{"id":4723,"date":"2020-06-09T06:53:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T06:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mli.org.au\/?p=4723"},"modified":"2022-11-02T03:31:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T03:31:17","slug":"after-fire-comes-recovery-life-in-a-farm-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/after-fire-comes-recovery-life-in-a-farm-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"After fire comes recovery: Life in a farm dam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In January 2020, much of Batlow and surrounding areas were badly burnt. This included the farm of David Waters, our Local Landcare Coordinator for Bidgee South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heavy rain followed on the bare, burnt earth, and Dave was worried that his dam &#8211; and the family of platypus that lived there &#8211; would suffer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the vegetation around the dam helped protect it from erosion and sediment, so it is once again a refuge for wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch this remarkable story unfold in the video produced by the ANU <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Sustainable Farms (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainablefarms.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainable Farms<\/a> team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-facebook wp-block-embed-facebook\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SustainableFarmsAU\/videos\/2483348481995965\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2020, much of Batlow and surrounding areas were badly burnt. This included the farm of David Waters, our Local Landcare Coordinator for Bidgee South. Heavy rain followed on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","iawp_total_views":36,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[138,327],"class_list":["post-4723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bushfire","tag-video","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6812,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions\/6812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}