"Some ecologists and scientists say the science behind planned burning is thin, and could result in more flammable bush material. "

"The evidence to support prescribed burning is actually remarkably thin," Professor Lindenmayer said. "The aim of the game is to reduce fire risk, but in some cases ... prescribed burning could be making it worse in the medium to long-term."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-20/scientists-challenge-fuel-load-burns-victoria/105666680
#fires #PrescribedBurns #DisturbanceStimulatedFammability #NSWLogging #bushfires #FossilFuels #biodiversity

Damage cause by prescribed burns

"100 trees were felled in a prescribed burn on WA's south coast last year...The full extent of damage caused by a prescribed burn that felled hundreds of rare native trees along Western Australia's south coast...The Leeuwin group, a consortium of WA's top environmental scientists, has urged the government to amend its burn program to avoid another mass felling."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-16/giant-red-tingle-trees-felled-controlled-burn-wa-south-coast/105512970
#Biodiversity #Conservation #fires #PrescribedBurns #destruction #harm

Forests, roads and mega fires
"More roads are associated with more fires"

"A problem arises when forest managers look at forests exclusively “through the lens of timber and dollar signs on trees."
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https://grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-prevention-roads-trump-repeal-roadless-rule-usda-forest-service/

Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)
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https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/burn-scars
#LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #roads #bushfires #timber #extractivism #thinning #PrescribedBurns #FireSuppression #megafires #colonialism #CounterNarratives #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalBurning #ecology

#FortOrd #MontereyCounty

"The Army’s Direct Notification Program is a free service to the community to provide notification for our prescribed burns. You must register for this service every year you wish to be notified….The burn season starts July 1st and ends December 31st (unless extended by permission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).”
#PrescribedBurns #AirPollution

https://fortordcleanup.com/prescribed-burns/notification/

Prescribed burns planned in Sacramento County.

"Metro Fire and Sacramento County Prepares for Wildfire Season and the California Capitol Airshow Mather, CA — The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District, Sacramento County Regional Parks Department, Center for Natural Lands Management and the Sacramento County Department of Airports Fire Department will conduct a hazard mitigation burn and multiple prescribed fire burns with and in preparation for the California Capital Airshow, between June 2 and June 20. "

#wildfires #PrescribedBurns #Sacramento #SacramentoCounty

Decolonising Fire Science -
Dr Philip Zylstra with Uncle David Wandin
"Ecologist and environmental scientist Dr Philip Zylstra is joined by Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Elder, Uncle David Wandin demonstrate how a paradigm of cooperation rather than domination allowed for the long-term coexistence with fire demonstrated by First Peoples, and the ways that we can adjust our current approaches to cooperate with Country".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahilyWGPd1c
#IndigenousKnowledge #fire #wildlife #biodiversity #Kinship #coexistence #OldGrowthForest #colonial #narrative #pseudoscience #FuelReduction #narrative #bushfire #TheBush #ColonialAustralia #domination #LandUse #settlers #grazing #biomass #litter #PrescribedBurns