Fire Management Strategies Russel Island - Update
Fire Management strategy review and update for Russel Island.
Managing fires is a preventative measure before more severe interventions are needed.
Healthy Land & Water’s Queensland Fire and Biodiversity Consortium (QFBC) is delivering the Fire Management Strategies Update – Russel Island project for the Redland City Council (RCC).
The objective of this project is to facilitate the management and mitigation of bushfires across Redland City Council’s (RCC) managed reserves. It will provide a technical review of the original Fire Management Strategy for Russell Island that was developed in 2019.
The program focuses on:
- Technical review and update of the Fire Management Strategy for Russell Island alongside the input and collaboration of RCC’s fire management and spatial teams.
- Inclusion fn the Cultural Heritage and First Nation empowerment perspective.
- The review will help implement practical measures that can be taken to enhance bushfire resilience.
- Collaborative meeting with the Fire Management staff to talk through new/additional works completed and suggested items to be added.
What we are doing
Fire plays an important part in South East Queensland's flora regrowth cycles and must be managed efficiently and effectively.
Providing a technical and scientific review of the content of the original Fire Management Strategy for Russell Island that was developed in 2019.
Ensure they are up to date before undertaking reprints.
Deliver the most updated support tool for fire practitioners and landholders to give guidance on appropriate fire management practices.
Measuring success
As a result of the program, the following will be achieved:
- Update existing guidelines.
- Enable land use planning decision-makers and managers within communities to implement practical measures that can be taken to enhance bushfire resilience.
- Reduce future disaster risk and increase the resilience of targeted communities and beyond to the bushfire hazard.
- Include the Cultural Heritage and First Nation empowerment perspective.
- Include a collaborative meeting with the Fire Management staff to talk through new/additional works completed and suggested items to be added.
Why this project is important
|
Bushfires are an inherent part of the Queensland landscape and in many areas, bushfire risk is increasing because of hotter, drier weather conditions. The impacts from bushfires vary according to the severity of the event, the proximity and exposure of people and property to hazardous vegetation, and vulnerability to bushfire threats. Bushfire impacts can affect people and property through flame attacks, ember attacks, radiant heat exposure, wind and smoke attacks, and convective and conductive heat exposure. Fire Management Strategies is a support tool provided to fire practitioners and landholders to give guidance on appropriate fire management practices. This will enable land managers to plan hazard reduction burning and undertake planned burns to improve production and conservation outcomes. |
Project snapshot
| Project name: | Fire Management Strategies Russel Island - Update |
| Project manager: | Dr Diana Partridge, Healthy Land & Water |
| Catchment: | Redlands |
| Timing: | 2022 – 2023 |
| Partnerships: | This project is supported by Healthy Land & Water, through the Queensland Fire & Biodiversity Consortium (QFBC) and funding from Redland City Council (RCC). |
| Related Articles: |
Project collaborators
This program is funded by the Redland City Council as part of its ongoing efforts to ensure the safety of its residential flora, fauna, and humans.
