Climate Cafe - State of the Forests with Rosemary Storey

Native forest logging has been banned in Victoria! Or has it? And what’s going on with these seemingly endless planned burns across the forest landscape? Are they making us safer? Are they doing much harm to the environment? And anyway, is there any alternative to protect us from bushfires in this warming world?

Rosemary Storey will share what she’s learned about these sorts of issues, and will welcome questions.

Rosemary, a former teacher, is secretary of Kinglake Friends of the Forest and a founding committee member of the Victorian Forest Alliance. She was, and still is, part of the campaign to end native forest logging, but now also campaigns to stop FFMV’s (Forest Fire Management Victoria) practice of broad scale planned burning of the forest. Rosemary is on a constant quest to understand more about the living forest and its beautiful complexity.

Along with other members of Kinglake Friends of the Forest, she has had the privilege of learning a little about forest fire behaviour from many discussions and excursions into forests with Dr Phil Zylstra, former remote area fire fighter and current forest fire behaviour researcher.