planned burning pilot project. q7 do you think your property is in a high or low risk area for...
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The top 5 issues are:1. Risk of fire escapes2. Potential liability from fire escapes3. Access to good weather/forecast
information4. Labour to manage the burn5. Equipment to safely manage the burn
Barriers to burning...a summary
The planned burning pilot project
• Individual property fire management plans•Training workshop (the theory of planned burning)•Case study burns (the practice of planned burning)•The planned burning manual & written case studies
Patch ID & area
Goals for fire management Description Years since
last fire*Fuel hazard rating
Actions Timing & priority
House area(3ha)
Fire exclusion.
Area around house and sheds, garden, some bush and pasture
NA NA Keep driveway slashed. Keep grass around house short
in summer (crash graze house paddock).
All summer – very high priority
2 (Hill)3.6ha
Stimulate grasstree and shrub regeneration.
Heathland vegetation community (SCH).
Dominated by sagg and sword sedge, low diversity of heathy species.
Small trunkless grasstrees scattered throughout - more dense towards top of hill. Likely to be threatened grasstrees species.
Recently fenced.
15 S: MNS: ME: -B: -Overall: M
Low intensity fire, which is patchy through vegetation.
Critical to get right burn conditions during the burn: moist soils, season between April and October, stable high pressure, >2 days since rain, wind speed at 2 m <10 km/hr, humidity 40 to 60%, with overnight humidity >75% and dew of >0.2 mm.
Leave for at least 5 years to enable recovery from grazing before burning (ie burn after 2017), then recommend burn interval 10-15 years.
Monitor impacts on grasstrees where phytophthora is known to occur (ie do they regenerate & survive, or is death rate increased?). Based on results, future burning regime can be planned
April to October – high priority
Annually after burning – high priority
Training workshops
1. Fire behaviour2. Admin & legalities3. Weather4. Equipment5. Lighting the burn6. Safety7. Regeneration & fire ecology8. Assessing fuel hazard9. After the burn
Two sections to manual1. Planning for fire2. Using fire
Will be available mid-November on following websites:• www.nrmnorth.org.au• www.fire.tas.gov.au• PLCP (www.dpipwe.tas.gov.au)• www.macquariefranklin.com.au
The planned burning manual
Jon Marsden-Smedley & Bronnie Grieve (project team)Pilot farmers
John Atkinson, Simon Foster, Allan and Carol Phillips Luke Rapley, Roger Bignell, Tim Gunn, Curt Nichols, Elizabeth Hall, Peter Sattler, Anne Williams and Stephen Phillips
Technical GroupSandra Whight (State Fire Management Council), Mark Chladil, Steve Lowe and Ian Bounds (TFS), Rochelle Richards (FT), Tony Gee (TFGA), Tim Rudman and Louise Mendel (DPIPWE) and Garth Bennett (PWS)
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