Newsletter number 34
Summer - Autumn 2007
A newsletter for people interested in the Australian Alps
About the newsletter
If Dick Williams was limited to one statement about the management of fire in the alps it would be - “One thing is for sure, simplistic solutions aren’t sound.” (And if we let him have one more,) “We moved into a flammable landscape. Fires are part of the furniture and sometimes they’re going to be big, hot and nasty.”
As Senior Principal Research Scientist with the CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Dick’s perspective is based on 25 years of immersion in alpine and fire ecology. While he has no hands-on role in the day-to-day management of the alpine landscape he is very aware of what’s involved. And it’s from this viewpoint that he can appreciate the range of skills and knowledge needed to successfully manage these landscapes.
This makes him a great resource when you’re trying to find answers to questions like; Is the 2002-03 ‘big’ fire season followed by another in 2006-07 a random occurrence, or are we likely to see this emerge as a pattern? Are fires now burning hotter at night? And how are we to deal with climate change?
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