Recent bushfires in South East Queensland have caused severe damage. To analyse the impact Healthy Land & Water is offering data analysis solutions to analyse through ecological assessments as well as identifying future action plans. 

Our data analysis services make use of data and maps to provide better insight into the ecological assessment. Healthy Land & Water makes use of state-of-the-art technology utilising the highest resolution accompanied by up-to-date aerial imagery. We are then able to use short-wavelength infrared to identify the problem areas and the best solution moving forward.

Through data collection and analysis, we have the skills to turn data into knowledge and assist in making decisions about property management and identifying new opportunities on the property you manage.

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Recent bushfires in South East Queensland have caused severe damage. To analyse the impact Healthy Land & Water is offering data analysis solutions.

About the Queensland Fire and Biodiversity Consortium

The Queensland Fire and Biodiversity Consortium (QFBC) started 20 years ago in Logan City Council and now has 13 local governments' financial supporters including Brisbane City Council, City of Gold Coast, Gympie Regional Council, Ipswich City Council, Lockyer Valley Regional Council, Logan CC, Moreton Bay Regional Council, Redlands City Council, Scenic Rim Regional Council, Somerset Regional Council, South Burnett Regional Council, Sunshine Coast Council, Toowoomba Regional Council. We are also supported by Powerlink, Queensland Fire & Emergency Services (QFES) (including the Rural Fire Service Queensland), Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Transport and Main Roads – Darling Downs District, Seqater, and Healthy Land & Water. This impressive list of 19 supporting organisations reflects the extensive support for the QFBC in South East Queensland and illustrates our active and dedicated partnerships over the past 20 years. The QFBC is currently embedded with Healthy Land & Water.

One of the key strengths of the QFBC is the number and diversity of partners. Each partner organisation contributes financially and in kind to the QFBC and these contributions increase significantly the value, networking reach, influence, skill base, and knowledge potential

The QFBC aims to provide a coordinated response and best-practice recommendations for fire management, fire ecology, and biodiversity conservation through education, engagement, research, and support.

Education 

The QFBC provides a suite of evidence-based resources on fire management and biodiversity for local government employees for their distribution within their communities. Some of the resources include Living with Fire – Recommended fire regimes, and Native wildlife. We also have a number of manuals to download including the Property Fire Management Planning Kit including an interactive workbook. In association with Powerlink Queensland, we have produced a Powerline easements, fire, and biodiversity supplement to the Property Fire Management Planning Kit.

Engagement – How do we best support landholders to better manage fire?

The QFBC believes the key is providing targeted capacity-building services and supporting partnerships between landholders and other stakeholders that support productive collaborations. One of the most successful and popular capacity-building resources offered by the QFBC is the Fire Management Planning workshops for private property owners. The primary aim of the QFBC Fire Management Planning workshops is to assist landowners to reduce bushfire threat on a property, whilst protecting and enhancing land management practices (e.g. protecting riparian zones, grazing, and weed management) and biodiversity values. The majority of these workshops are co-coordinated with the local governments with support from other agencies such as QPWS and QFES.

The partnership between Healthy Land & Water, the QFBC, local governments, QPWS and RFSQ is invaluable and crucial in successfully delivering a workshop such as these – The partnerships and interpersonal relationships are long term allows for partner organisations to share and pool resources, knowledge, and experience for a greater outcome.

Training for local government

The QFBC facilitates various training opportunities for local government employees including:

Overall Fuel Hazard Training focuses on the practical application of the “Overall Fuel Hazard Assessment Guide” (4th edition) by Author Rural Fire Service Inspector Francis Hines. Francis provides a very engaging one-day training session that this year went to seven locations across Queensland. Some of the comments have included – “I have used a visual type of assessment just from years of experience. This course has allowed me to quantify my assessments and to standardise the procedure.” I went in not knowing much and walked out feeling confident” Dispelling the myth that “assessment of a fuel load is done by tonnes/hectare alone” was very well done. So much more to understanding fuel loads.”.

Fire Weather 1 and 2 training. We have provided the Fire Weather Training in association with QFES and the Bureau of Meteorology for many years training fire professionals and land managers (including Local Government Officers) providing participants with a good level of understanding of the relationship between fire weather & fire behaviour for fire weather 1 and participants who attend fire weather 2 provides the necessary knowledge & skills so that participants are competent at interpreting and applying more advanced weather information to fire-related operations.

Undertaking a Planning and Building Performance Assessment for Bushfire Protection for LG Officers three-day training package for Queensland local government Officers. We have provided two training courses in the last two years. The training provides an understanding of the requirements of AS 3959 – 2009 Construction of Buildings in Bushfire Prone Areas and how to evaluate the quality and compliance of Bushfire Management Plans against the Standard. Assessing Bushfire Management Plans is complex, therefore we engaged Dr. Graham Douglas, University of Western Sydney to deliver training that assists local government Officers to understand methodological issues and verification measures. “The best and most useful part of the training was the understanding of bushfire risk and how to use AS3959” a 2017 participant.

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QFBC Forums: The annual QFBC Fire Science forum – Over 200 people gathered at the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens to celebrate 20 years of the QFBC. With the theme Fire, Research, and Partnerships, this anniversary forum showcased applied fire ecology and on-ground fire management projects and programs that highlight the value of partnerships and longevity in applied fire ecology and on-ground management. The program featured 17 presentations, delivered by 30 presenters from 21 different organisations. Stay tuned for the QFBC Fire Science Forum 2020.

QFBC E-news – The QFBC E-news is a regular compilation providing a general overview of international, national, and regional media coverage and recent journal articles on fire and biodiversity-related issues that do not purport to be exhaustive. The information contained in the compilation is taken as is from sources external to the QFBC that are/are either freely available on the Internet or provided by an external source to QFBC and permission has been granted to freely distribute it. To join http://www.fireandbiodiversity.org.au/contact.html