Isn't planting exotic pines together in tight clusters in temperate woodland ecozones a massive fire hazard? Wouldn't it be more safer for the pines to be planted farther apart from each other like eucalypts and native cypresses as they would exist in a dry sclerophyll forest or woodland? Wouldn't this make sense for forestry elsewhere in equally dry climates like those in southern California and Mediterranean countries? It's great that there are firebreaks around tree plantations but if an exotic pine plantation catches on fire, the whole thing needs to be replanted again as pines won't respawn unlike native eucalypts. Do Australian foresters have burning regiments for their plantations to reduce fuel loads, as would routinely be the case in dry sclerophyll woodlands and forests? Is planting in wetter sclerophyll ecozones such as eastern Victoria and Tasmania any better than planting in relatively more drier zones (I notice a lot of radiata pine plantations are concentrated around the north eastern coast coast of Tasmania)?