1. Planned burning pilot project

2. Q7 Do you think your property is in a high or low risk area for bushfire?

4. The top 5 issues are: 1.Risk of fire escapes 2.Potential liability from fire escapes 3.Access to good weather/forecast information 4.Labour to manage the burn 5.Equipment to safely manage the burn Barriers to burning...a summary

6. 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

8. Patch ID & area Goals for fire management Description Years since last fire *Fuel hazard rating ActionsTiming & priority House area (3ha) Fire exclusion. Area around house and sheds, garden, some bush and pasture 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. 15S: M NS: M E: - 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 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

9. Training workshops 1.Fire behaviour 2.Admin & legalities 3.Weather 4.Equipment 5.Lighting the burn 6.Safety 7.Regeneration & fire ecology 8.Assessing fuel hazard 9.After the burn

10. Putting it into practice – Maitland case study burn

12. Putting it into practice – Dorset Downs case study burn

15. Two sections to manual 1.Planning for fire 2.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

16. 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 Group Sandra 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) Thanks to