piles to.</p><p></p><p>As clean water was a conciderable distance away and didn't provide the protection of their own habitat from maybe predatory airial assults, as soon as i turned my pump off and things went quiet all the little birds came in to bath in the cleanest settling pond that (I) had created.</p><p></p><p>it was a pretty kool experience and made me happy to think that what i was doing although looked destructive actually was having a positive effect on the nature i admire.</p><p></p><p>In 1 section of the gully i was working i noticed a small carnivorous shrew like rodent coming to and from that spot so i actually left that section alone.</p><p></p><p>i wonder what else is happening at night and what other creatures are taking advantage of my change in their landscape!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="20x, post: 81787, member: 2569"] The effects of stingrays dredging the shallows of an eustary after a change in tide(flood) looks like some seriouse damage doesn't it...buts it not is it, it has a pourpose and that would be to create balance and or sustain the health of its ecosystem from its feeding behaviour. are we doing the same thing without even knowing it? I think questions like these NEED to be answered, studied and proven either way before judgement and the process of this would educate everyone both greens and prospectors as most of us are both. the effects of my last dig outside a creek... i removed the top soil and spread that layer by itself over the ground beside it, i then continued digging through different layers of clays and seprated them all in piles next to my hole. Very quickly the resident small birds were taking advantage of this and feeding on small organisms i had exposed. What surprised me was that although the clays appear lifelessly baron the birds were actually feeding from those piles to. As clean water was a conciderable distance away and didn't provide the protection of their own habitat from maybe predatory airial assults, as soon as i turned my pump off and things went quiet all the little birds came in to bath in the cleanest settling pond that (I) had created. it was a pretty kool experience and made me happy to think that what i was doing although looked destructive actually was having a positive effect on the nature i admire. In 1 section of the gully i was working i noticed a small carnivorous shrew like rodent coming to and from that spot so i actually left that section alone. i wonder what else is happening at night and what other creatures are taking advantage of my change in their landscape! [/QUOTE]
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