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 …
Prescribed Burning UncategorisedScale Changes…Principles Don’t!
Prescribed Burning UncategorisedPrescribed Burning – The Facts
Prescribed Burning…….Planned Burning…….Fuel Reduction Burning… Whatever you call it, here are the facts!
Front Page Letters Prescribed BurningLetter from Minister Dawson re: Prescribed Burning 
Dear Mr Underwood Officers from the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions andDepartment of Fire and Emergency Services have reviewed the Zylstra etal. (2022) paperand consider that the data does …
Front Page Prescribed BurningCultural Burning
The concept of “cultural burning” is attracting a great deal of interest these days. We understand the term to mean the burning of the bush in the manner of Aboriginal …
Front Page Prescribed BurningZounds Professor Zylstra
The expression of truth is simplicity. Seneca the Younger 4BC-65AD The late Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was a well known fiction writer, one of his books being ‘Lord of …
Front Page Prescribed BurningOne year on…Wandoo forest aerial burn
In March 2021 I was on a field trip into the wandoo forest of the Helena catchment, when I came across Parks and Wildlife staff just commencing an aerial burn. …
Jarrahdale dodges a wildfire bullet
In summer 2007, I planned and supervised the establishment of a research thinning trial in regrowth jarrah (E.marginata) forest about 15 km east of the Western Australian town of Jarrahdale. …
Front Page Prescribed BurningHistorical Letters on Fire
Four More Historical Letters on Fire ‘History is philosophy from examples.’ – Dionysius of Halicarnassus, circa 30 BC In south-west Australia, over the past few decades, there has been both constructive …
Front Page Prescribed BurningThe Truth About Fuel Reduction Burning
In the aftermath of the disastrous 2019/2020 fire season in the Eastern States there have been many examples in the media of personnel associated with State fire suppression agencies, as …
Front Page Prescribed BurningEffectiveness of Prescribed Burning
Example of effectiveness of a prescribed burning programme in controlling major forest fires—the 2005 Perth Hills fire by Rick Sneeuwjagt An outstanding example of the contribution of fuel reduction burning …