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Fighting fires with fire : Comments
By Viv Forbes, published 31/12/2019Mainly we must relearn two ancient skills - remove the fuel load everywhere and use fire to fight fire. We know that works.
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The bulk of the area burnt recently in NSW has been in the Blue Mountains which you now seem to acknowledge wasn't the subject of widespread indigenous burning.
Perhaps putting communities into these areas is not sensible planning and rather than wholesale clearing and burning we should be smarter about where developments are allowed to occur.