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Facts about Prescribed Burning in the South-West Forest Region
4 April , 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
This presentation by Peta Kelsey will describe the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions’ current prescribed burning program on the lands it manages in the South-West Forest Region. It will look at the effectiveness of the current regime in preventing wildfire and protecting people and infrastructure, and also its impact on biodiversity and forest flammability.
After retiring at the end of 2023, Peta took a private interest in, and investigated prescribed burning in south-west Australian forests. As a member of the South-West Forest Defence Foundation for many years, the foundation chose to publish Peta’s work in the booklet ‘Prescribed Burning Fact Sheets’ (https://southwestforestsdefence.org/prescribed-burning/).
Peta is a physicist / mathematician. After graduating she worked as a geophysicist in the Antarctic, Canberra and Fiji, and then at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Curtin University. She spent the last 20 years of her career in what is now WA’s Department of Water and Environmental Regulation, managing the Aquatic Science Branch’s mathematical modelling team, which involved modelling groundwater, catchments and estuaries.
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