'We are resilient': Life returns to the bushfire-ravaged Namadgi National Park

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Despite Canberra's 2003 bushfires impacting local suburbs and claiming lives, the fires this year in Namadgi National Park burned with an intensity veteran firefighters had never seen

As he made his way through the park, with equal parts wonder and frustration, Mr McNamara peeled a large slab of rock off a granite boulder. It made a sharp crack as it came away and hit the ground below.

"I've never seen a fire burn with such intensity and ferocity that we've seen through here," Mr McNamara said. "This is a landscape-building event. This is what creates the alluvial soils that we have on the plains." But there were many anxious days for Tharwa residents, and for those in Canberra's southernmost suburbs of Gordon, Banks and Conder, who watched as the fire swept over Mt Tennent and menaced their homes.

 

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