{"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>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>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>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>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\">\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v7.0\" nonce=\"0pNmUMWT\"><\/script><div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SustainableFarmsAU\/videos\/2483348481995965\/\" data-width=\"1200\"><blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SustainableFarmsAU\/videos\/2483348481995965\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SustainableFarmsAU\/videos\/2483348481995965\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">After fire comes recovery: Life in a farm dam<\/a><p>This farm near Batlow burnt badly in January 2020. Heavy rain followed on the bare, burnt earth, and farmer David Waters was worried that his dam &#8211; and the family of platypus that lived there &#8211; would suffer. But the vegetation around the dam helped protect it from erosion and sediment, so it is once again a refuge for wildlife ??<\/p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SustainableFarmsAU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sustainable Farms<\/a> on Monday, 1 June 2020<\/blockquote><\/div>\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 the bare, burnt earth, and Dave was worried that his dam &#8211; and the family of platypus that lived there &#8211; would suffer. But the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","iawp_total_views":5,"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","category-81","description-off"],"_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}]}}