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Grampians fire: looking forward 22-Jan-2014 At 2:38:23 PM shiltz

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Controlled burns are much harder to manage in a modern context of larger population and infrastructure. There are not many days in a year that have suitable weather conditions such that the guys running the "controlled" burn can be confident that no fences, buildings or livestock on adjoining properties will be threatened. Add to this the challenge of having to announce the burns in advance to be sure no visitors are in the area and it must get pretty hard. Think back six months and consider how we all might have reacted to a proposal to close the Staplylton area for the winter months so they could do controlled burns.
I don't think anyone would argue with the suggestion that ideally there should be regular low temperature fires in different small sections of the park rather than massive high temperature fires that kill the mature trees and leave the wildlife with nowhere to run.