Bee Dawson Quotes

When possums were introduced in 1837 to start a fur industry, no one predicted that these Australian neighbours would naturalize with destructive enthusiasm, wreaking havoc on gardens and bush alike.
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Expansion Garden Years
Not all introductions worked well. Rabbits were an unmitigated environmental disaster. Unchecked by any natural predator, they bred at a staggering rate and chewed their way across vast areas of pastureland as well as any garden that came their way.
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Bird Garden Numbers
Maize and pumpkin seeds were soaked in water for several days and then blackened with tar before planting – the most effective way to deter rats, mice and birds.
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Bird Maize Mice Plan
Attempts to control them by introducing ferrets, weasels and stoats did much more harm than good. Although these predators probably killed a reasonable number of rabbits, they also devastated populations of kiwi and raided the nests of flighted birds.
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Attempt Control Population Reasonable Weast
For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine… (One settler wrote), “Strawberries were now so plentiful that… I made 287 lbs of jam…”
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Garden Jam Made
Even where the land was more receptive, settlers soon learned to take some precautions before planting their vegetables.
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Land Vegetables Water
Up to 20 million possums a year were killed during the height of the fur trade, but this barely checked their rapid expansion.
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Expansion Height Million Rapid Twenty

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