Heritage Skills Association sends out season's greetings and best wishes for the new year. Thank you to all that support us in the preserving and sharing of these skills, with the next generations in caring for our places. Conversations and working together makes our voices heard, in addressing the lack of heritage skills training and accreditation.

The 36m high Jarrah timber Mungalup Fire Tower was erected in 1960, 10 kms south of Collie as part of a network of towers dotted around the southwest of WA. Their function was to provide a platform for observation of bush fires during the fire season and enable prompt fire mitigation action. They were an important strategy of fire control, effective protecting property and life for decades before the arrival of aerial and satellite methods. In 2012, the Mungalup Tower was dis