This 76-page proceedings on the theme Fire in the Forest Environment.features many of the senior conservation and forest management luminaries of the era. Organised by the Forests Commission, Victoria,
in conjunction with Monash University Environmental Studies, it was held at Monash University, Clayton on
23 March, 1974. The indefatigable hand of Dr E.H.M. (Tim) Ealey of Monash Zoology is visible.

Incidentally Dr Ealey invited many senior public servants to present seminars for his environmental management courses. It was a seminar by Soil Conservation Authority expert Frank Gibbons in 1969 that convinced the Monash University Biological Society to take up cudgels within the Little Desert campaign in 1969.