Some people understandably worry that prescribed burning might be harmful to our animals, birds and plants. Decades of research and monitoring have clearly shown no species in our southwest forests …
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UncategorisedBelieving the Balga
Forty years ago, forestry scientist Dr David Ward started scratching away at the trunks of WA’s long-lived balga trees and made an amazing discovery. He found that the exposed black …
Prescribed Burning UncategorisedScale Changes…Principles Don’t!
Bushfire Front member Roger Underwood is a well known forester, historian and writer. He is also an expert in forest and woodland fire management. In this short piece Roger explains how …
ResourcesFire and Water
How Prescribed Burning Protects Our Water Supplies
ResourcesA Critique of the ‘Response Only’ Bushfire Strategy for Southwest WA
The BFF has become increasingly aware of a campaign by environmentalists and academics to constrain or shut down the prescribed burning program in southwest forests. They advocate that it be …
Front Page WA Bushfire History1978 Dwellingup Fire Story
Another great “good news story” from the annals of WA bushfire history! This is the account by Neville Brass and John Skillen of events at Dwellingup in 1978 when a potential …
Prescribed Burning UncategorisedPrescribed Burning – The Facts
Prescribed Burning…….Planned Burning…….Fuel Reduction Burning… Whatever you call it, here are the facts!
Landscape prescribed burning: a south west Australian perspective
A paper by Neil Burrows and Rick Sneeuwjagt
Front PageMedia Release
New research confirms value of fuel reduction burning in karri forests Peer-reviewed research published in the Australian Forestry journal has confirmed something that forest firefighters have long known: if forests …
GREAT NEWS!
There has been a lot of press from some people and groups critical of DBCA’s prescribed burning practices. They’ve been pushing for a review or enquiry. But late last week a …