- Title:
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Fuel Management- An Integral Part of Trans-Tasman Fire Management
- Date:
- June 2006
- Organisations
- USFS
- Authors:
- Jim Gould
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Location:
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Australasia,
Australia
Overview
Although Australia and New Zealand have quite different fire climates and fuels, the common understanding of fire behaviour underlies many facets of fire management in both countries. Fire management is the legal responsibility of various government land management agencies that manage public lands and individuals, local governments or corporations that manage private land. Volunteer bushfire/rural brigades have been formed throughout rural and peri-urban areas and are coordinated by rural and metropolitan fire authorities for specific activities such as fire suppression and fuel management. During the last two decades there has been an increasing interaction between Australia and New Zealand rural and land management fire agencies exchanging fire management practices, lessonĀ’s learnt, common incident command systems and more recently, through partnership in their research programs.
