Program & Speakers
Forestry Australia’s Forest Fire Management Committee have developed a topical and broad program to explore prescribed burning including cultural, practical and research perspectives. We look forward to this important and timely discussion, and welcoming your attendance.
Wednesday 26 June
7:30 | Registration, arrival tea & coffee |
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8:30 | Welcome to Country |
8:50 | #1: Opening & Dr Kevin Tolhurst AM Memorial Lecture
Prescribed fire: The facts |
9:30 | #2: Cultural fire practices and Aboriginal forest management
Aboriginal land management in forestry Open forest – a cultural landscape – man made |
10:45 | Morning tea |
11:15 | #3: Assessing the effectiveness of prescribed fire in reducing the spread and severity of unplanned fires
Contemporary challenges in fire management in South Western Australia Managing savanna fire regimes Reducing bushfire risk using prescribed burning across all land tenures An outline of prescribed fire in Southern Pine plantations in Queensland |
12:45 | Lunch |
13:30 | #4: Achieving land management goals using prescribed fire
Prescribed burning NBFT as a risk reduction approach and as an aid to suppression Re-introducing broadscale fire following several decades of fire exclusion Planned burning to achieve risk reduction and biodiversity objectives |
15:00 | Afternoon tea |
15:30 | #5: Panel: Prescribed fire research – encouraging effective practice, what are critical gaps and how can these be filled?
Dr Rowena Morris, Natural Hazards Research Australia |
17:15 | Wrap up |
17:30 | Close |
18:30 | Casual networking dinner |
Thursday 27 June
8:00 | Registration, arrival tea & coffee |
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9:00 | #6: Fire communication
Actions required to improve forest fire management (“We need to do more of these things…”) Communicating complex fire science How have we got it so wrong? The public perception of forests and the role of media |
10:15 | Morning tea |
10:45 | #7: Why do we need prescribed fire in our environment?
Enhancing forest resilience and protecting fire sensitive forests and water catchments with prescribed fire Practical bushfire management on private land: Red Hot Tips Saving our water supply through prescribed burning FESA in the Wombat Forest: Opportunities and challenges presented by long-term prescribed fire experiments |
12:30 | Lunch |
13:15 | #8: Fire management, health & risk
What can fire fighters learn from smoke research for health management? Identifying and managing dangerous trees when prescribed burning |
14:30 | Afternoon tea |
15:00 | #9: Prescribed fire: considerations on the way forward
KPIs helping us to meet the National Fire Policy Statement goals Creating effective partnerships and engagement with stakeholders Developing an effective prescribed burning workforce |
16:30 | #10: Wrap up, resolutions & close |
17:00 | Close |