May 07, 2025

Webinar: 'Hazard reduction burning is so last century as a medieval fire practice , we need to looking at smarter ways of dealing with fires' - Prof David Lindenmayer

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1 hour 9 minutes

Professor David Lindenmayer (pictured). from The Fenner School of Environment & Society at the Australian National University, was the guest on a May 1 webinar organised by the "Victorian Forest Alliance".

Professor Lindenmayer discussed "Disturbance and flamability: how logging and burning makes forests more flammable".

His understanding of Australian forests, their history and how our interference with them, along with the challenges with the quickly unfolding dilemma of climate change, makes them significantly more susceptible to fire,

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By Robert McLean

May 07, 2025

Webinar: 'Hazard reduction burning is so last century as a medieval fire practice , we need to looking at smarter ways of dealing with fires' - Prof David Lindenmayer

Listen Later

1 hour 9 minutes

Professor David Lindenmayer (pictured). from The Fenner School of Environment & Society at the Australian National University, was the guest on a May 1 webinar organised by the "Victorian Forest Alliance".

Professor Lindenmayer discussed "Disturbance and flamability: how logging and burning makes forests more flammable".

His understanding of Australian forests, their history and how our interference with them, along with the challenges with the quickly unfolding dilemma of climate change, makes them significantly more susceptible to fire,

...more