We have the proof that logging makes Tasmania’s forests more flammable
- Written by David Bowman, Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
Matt Palmer/Unsplash, CC BY-NC-NDIn 1967, catastrophic bushfires in Tasmania killed dozens of people – and very nearly destroyed Hobart.
A year later, W.D. Jackson, Professor of Botany at the University of Tasmania, published a short but very influential article on why the fires were so bad. He suggested that after Tasmania’s wet...





