Jason Ross Wildfire has consumed more than three times as much south-west Western Australian public native forest every year since 1995 as it did across the three preceding decades, while prescribed burning across those same forests has halved. That is
Sixty Years of Data Show Prescribed Burning Cuts Wildfire Losses



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