Posted by David Bamford on May 12, 2009 at 23:34:36 user David.
In Reply to: Re: Pigeon Post - fell fires posted by Rob Boden on May 11, 2009 at 20:49:05:
We have a certain amount of experience with unwanted wildfires here in Australia; rather more than we care for, actually. The big problem is not how much grass, bracken or heather there is, but how dry it is. When the Lake District has a decade of drought and a week of over 35 degrees C, then they'll have a problem. I can't see this happening any time soon. We accept dry, yellow grass, stony river beds and dried-out once-were-lakes as normal. My partner has just returned for a holiday in New Zealand, and couldn't get over the amount of water everywhere; rushing down rivers and filling lakes, not to mention falling out of the sky.
David.