The Department of Conservation and Land Management has released a draft
fire management policy for public comment.

CALM Executive Director Keiran McNamara said the draft policy would update
the Department’s existing policy that was adopted in 1987 and updated in 1997.

Mr McNamara said the draft policy outlined the Department’s approach to the
use of fire, fire suppression and wildfire prevention. The document also
contained an outline of the rationale for the policy and the scientific
principles for fire management the Department had adopted.

Mr McNamara said copies of the draft policy were available on the
Department’s website – NatureBase at http://www.naturebase.net/haveyoursay.
The Muller Report and the proceedings of the community forum on fire were
available on NatureBase under Special Projects.

Copies of the scientific papers presented at the April 2002 forum are
published in a book titled Fire in ecosystems of south-west Western
Australia: impacts and management, edited by Ian Abbott and Neil Burrows,
and available now in libraries.

Submissions on the draft fire policy can be made either in writing, through
http://www.naturebase.net/haveyoursay, or to kerryc@.... Written
submissions should be sent to: The Executive Director, CALM, Locked Bag
104, Bentley Delivery Centre, Bentley, WA 6151 and marked Attention: Fire
Management Policy Review. The closing date for submissions is 30 April 2004.
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