Environment: National parks are an unacceptable fire risk*

The horrific bushfires in NSW in December and January were aggravated by environmental groups’ veto over logging and hazard reduction burning says Tom Brabin, who worked for many years as a professional forester.I borrowed this headline from an article in a recent issue of a Melbourne daily, written by a perceptive writer. In 1998, I wrote an article in News Weekly about parks and fire, which apart from exposing the lack of control of feral weeds and fauna, found from a survey by Lyndall Bull, t…

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