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Jacqueline Lynch

Calls for state government to protect timber trees, after WA Plantation Resources left with million-dollar bill

A WA timber company has called for the state government to do more to protect plantation land from fire, amid concerns it could cost about a million dollars to replant hundreds of hectares of timber impacted by fires in WA's South West.    

The fire in the Preston National Park burnt at emergency-level for 24 hours and tore through five and a half thousand hectares of native forest, timber plantation and farm-land east of Donnybrook.

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