It has also warned members are suffering post-traumatic stress because of the way the disaster was handled.

A submission to the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements has offered recommendations of what should happen in the Alpine areas that were again hit by fire during January.

MCA members were among those who could not return to their farms immediately after the fires because of potential danger, but the group's submission stated this was "simply wrong and overly bureaucratic".

"There appeared to be no proper assessment of individual situations and a blanket ban on entry seemed the easiest for the authorities," the submission stated.

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"Local knowledge and experience in these matters was dismissed and locals were threatened with being charged.

"This situation and the obvious error of the reasons behind the entry ban caused several of our members to experience severe post-traumatic stress far worse than the fire itself, because they were unable to tend to injured and suffering animals."

Mountain Cattlemen's Association of Victoria president Bruce McCormack said he wanted to see cattle grazing and back-burning programs based on traditional aboriginal techniques.

"It is clear that cattle grazing is one of the most effective tools to reduce bushfire fuel loads in some areas of the high country," he said.

"So it will come as no surprise that one of our recommendations includes this, but what the general public may not realise is that controlled burns are not carried out beyond a certain altitude, so in genuine high country one of the only methods of fuel reduction is Alpine grazing."

Much of the MCA submission looks into what the groups believes are faults in the 1939 Royal Commission into the Black Friday bushfires.

Former MCAV president Graeme Stoney said the findings of the 1939 commissioner Judge Leonard Stretton still informed current policies.

"It has become clear in recent times that much of what Stretton found was incorrect, such as that lightning starts few if any bushfires, but his report has been held up as something for the authorities and conservation groups to follow ever since," he said.

"As a group we have been constantly calling for a better system based on common sense and practical strategies to reduce fuel loads and therefore the intensity of bushfires."

Submissions to the current Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements closed on April 28 and public hearings will start on May 25, running for two weeks.

Due to COVID-19 health measures, the hearings will be live-streamed on the commission's website.