Fire and Burning

Fire and burning is also a critical part to achieving successful native timber and grazing production.  In 2006 AgForests commissioned the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries to pull together research findings over the past 100 years and put them into a ‘Using Fire in Spotted gum/Ironbark Forests and Woodlands for production and biodiversity outcomes’ guide.  This guide is designed to assist producers understand the consequences of using different burning regimes for combined native timber and grazing production, as well as managing for environmental values.

In the guide it describes a simple method to assist producers predict whether it may be suitable or unsuitable to conduct burning ‘CSIRO Fire Spread Meter for Northern Australia’ (pictured below), to receive one contact AgForests.