I only have tangential knowledge of it, but there's a lot of controversy around how planned burns are implemented. Do you do it later in the year closer to summ

I only have tangential knowledge of it, but there's a lot of controversy around how planned burns are implemented. Do you do it later in the year closer to summer when the risk is higher, or do you do it early and let fuel build up plus cover less ground? Should you be bulldozing the trees off the side of the road and completely clearing it instead of doing controlled burns along the edge? Does it do anything to drive along a road setting the brush on fire because it's easy to get to, if you don't burn the massive forest that's going to send embers straight into your town? What do you do when there's a rare orchid patch or a tiny endangered marsupial right in the area you want to set on fire? What if there's a commercial pine or bluegum plantation that you aren't allowed to set on fire? Which models do you use for choosing where to burn? Do you listen to the researchers from the university three hours' drive away, the indigenous elders who live an hour away but have traditional knowledge, or the old farmer who lives right next door who tells you where the fire went on Black Saturday but probably has a bit of tunnel vision from his experience? When so many fires are deliberately lit, should you put more effort into finding the arsonists instead of controlled burns? Is the RFS stealing funding from the CFA somehow? Should you arrange a reciprocal deal where you send water bombers to California during the Australian winter and spring if it means they're not at home to stop "controlled" burns that get away? Why are all these idiots building houses with redgums so close you can reach out the window and touch them, and how do you do a controlled burn in a lightly populated area with risky houses like that?