"The whole forest is dry, the moss is dry," Mr Stephens says.
"If you dropped a match, it would go like a bonfire and it wouldn't stop. I'd hate to see a fire in this area because once a leatherwood is burnt out, it's finished.
"Arrowsmith was burnt out in 1956 and not one tree ever came back — not in our generation anyway."
Rainfall at historic low levels
The west coast typically receives about 200 millimetres of rainfall every month of summer but weakening westerly winds have driven wet weather away from the region.
The result has been rainfall "in the lowest 10 per cent of historical records", according to senior research scientist at the Bureau of Meteorology Andrew Marshall.
Ms Campbell says Tasmania has already lost "about 80 per cent of the leatherwood resource" since the 1960s.
Due to irresponsible forestry and forest fires.
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