COVER STORY: Old-growth forests and wildfires*

Old-growth forests and wildfiresThe appalling bushfires which have devastated Canberra, south east NSW, Tasmania and parts of Victoria over recent weeks have been aggravated by the policies of state governments which have locked up large areas of the country’s eucalypt forests from timber harvesting, and consistently failed to perform adequate fuel reduction burning, making them massive fire hazards.The bushfires which swept into the ACT in mid-January began in the adjacent national parks in sou…

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