The Hotspots team have produced a practical guide ‘The Ecological Site Assessment and Monitoring of Bush Fire Management- A guide for landholders’. Designed as a follow up to the Hotspots workshops, this guide aims to assist landholders to set objectives and measure outcomes of land management activities, specifying methods and resources to identify changes in vegetation and fuel loads, to refine and update property management plans and actions over time. Click here to access the full guide.
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Conserving Australia’s threatened native mammals in predator-invaded, fire-prone landscapes
Bushfire Volunteer,
Inappropriate fire regimes are a key threatening process for native mammals in Australia. Predation by feral animals such as...
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WATCH – Prescribed Burning Atlas launch
Bushfire Volunteer, , Fire, Hazard Reduction, Prescribed burns
A new website designed to help fire and land managers “compare the risk reduction benefits and costs from different...
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Ross Bradstock: are we ready for the big burn?
Bushfire Volunteer, , wildfire
Learn why co-existing with fire will be crucial in the future as fire regimes change from leading fire ecologist...
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Do Post-Fire Acacia Thickets Increase Long-term Fire Risk?
Bushfire Volunteer, , acacia, biodiversity, burn frequency, bushfire, Conferences, Events, Fire, fire hazard, fire risk, Fire severity, Flammability, plants, Research
Have you ever noticed dense thickets of Acacia emerge post-fire, and wondered if they may represent a long-term fire...
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Building a fire-safe garden
Bushfire Volunteer, , Birds, Garden
Professor Philip Gibbons from the Australian National University was preparing to speak at NCC’s Bushfire Conference in May, however,...
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Council Collaborations – Asparagus, BMAD, Koalas and Powerful Owls
Michelle Rose NCC, , Asparagus, Fauna, weeds
Councils link with volunteers to protect wildlife and restore bushland Lake Macquarie, Campbelltown and Sutherland Shire Councils have been...
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Box-Gum Grassy Woodlands – managing ground-layers
Michelle Rose NCC, , Cultural burning, EECs, Grassy Woodlands, Restoration
Jewels in the Landscape This guide published by CSIRO in 2015 aims to help land managers recognise, understand and...
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Does pyrodiversity really promote biodiversity?
Bushfire Volunteer, , Fauna
Does pyrodiversity really promote biodiversity? Local knowledge is important when managing fire for plant and animal conservation. An article...