WHILE fuel loads in National Parks have been blamed for kicking along some serious fires in recent months, a former ranger has detailed how a grazing program in Central Queensland took the heat out of a serious problem.
Neal Gathercole was the former ranger-in-charge for the Clermont area of the Qld Parks and Wildlife service and was part of the formation of a grazing program in the Nairana and Mazeppa National Parks and the Belmah Conservation area.
The parks were purchased in the early 1990s to preserve brigalow, blackwood and gidgee woodlands.
Mr Gathercole said fires were a regular…
