Facts about fire

• The document linked here has many points about prescribed burning you can use in talking to Members of Parliament and your friends and colleagues and in letters to the editor.
• Read Icons to Ashes – FabWA and Denmark Environment Centre’s alarming findings about the effects of prescribed burning in the Walpole Wilderness Area.
• Read a submission the SFDF made to the Threatened Species Scientific Committee entitled ‘Fire regimes that cause biodiversity decline’ as a Key Threatening Process (KTP) here.
• Science and prescribed burning in Western Australia reference listing here.
• THE FIRST OF SEVERAL SHORT FACTS ABOUT FIRE IN FORESTS
  In most bioregions, prescribed burning is likely to have very little effect on subsequent extent of unplanned fire, and large areas of treatment are required to substantially reduce the area burned by unplanned fire.
  Read the details here.

Mt Lindesay National Park, Denbarker prescribed burn Nov 2019 – photo by R D’Souza