ECHO Daily Map of 3 January 2020

There’s only one way to make bushfires less powerful: take out the stuff that burns

January 6, 2020

By Rod Keenan, Professor, University of MelbourneAs monstrous blazes overwhelm Australia’s south-east, the need for a national bushfire policy has never been more urgent. Active land management such as hazard-reduction burning and forest thinning must lie at the core of any such policy.Done well, controlled burning limits a bushfire’s spread and makes suppression easier, by reducing the amount of

ECHO Daily Map of 23 December 2019

There’s only one way to make bushfires less powerful: take out the stuff that burns