Heavy response to Fire Operations Plan

A DSE forum on the draft North West Region Fire Operations Plan has been postponed from mid September to early October to allow DSE to process the exceptionally heavy response to the plan: more than 200 submissions have been received, more than three times that received last year.

This degree of public interest in the Plan is on the face of it good news. Not so good news is that participants at the meeting will not be supplied with information requested by environment groups regarding fire history, monitoring, and effects of management burns. We will report on the meeting in due course.