This presentation by Andrew Sheath of the Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources - South Australia discusses how burning is an important weed management tool in degraded sites on the urban fringe.
This document outlines a workshop on integrating climate change considerations into forest stewardship and conservation. It introduces an adaptation workbook approach to guide participants through a 5-step process: 1) defining objectives and the area of interest, 2) assessing climate impacts and vulnerabilities, 3) evaluating objectives in light of impacts, 4) identifying adaptation actions, and 5) monitoring effectiveness. Examples are provided from Caroline Lake Preserve where challenges include potential declines in underrepresented species and lowland forests, while opportunities include favoring future-adapted species and natural disturbances. Actions discussed include continuing current practices but with a climate lens, making small adjustments to practices, and considering potentially higher-risk actions to address vulnerabilities. The workshop encourages flexibility and learning from others in
This presentation from Tom Dexter of Eurobodalla Shire Council discusses the process of re-introducing burning to Themeda Grass Headland Endangered Ecological Communities on the south coast of NSW.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation by Stuart Midgley, Assistant Commissioner of NSW Rural Fire Service presents an update on the 2014-15 fire season and an overview of the RFS projects related to fire and restoration.,
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy land
This presentation by Phil Paterson of NSW Rural Fire Service discusses a collaborative community engagement initiative on the NSW South Coast which drew on community interest in koalas and potoroos to develop positive outcomes for the management of bushfire risk and threatened species.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation by Robert Quirk of NSW Office of Environment & Heritage provides an overview of how the National Parks & Wildlife Service has been using fire for community and environmental outcomes.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
Mark Graham of Nature Conservation Council NSW discusses the growing interest in integrating fire and weed management strategies for better restoration outcomes. In collaboration with many partners the Nature Conservation Council’s ‘Healthy Ecosystems Program’ is trialling new strategies for fire and weed management across NSW. The Hotspots Fire Project team seeks any practical experiences of integrated fire and weed management.
This presentation by Justin Mallee of Byron Shire Council and Tweed Shire Council discusses how recent studies have shown the importance of fire to the regeneration and ongoing survival of key koala habitat vegetation communities but testing of on-ground techniques for regeneration indicate that adaptive restoration is the key given climatic factors and urban growth issues.
This document outlines a workshop on integrating climate change considerations into forest stewardship and conservation. It introduces an adaptation workbook approach to guide participants through a 5-step process: 1) defining objectives and the area of interest, 2) assessing climate impacts and vulnerabilities, 3) evaluating objectives in light of impacts, 4) identifying adaptation actions, and 5) monitoring effectiveness. Examples are provided from Caroline Lake Preserve where challenges include potential declines in underrepresented species and lowland forests, while opportunities include favoring future-adapted species and natural disturbances. Actions discussed include continuing current practices but with a climate lens, making small adjustments to practices, and considering potentially higher-risk actions to address vulnerabilities. The workshop encourages flexibility and learning from others in
This presentation from Tom Dexter of Eurobodalla Shire Council discusses the process of re-introducing burning to Themeda Grass Headland Endangered Ecological Communities on the south coast of NSW.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation by Stuart Midgley, Assistant Commissioner of NSW Rural Fire Service presents an update on the 2014-15 fire season and an overview of the RFS projects related to fire and restoration.,
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy land
This presentation by Phil Paterson of NSW Rural Fire Service discusses a collaborative community engagement initiative on the NSW South Coast which drew on community interest in koalas and potoroos to develop positive outcomes for the management of bushfire risk and threatened species.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation by Robert Quirk of NSW Office of Environment & Heritage provides an overview of how the National Parks & Wildlife Service has been using fire for community and environmental outcomes.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
Mark Graham of Nature Conservation Council NSW discusses the growing interest in integrating fire and weed management strategies for better restoration outcomes. In collaboration with many partners the Nature Conservation Council’s ‘Healthy Ecosystems Program’ is trialling new strategies for fire and weed management across NSW. The Hotspots Fire Project team seeks any practical experiences of integrated fire and weed management.
This presentation by Justin Mallee of Byron Shire Council and Tweed Shire Council discusses how recent studies have shown the importance of fire to the regeneration and ongoing survival of key koala habitat vegetation communities but testing of on-ground techniques for regeneration indicate that adaptive restoration is the key given climatic factors and urban growth issues.
This presentation by Emily Moskwa discusses perceptions of risk, fire and vegetation management in urban–rural interfaces are explored with regard to biodiversity values and relationships to landscape in order to understand community concerns for the maintenance of healthy and functional lands.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation by Samantha Lloyd of SE Queensland Fire and Biodiversity Consortium will explore the importance of supporting regional fire applied research, the opportunities for dissemination of the key fire applied research findings to landholders and policy makers and management implications drawn from the current South East Queensland focused research.
This presentation by Andy Baker discusses how fire-exclusion threatens the vast majority of Byron Shire’s fire-dependent vegetation and is likely to result in irreversible vegetation change and habitat loss unless fire is restored across the landscape.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation from Dan Pederson discusses how there is scope to use fire to assist rehabilitation on mine sites, however, there are significant constraints to using fire as a management tool on mine sites in NSW. Through identifying the constraints, the industry could target solutions and gain confidence in this important land management activity (i.e. risk management and fire control capacity building).
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation from Den Barber of Blue Mountains Fire Sticks shares the story of Blue Mountains Fire Sticks and how they strongly believe that cultural fire can help us to care for Country and for ourselves as people.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation by Paul Gibson-Roy provides case studies from Greening Australia to explore the role of fire in maintaining or enhancing species rich grassy communities.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation from Felipe Aires of Sydney University discusses how adding information about plant flammability and fuel complex alteration to current weed classification frameworks can help integrate fire and weed management.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation by Professor Lesley Hughes outlines the latest climate observations and projections for Australia and NSW and discuss how the climate-fire interaction is, and will continue, to change the way in which we manage both the natural environment, and the urban/bushland interface.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation by Miles Holmes and Oliver Costello explores key themes emerging from cultural burning discussions, clearly indicating the value Aboriginal people place on burning activities that strengthen cultural identity, support natural and cultural values, develop confidence and provide meaningful learning opportunities.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation by Dave Curry discusses the Bushfire resilience for Aboriginal Communities project (BRAC). By a mutual use of fire and better communication the fire resilience of Aboriginal Communities across the state has improved greatly and the understanding of the Aboriginal Culture by RFS staff has been improved to the level where traditional burns can be used in conjunction with hazard reduction.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
Grassy ecosystems in northeast NSW and southeast Queensland will benefit from a coordinated approach to the reintroduction of fire with stakeholders who share a vision for integrating traditional Aboriginal practices with the science of fire ecology.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation by Jeremy Russell-Smith discusses how economic incentives can be a powerful catalyst for development of sustainable landscape fire management
Fire can be used for ecosystem maintenance, by triggering normal successional processes, or restoration, to repair degradation and reinstate conditions to enable recovery. Maintenance uses fire to avoid excessive senescence, while restoration uses fire to revive declining diversity, reduce fire-sensitive species, and trigger recovery. Shifting a site to alternative fire-sensitive vegetation is a last resort that should only be considered under specific conditions. Cultural burning can also restore cultural practices and landscapes when combined with ecological restoration goals.
This presentation by Mick Wilson of Forestry Corporation NSW discusses case studies of burns and the experiences of fire management in Forestry lands presented, highlighting the challenges of resuscitating a fuel management programme within a complex regulatory framework.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy land
This presentation by Jamie Bertram discusses the Garby Project - working with Yarrawarra Aboriginal Corporation to achieve culturally appropriate management of fire across tenures, providing training opportunities whilst integrating bush regeneration and prescribed burning activities.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation by Emma Burgess investigates the broadly accepted paradigm that increased pyrodiversity will beget increased biodiversity. Recent research however, has questioned the relevance of a heterogeneous fire regime to a range of taxa. Controlled burning for biodiversity conservation thus remains a controversial topic. Landscape-scale bird functional diversity in this study appears to be maintained by the extent of long unburnt habitat.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This document discusses operational planning and logistics for prescribed burning in three areas: North Head, La Perouse NSW Golf Course, and Centennial Park. It outlines considerations for each location including resource allocation, control lines, weather conditions, ignition strategies, and mitigation of risks to infrastructure, wildlife, and nearby communities. Photos show before, during, and after results of prescribed burns, which aim to conserve and restore the endangered ecological community of Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub. Over 120 personnel from multiple agencies coordinate controlled fires to improve the health of 18% of this at-risk habitat.
This presentation by Michelle McKemey of the University of New England and Lesley Patterson of Banbai Enterprise Development Aboriginal Corporation shows how cross-cultural monitoring of targeted species, including the echidna and black grevillea, reveals the impact of the reintroduction of cultural burning to these species and establishes an independent monitoring program that Aboriginal communities can continue to use into the future.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
This presentation by Stuart Midgley of the NSW Rural Fire Service gives a brief overview of the 2016/2017 fire season and presents some of the initiatives and projects that the RFS is pursuing with their partner agencies.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
In this presentation Justin Leonard of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) advocates that we accept fire as an inevitable process and an integral part of our landscape and that we build our houses and backyards to embrace this fact.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
This presentation by Wayne Kington of the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council discusses how the National Burning Project has brought together inter-related aspects of prescribed burning across Australasia to design a national framework for addressing ecological risks that arise from inappropriate fire and fire regimes.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
This presentation by Lloyd Van der Wallen of the NSW Rural Fire Service provides information on the review of the Bush Fire Environmental Assessment Code and highlights the key proposed amendments.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
This presentation by Emily Moskwa discusses perceptions of risk, fire and vegetation management in urban–rural interfaces are explored with regard to biodiversity values and relationships to landscape in order to understand community concerns for the maintenance of healthy and functional lands.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation by Samantha Lloyd of SE Queensland Fire and Biodiversity Consortium will explore the importance of supporting regional fire applied research, the opportunities for dissemination of the key fire applied research findings to landholders and policy makers and management implications drawn from the current South East Queensland focused research.
This presentation by Andy Baker discusses how fire-exclusion threatens the vast majority of Byron Shire’s fire-dependent vegetation and is likely to result in irreversible vegetation change and habitat loss unless fire is restored across the landscape.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation from Dan Pederson discusses how there is scope to use fire to assist rehabilitation on mine sites, however, there are significant constraints to using fire as a management tool on mine sites in NSW. Through identifying the constraints, the industry could target solutions and gain confidence in this important land management activity (i.e. risk management and fire control capacity building).
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation from Den Barber of Blue Mountains Fire Sticks shares the story of Blue Mountains Fire Sticks and how they strongly believe that cultural fire can help us to care for Country and for ourselves as people.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation by Paul Gibson-Roy provides case studies from Greening Australia to explore the role of fire in maintaining or enhancing species rich grassy communities.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation from Felipe Aires of Sydney University discusses how adding information about plant flammability and fuel complex alteration to current weed classification frameworks can help integrate fire and weed management.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation by Professor Lesley Hughes outlines the latest climate observations and projections for Australia and NSW and discuss how the climate-fire interaction is, and will continue, to change the way in which we manage both the natural environment, and the urban/bushland interface.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation by Miles Holmes and Oliver Costello explores key themes emerging from cultural burning discussions, clearly indicating the value Aboriginal people place on burning activities that strengthen cultural identity, support natural and cultural values, develop confidence and provide meaningful learning opportunities.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation by Dave Curry discusses the Bushfire resilience for Aboriginal Communities project (BRAC). By a mutual use of fire and better communication the fire resilience of Aboriginal Communities across the state has improved greatly and the understanding of the Aboriginal Culture by RFS staff has been improved to the level where traditional burns can be used in conjunction with hazard reduction.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
Grassy ecosystems in northeast NSW and southeast Queensland will benefit from a coordinated approach to the reintroduction of fire with stakeholders who share a vision for integrating traditional Aboriginal practices with the science of fire ecology.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation by Jeremy Russell-Smith discusses how economic incentives can be a powerful catalyst for development of sustainable landscape fire management
Fire can be used for ecosystem maintenance, by triggering normal successional processes, or restoration, to repair degradation and reinstate conditions to enable recovery. Maintenance uses fire to avoid excessive senescence, while restoration uses fire to revive declining diversity, reduce fire-sensitive species, and trigger recovery. Shifting a site to alternative fire-sensitive vegetation is a last resort that should only be considered under specific conditions. Cultural burning can also restore cultural practices and landscapes when combined with ecological restoration goals.
This presentation by Mick Wilson of Forestry Corporation NSW discusses case studies of burns and the experiences of fire management in Forestry lands presented, highlighting the challenges of resuscitating a fuel management programme within a complex regulatory framework.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy land
This presentation by Jamie Bertram discusses the Garby Project - working with Yarrawarra Aboriginal Corporation to achieve culturally appropriate management of fire across tenures, providing training opportunities whilst integrating bush regeneration and prescribed burning activities.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This presentation by Emma Burgess investigates the broadly accepted paradigm that increased pyrodiversity will beget increased biodiversity. Recent research however, has questioned the relevance of a heterogeneous fire regime to a range of taxa. Controlled burning for biodiversity conservation thus remains a controversial topic. Landscape-scale bird functional diversity in this study appears to be maintained by the extent of long unburnt habitat.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2015 Bushfire Conference - Fire and Restoration: working with fire for healthy lands.
This document discusses operational planning and logistics for prescribed burning in three areas: North Head, La Perouse NSW Golf Course, and Centennial Park. It outlines considerations for each location including resource allocation, control lines, weather conditions, ignition strategies, and mitigation of risks to infrastructure, wildlife, and nearby communities. Photos show before, during, and after results of prescribed burns, which aim to conserve and restore the endangered ecological community of Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub. Over 120 personnel from multiple agencies coordinate controlled fires to improve the health of 18% of this at-risk habitat.
This presentation by Michelle McKemey of the University of New England and Lesley Patterson of Banbai Enterprise Development Aboriginal Corporation shows how cross-cultural monitoring of targeted species, including the echidna and black grevillea, reveals the impact of the reintroduction of cultural burning to these species and establishes an independent monitoring program that Aboriginal communities can continue to use into the future.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
This presentation by Stuart Midgley of the NSW Rural Fire Service gives a brief overview of the 2016/2017 fire season and presents some of the initiatives and projects that the RFS is pursuing with their partner agencies.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
In this presentation Justin Leonard of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) advocates that we accept fire as an inevitable process and an integral part of our landscape and that we build our houses and backyards to embrace this fact.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
This presentation by Wayne Kington of the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council discusses how the National Burning Project has brought together inter-related aspects of prescribed burning across Australasia to design a national framework for addressing ecological risks that arise from inappropriate fire and fire regimes.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
This presentation by Lloyd Van der Wallen of the NSW Rural Fire Service provides information on the review of the Bush Fire Environmental Assessment Code and highlights the key proposed amendments.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
This presentation by Dr Brad Murray of the University of Technology Sydney shows how a triple threat from gully plant flammability, climate change and exotic plant invasion could lead to catastrophic losses of gully habitat in the Sydney Region and highlights that reliance on gully habitat as refugia for native fauna may not be a robust strategy for the future.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
This presentation by Kellie Langford presents the various mechanisms adopted and being developed by Central Coast Council to overcome the gaps between fire risk management, enhancing community resilience to bushfire risks and ecological restoration of bushland in the Local Government Area.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
This speedtalk by Den Barber, Founding Director of the Koori Country Firesticks Aboriginal Corporation, discusses the newly created non-profit organisation which aims to revive Traditional Aboriginal cultural practices of burning Country as an alternative approach to Hazard Reduction techniques used by private and public landholders and managers.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
This presentation by Denna Kingdom of the Tasmanian Land Conservancy discusses how highland grasslands at the Vale of Belvoir are being managed through a regime of burning and/or low-intensity stock grazing. She gives an overview of the experiments that have been conducted to determine what aspects of the previous management regime are affecting the grassland condition and threatened species populations.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
This presentation by Dr John Hunter of the University of New England discusses why the re-introduction of regular fire on north coast grassy headlands would be an inappropriate management strategy and could possibly cause loss of threatened species, reduction in richness and diversity and homogenisation of the system.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
This speedtalk by Kirstin Abley of the South Australia Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources discusses how monitoring and habitat mapping conducted after prescribed burns and bushfires in Mount Lofty Ranges has drastically reversed thinking about the habitat requirements of the Chestnut-rumped Heathwren.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
This document summarizes a study quantifying the flammability of rainforests compared to Eucalyptus forests. The study examined fuel characteristics, microclimate conditions, and fire behavior in different forest types. Key findings include: 1) Rainforests have less fuel mass and burn more slowly than Eucalyptus forests. 2) Rainforest fuel moisture is less sensitive to diurnal changes than Eucalyptus forests. 3) Wildfire seasons in the region are starting earlier than 50 years ago, and climate change may increase rainforest fire risk by affecting fuel accumulation. The study provides improved understanding of rainforest fire behavior to inform predictive modeling and risk planning.
1. This document summarizes research on the decline of the endangered Eastern Bristlebird population in northern New South Wales from 156 birds across 14 populations in 1989 to 38 birds across 4 populations in 2017.
2. By mapping and comparing habitat in 1966 and 2009, the study found widespread loss (53%) of primary and secondary Eastern Bristlebird habitat due to reduced fire frequency, clearing, weed invasion, and shrub encroachment.
3. The recommendations are to use improved habitat mapping for targeted fire management, with more frequent controlled burning (every 3-6 years) needed in mapped Eastern Bristlebird habitat areas to maintain the necessary grassy understory.
Oliver Costello of NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service discusses the new NPWS cultural fire management policy which aims to support Aboriginal community aspirations to connect to and care for Country through cultural fire management on parks.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
This presentation by Craig Holland, Matthew Anderson and Suzanne Pritchard discusses how Lake Macquarie City Council, Fire & Rescue NSW and Coal Point Progress Association Landcare group combined efforts to achieve positive environmental outcomes for a reserve heavily impacted by weeds including Asparagus Fern, African Olive and broad leaf Privet.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
This speedtalk by Rochelle Lawson of Central Coast Council discusses how cool burn techniques were trialled on a Council reserve dominated by exotic grasses and environmental weeds in an effort to restore suitable Wyong Sun Orchid (Thelymitra adorata) habitat.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
This presentation by Naomi Stephens of the National Parks and Wildlife Service provides a brief overview of NPWS’s role and contribution to bushfire management in New South Wales.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
This presentation by Associate Professor Alan York of the University of Melbourne provides a brief overview of some of the studies that have increased our knowledge on the response of animals to fire and fire regimes. It outlines current research directions and discusses some of the evolving fire management strategies being implemented by land management agencies.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
Max Beukers of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and Scott Hetherington of Tweed Shire Council each describe a case study on fire management approaches for koala habitat in New South Wales. They compare and contrast different management approaches from the north and south coast, discussing key outcomes and highlighting the importance of community involvement, collaboration and long term commitments to monitoring.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
This presentation by Luke Smith of the Vic. Department of Environment, Land Water and Planning and Emily Cordy of the Federation University Australia shows that planned burns cause hollow-bearing trees, a vital ecological asset in most mature forest ecosystems, to collapse at an elevated rate. Their study highlights the importance of mitigation through manual vegetation clearing, modification of burning prescriptions and ignition pattern.
Presentation from Nature Conservation Council of NSW 2017 Bushfire Conference - Fire, Fauna & Ferals: from backyards to bush.
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3. Our goal (DEWNR) is to ensure that the
vegetation condition does not deteriorate
and fuels don’t increase due to woody
weeds.
But we are also achieving restoration
gains.
4.
5. Distribution and cover of
gorse (Ulex europaeus) in
2011 – Pre burn
Distribution and cover of
gorse 2015 – 4 years post
burn
Key learning –
Important to be able to
track the progress of
individual burns over
time.
6. Key learning – pre burn control
increases efficiency and improves
restoration outcomes.
Brush cut and burnt English broom
(Cytisus scoparius)
Cut and swabbed Rhamnus alaternus
7. Erica arborea (tree heath) control
Pre burn control;
•Ensures biomass burns – by increasing
available fuel
•Promotes Erica germination pre burn – then
burn kills juveniles
•Ensures adults don’t flower and seed on burnt
ground (also creates uniform age class for follow
up)
•Promotes native germination
•Makes follow up work easier
Pre control Post control – pre burn
Post burn
8. Callystachys lanceolata (wonnich) in perched swamp
Identified as a restoration burn for
threatened plants being out competed by
Callystachys.
Surrounding vegetation burnt under mild
conditions during spring. Swamp burnt the
following Autumn at higher intensity to
consume Callystachys and stimulate
germination.
Followed up before seed set.