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Fire Briefing

Posted on 24 February, 2012 by fobif

Radio National’s Background Briefing program ‘Fighting Fire with Fire’ [broadcast on February 19 and available for podcast here] was a very fair effort to canvass all points of view on fuel management issues. The fact that it seems to have … Continue reading →

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Weeds are for burning

Posted on 21 February, 2012 by fobif

In December we criticised DSE’s management of the Quartz Hill management burn [see ‘The uses of fire‘] on the grounds that the exercise failed to do anything about the prolific weeds in the area. FOBIF has now written to local … Continue reading →

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Does fire protect us from fire?

Posted on 20 January, 2012 by fobif

Calls for more ‘fuel reduction burns’ have been insistent for years, particularly since the Black Saturday fires which burned over 2,100 homes and killed 173 people. The pressure for more management burns culminated in the Royal Commission’s recommendation that at … Continue reading →

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The uses of fire

Posted on 17 December, 2011 by fobif

FOBIF has written to Parks Victoria to clarify some questions arising from the Quartz Hill, Chewton, Asset Protection management burn of a few weeks ago. What interested us was that the burn was pretty severe on native undergrowth [as was … Continue reading →

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How good is the new Code of Practice?

Posted on 6 December, 2011 by fobif

DSE’s new Code of Practice for Fire Management on Public Land has been out for consultation for some time now. The document can be found here. As we signalled in a previous post, we have had preliminary misgivings about the … Continue reading →

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Out of the ash

Posted on 4 December, 2011 by fobif

The asset protection burn conducted at Quartz Hill Chewton in late November has, as planned, produced a pretty bare landscape over about 140 hectares, plus what looks like some spotting outside the planned zone. One reason to visit these burns … Continue reading →

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Promises, promises?

Posted on 7 November, 2011 by fobif

Readers will remember our criticisms of DSE’s conduct of the Smutta’s track management burn early this year [see our posts of April 26 and May 2]. Specifically we were concerned by the destruction of a very large tree near Hunter’s … Continue reading →

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Fire management: so what’s new?

Posted on 7 November, 2011 by fobif

DSE is in the process of reviewing its Code of Practice for fire management on public land. The review is being done in the light of the Bushfire Royal Commission’s recommendation 59. This recommendation required that the Code  ‘provide a … Continue reading →

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New blog on Muckleford Forest

Posted on 19 October, 2011 by fobif

Chris Johnson has started a new blog on Muckleford Forest. It contains up-to-date information on this season’s past and forthcoming DSE burns in that area. Chris made the following observations about last Friday’s burn: I was dismayed to see that … Continue reading →

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DSE changes proposed fire management zones

Posted on 12 October, 2011 by fobif

Chris Johnson wrote the following report: Local residents from Green Gully, Muckleford and Muckleford South, supported by local naturalists and groups such as Newstead Landcare and FOBIF, have been successful with their submission to have the proposed fire management zones … Continue reading →

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