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Stream Frontage Upgrades
General Articles
July, 2010
STREAM FRONTAGE PROGRAM: Melbourne Water and Landcare are working together to encourage restoration of Stream Frontages. There is funding support for this plus assistance in doing the work. It offers improved productivity, erosion control, bird and wildlife enhancement to name just some of the advantages. To show the information from Melbourne Water, click on the tab "News" for the link.
Unstoppable Fire Storm
"The worst situation you can have''. Bushfire specialist and scientist Kevin Tolhurst describes the behaviour of the deadly 7 February 2009 fires. From: The Age (7 June 2009) By: Michael Bachelard
Black Saturday Bushfires
I was asked by a friend in America what I thought of some of the media and web stuff circulating about the Victorian fires. As a Victorian forester with professional training in fire behaviour, fire suppression and fire management, and with experience as a sector boss in fires leading up to and including Ash Wednesday (Feb 1983), I have maintained an on-going interest in fire management in Australia.
