BUSHFIRES: The deadly consequences of dismantling bushfire controls*

There is a basic mantra amongst the bushfire brotherhood: bushfires cannot be prevented, but bushfire damage can. Fires will always start. Our climate and human nature see to that.
But the unstoppable killer bushfire, just like the plague epidemic, is not inevitable; it is a product of mismanagement. Through good management the risks can be foreseen, foreshadowed and forestalled.



There was a period in the early days of Western Australian forest and bushfire history wh…

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