通过计划焚烧增强森林复原力并保护对火灾敏感的森林和价值.pdf

1、Enhancing forest resilience and protecting fireEnhancing forest resilience and protecting fire-sensitive forests and values through prescribed sensitive forests and values through prescribed burning burning Dr.Tony Bartlett AFSMACT BranchWe must do better We must do better-Changes are urgently neede

2、dChanges are urgently neededNeed a quantum shift in thinking and practice on managing climate change impacts on native forestsThe increased frequency of high intensity landscape-scale wildfires is impacting on forest resilience For forest fire management we need adaptive and innovative actions drawi

3、ng from both traditional knowledge and bushfire scienceBurning wont solve wildfire problem or will it!Quotes from academics Phil Zylstra and David Lindenmayer(Canberra Times May 17,2024&The Conversation Mar 23,2024)“Our research has shown that native forests can become more flammable-not less as a r

4、esult of prescribed fires”“Disturbances such as prescribed burning lead to pulses of flammable regrowth”“Prescribed burning too often has short-term benefits but long term costs”“Burning made WA forests on average seven times more flammable for 43 to 56 years”The findings from this“landmark”research

5、 are inconsistent with those from the extensive body of Australian bushfire research,and do not match the lived experience in many forests burnt by severe wildfires(Photo of long unburnt sub-alpine forest in Namadgi National Park following 2020 wildfire)Prescribed fire is the solution not the proble

6、m Prescribed fire is the solution not the problem Passive management is failing our forest ecosystemsMountain Gum ForestSnow Gum WoodlandPrescribed burnt area Unburnt areaPrescribed burnt areaUnburnt areaExamples from ACT that were burnt in 2003 and 2020Reasons for conducting prescribed burningThere