Alps as seen from Victoria Park (Port Hills): you can clearly see the snowy tops. What a beautiful day for a walk in the Port Hills! A lot of people thought the same: plenty of walkers, runners and bicycle riders enjoying the sunny, windless and dry conditions. #christchurch #nz #photo #photography #alps #PortHills
#NZGeographic has a story featuring Tim Curran from #LincolnUniversityNZ who studies plant flammability & green firebreaks.
"the Port Hills are stacked with species that are on the highly-flammable end of Curran’s plant-barbecuing tests—but this may change. On the third day of the fire, Christchurch mayor Phil Mauger told RNZ that there needed to be “a wider community conversation” about whether pine forestry was still a sensible use of the land."
https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/how-plants-can-help-fight-fires-or-spread-them/
And here's the same view of Marley's Hill in the Port Hills, Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, the year after the 2017 Port Hills fire, when the dead trees had been clear away.
Here's the same view of Marley's Hill in the Port Hills, Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, after the 2017 Port Hills fire had been put out (19 Feb. 2017).
Here's Marley's Hill in the Port Hills of Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, as seen from our house. The photo of it on fire is this morning, the other I took on Saturday.
I've been taking photos of this view every fortnight from our deck, watching how the hill has been recovering from the 2017 Port Hills fire. The clock has just been reset.
See Flickr for the full-res photos if you want to zoom in.
On the one-year anniversary of Cyclone Gabrielle taking lives and livelihoods across the North Island, raging fires now threaten homes and lives in Christchurch’s Port Hills.
This is what the Climate Crisis looks like and the Luxon Government’s actions will make it worse.
Bush fire in Port Hills, near Christchurch.
-local state of emergency declared
-All residents of Worlseys Road, Early Valley, Worsleys Spur have been urged to evacuate
-Evacuation centres at Halswell Library and Community Centre, and Lincoln Community Centre.
-stay away, do NOT fly drones
-not contained, > 100 hectares so far.
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