False Perceptions/Misinformation

Logging Makes Forest Fires Worse Experts

Logging Makes Forest Fires Worse Experts

16 January 2020 – Dominica Sanda  | Canberra Times

“Australian National University Professor David Lindenmayer says while the main driver of fires is the climate, logging makes forests drier and leaves behind flammable debris on the ground.

“Forests that have been logged and regenerated are significantly more likely to burn at higher severity,” …

Hazard Reduction Burns Are Not A Panacea For Bushfire Risk RFS Boss Says 

Hazard Reduction Burns Are Not A Panacea For Bushfire Risk RFS Boss Says
8 January 2020 – The Guardian (AAP)

The boss of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service says hazard reduction is important but not a panacea for bushfire risk and has “very little effect at all” on the spread of fire in severe or extreme …

Are Hazard Reduction Burns Effective In Managing Bushfires? The Answer Is Complicated

Are Hazard Reduction Burns Effective In Managing Bushfires? The Answer Is Complicated
20 Dec 2019 – ABC News – RMIT ABC Fact Check

Frequent Fire Makes The Bush More Likely To Burn UOW Study Finds

Frequent Fire Makes The Bush More Likely To Burn UOW Study Finds

7 August 2018 – Kate McIlwain  |  Illawarra Mercury

New research out of the University of Wollongong has revealed that, in the study area of the Australian Alps, fire has made the bush more likely to burn.

And while Dr Philip Zylstra says his findings don’t mean …

We Have Still Not Lived Long Enough

We Have Still Not Lived Long Enough

16 February 2009 – Tom Griffiths  |  Inside Story
(This essay won the Alfred Deakin Prize in the 2009 Victorian Premiers Literary Awards.)

Excerpts:
“They had not lived long enough were the words that Judge Leonard Stretton used to describe the people who lived and worked in the forests of …