‘We’re always going to be working in a novel environment’: Fighting fire with a global science

Matt Dennien
February 10 2019 - 4:30am
Evidence of backburning on Highland Lakes Road near the town of Miena, during the Great Pine Tier fire in the Central Highlands. Picture: Scott Gelston
Evidence of backburning on Highland Lakes Road near the town of Miena, during the Great Pine Tier fire in the Central Highlands. Picture: Scott Gelston

The fire crisis still unfolding across Tasmania, with seven homes destroyed and over 205,000 hectares of world heritage wilderness and forest burnt, is not the first Dr Crystal Kolden has experienced in recent months.

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Matt Dennien

Matt Dennien

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Matt Dennien is a journalist at The Examiner, based in Launceston. Contact him via email at matt.dennien@examiner.com.au, or more securely via Signal on +61 437 672 994.

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