Background Material
This section of our website provides a selection of reference material on fire management issues. To see any of these sections, click on the appropriate bar on the menu at right.
- Canberra Day Oration by Phil Cheney, former CSIRO Fire Scientist
This is an account of the disastrous 2003 bushfire that destroyed part of a Canberra suburb, after severely damaging the surrounding forests and water catchments.
- Fires Around Sydney by David Ryan 2004
A description of the bushfire events encountered by the early settlers at Sydney Cove
- Four Fire Management Scenarios by David Ward 2005
A description of how different attitudes to forest fire management can have very different outcomes, using a modelling approach.
- Presentations from the 2005 Eaton Seminar
Papers presented by BFF members and a Water Corporation catchment manager.
- Text of BFF Submissions to Various Inquiries