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Stephen Pyne on the 2009 Victorian bushfires

Stephen Pyne, a leading expert on the history of fire around the world, has just published his reflections on the bushfires in Australia at Peeling Back the Bark, the Forest History Society's blog. "Damaging fires will come," he writes. "They will spread as the landscape allows, and they will inflict damage as structures permit. And it is there - with how Australians live on the land - that reform must go."

Read his essay at http://www.peelingbackthebark.org/