TASMANIAN forestry workers have joined interstate colleagues in calling for an inquiry into bushfires but have been accused of having double standards. Timber Communities Australia state co-ordinator Barry Chipman said a repeat of the fires that devastated the ACT, New South Wales and Victoria in summer could happen here unless national parks were managed differently. But Tasmanian Greens leader Peg Putt said the organisation had double standards, with some fires starting from forestry regeneration burns. Mr Chipman said yesterday: "The biggest problem is that vast areas are reserved and declared national parks and that is it - no one is allowed to touch it or [burn] it. "Australian forests are fire reliant, eucalypts need fire and we need fire for the renewal of our forests." Ms Putt said a Parliamentary steering committee started an investigation into Tasmania's fires but was shelved by the Government because of the embarrassment at the number started by forestry operations.