THE HOWITT SOCIETY

The images in this paper show part of the inferno and part of the aftermath of the fearful January 1994 wildfires in New South Wales. Commentators blamed the tragedy partly on the lack of precautionary planned fires — of which many are lighted every year in Western Australia. What are planned burns? What do they […]

Over the summer months in the southern half of Western Australia, bushfires rage through thousands of hectares of natural land. But fire cannot be allowed to run wild. Wildfires can destroy homes, buildings, fences, crops, stock and timber, and endanger human life. The Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) has a prescribed burning program […]