The one question I would like to ask is where are the Greenies in all this, Harriet Swift and all her friends, where are they? Do they have to be told to go help fight - "all the precious trees are being burnt". Practice what you preach.

Ah, the sweet stench of sophistry. Your correspondents (Letters, December 5) seem to imply that if people have green credentials they would not be fighting bushfires or helping to save wildlife up north. Wrong - I know a few who are doing exactly that right now, so let's not assume a false binary.

Then there's the old saw (pun unintended) that by drastically cutting down forests we will be saved from wildfires. What I have seen in the Bodalla State Forest behind us seems to indicate the contrary. In fact, we are at greater risk now since Forestry Corporation undertook logging there a few months ago.

Large dump piles of cut down trees and leaf and branch litter have been left strewn on the ground, a tinder invitation which would explode into an uncontrollable conflagration at the smallest spark.

I suspect there won't be much wildlife left to rescue as tree hollows, wombat burrows, and other wildlife shelters are gone. Indeed, we no longer hear birdsong erupting from the forest now that the trees bearing their nests have been felled.

I hope that in the event of fires breaking out here (Heaven forfend!), we'll have people from the forest industry helping us.

The current bushfire situation demands that we immediately implement whatever actions are necessary to reduce the impact of future bushfires and to assist those fighting the fires.

Every road, however minor, must in future be looked upon as an important fire break.

We must either clear all vegetation for a significant distance (perhaps 50 to 100 metres) back from both sides of roads, or taper tree heights on each side of roads (to reduce the height of fires at roads and therefore make fire fighting less hazardous and more effective) and annually control-burn the leaf litter along these corridors.

Those willing to collect fallen firewood from these corridors - even if they are in National Parks or State Forests - should be encouraged to do so, to help reduce unnecessary fuel loads.

This may be a major shift in thinking. But it is clearly now an absolute necessity.

And, next winter, the 203,300 unemployed in NSW should be enlisted (and paid) to help establish these firebreak corridors along our roads throughout the state.

The $18million deficit by this pathetic BVSC is one further illustration, if any more were needed, of the complete incompetence of this virtue signalling, dysfunctional rabble. The lot need to be tossed out at the next election with the current general manager summarily dismissed.

Kudos to those responsible for providing the new compostable dog waste bags for dog owners!

I was always concerned with the black degradable bags provided previously, as I understand that they actually break down into micro plastics.

I have been buying my bags from Melbourne for years as they are biodegradable and will be consumed by microbes in landfill.

So well done Bega Valley Council!