Hazard Reduction/Prescribed Burning

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 …

Hazard Reduction Burning Is Not A Panacea To Bushfire Risk Expert

Hazard Reduction Burning Is Not A Panacea To Bushfire Risk Expert – Transcript
8 January 2020 ABC Radio, PM – Linda Motteram  interviews David Lindenmayer – Transcript

The New South Wales Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons was also on morning television, he’s stressed there are fewer chances to do hazard reduction burning these days, but adds it’s …

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 …

A Burning Issue Forest Fires Make More Fires

A Burning Issue Forest Fires Make More Fires 
7 August 2018 – Ecological Society of Australia

The most comprehensive analysis ever performed of fires in the Australian Alps has revealed that fire has made the forests more likely to burn. Frequent fire increases the risk of fire and of ecosystem collapse in mountain forests, which are highly vulnerable …

A Comparison Of Fuel Hazard In Recently Burned And Long Unburned Forests And Woodlands

A Comparison Of Fuel Hazard In Recently Burned And Long Unburned Forests And Woodlands

23 July 2018 – Kelly Dixon et al  |  CSIRO Publishing
Abstract

Fuel hazard is often assumed to increase with fuel age, or the time-since-fire. However, studies on fuel hazard in long-unburned forests are scarce. We measured overall fuel hazard in Eucalyptus forests and …

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 …