Bushfire Front chairman and former general manager of the Department of Conservation and Land Management, Roger Underwood – a seasoned forester who has fought hundreds of bushfires – wants the State Government to denounce the recent research from Curtin and Murdoch on prescribed burns. 

"The last six months or so, there's been an explosion of output from these people ... to alarm and upset the public, with a view to ensuring the burning program is undermined," he told Liam Bartlett on 6PR Mornings.

"If we don't have the prescribed burning program in South West forests, it puts the whole community and the forest itself at risk of high-intensity, summer bushfires, and everyone suffers when you get them.

"Why would anyone promote a change to government policy that increases the likelihood of people being burnt and forests being burnt and towns being burnt?"

Bushfire Front chairman and former general manager of the Department of Conservation and Land Management, Roger Underwood – a seasoned forester who has fought hundreds of bushfires – wants the State Government to denounce the recent research from Curtin and Murdoch on prescribed burns. 
"The last six months or so, there's been an explosion of output from these people ... to alarm and upset the public, with a view to ensuring the burning program is undermined," he told Liam Bartlett on 6PR Mornings.
"If we don't have the prescribed burning program in South West forests, it puts the whole community and the forest itself at risk of high-intensity, summer bushfires, and everyone suffers when you get them.
"Why would anyone promote a change to government policy that increases the likelihood of people being burnt and forests being burnt and towns being burnt?"

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