By Paul Homewood

h/t Dennis Ambler

It has surely now been established beyond any possible doubt the major role that poor fire hazard management has played in the severity of recent Australian bushfires, despite disinformation campaigns from the BBC/Guardian/Met Office.

Back in 2016, a Special Inquiry was held following the catastrophic Waroona bushfire, just south of Perth that year. Their report not only reemphasised the crucial role of controlled burning, but also gives an insight into the evolution of such practices in recent decades:

  https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/resources/bushfire-waroona-yarloop-fire-2016/

Below is the key segment of the report. [The data relates to Western Australia, and P&W refers to the Department of Parks and Wildlife].

The continuous decline in the area control burned since the 1960s is startling, and nothing less than criminally negligent in my view.

The report goes on to describe some of the history behind this:

This of course only relates to Western Australia. But can there be any doubt that similar factors also apply to the rest of the country?

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January 22, 2020 at 04:09PM