Bushfire fuels (leaf litter, twigs, bark, shrubs and grasses) build up naturally over time and fuel management, or fuel reduction, refers to the reduction or removal of combustible materials (leaf litter, twigs, bark, shrubs and grasses) through various means including:
- mechanical
- chemical
- biological
- fire.
- prescribed burning
- grazing
- slashing and mowing
- physical removal of fuels
- fire trails.
Research found in this area of this site examines management or modification of fuels though prescribed burning or other means.
Items in Fuel Management: Research and reports
- Predicting Woody Fuel Consumption: Can existing models be used - March 2011
- Ecologically Responsible Roadside Fire Management - August 2011
- Predicting Woody Fuel Consumption: Can existing models be accurately applied to Australian eucalypt fires? - September 2010
- Prescribed Burning and Sediment Movement in the Mount Lofty ranges, South Australia - September 2010
- Forest Flammability: Modelling and managing fire and fuels - September 2010
- Developing Regional Curing Scenarios - September 2010
- Mobile Lab Fills Greenhouse Gas Knowledge Gap - March 2010
- Effectiveness of Fuel Reduction Burning - January 2010
- Determining Grassland Fire Danger with Plant Models - February 2010
- Improving Senescence Algorithms in Plant Growth Models to Simulated Grassland Curing Rates - September 2009
- The Forest Flammability Model - September 2009
- Satellite Remote Sensing as a Key Tool for Grassland Curing Assessment - September 2009
- Historical Patterns of Bushfire in Southern WA - November 2009
- Victorian Royal Commission 2009 - May 2009
- Environmental Modeling and Software - May 2009
- Satellites Improve Grasslands Curing Assessment - May 2009
- Bushfire Smoke: Progress report on the impact on firefighters part one - May 2009
- Fire Management of the High Country: A critical review of the science - June 2009
- Image-based Modelling of Pattern Dynamics in a Semiarid Grassland of the Australian Pilbara - February 2009
- Forest Flammability: How fire works and what it means for fuel control - December 2009
- Fire and Cattle: Impacts on high country - April 2009
- Relative Importance of Fuel Management, Ignition Management and Weather for Area Burned- Evidence From Five Landscape Fire Succession Models - 2009
- Assessment of Grassland Curing Using Field Spectroscopy and Satellite Imagery - September 2008
- Fire Behaviour in Plantations - September 2008
- No More Mongrel Country: The future of responsible fire management in Northern Australia - September 2008
- Balancing Fire Hazard Reduction and Resource Protection in an Era of Megafires - September 2008
- Pyrogenic Panic or Perceptive Planning for a New Fire World? Fire and Water Quality - September 2008
- Fire Paradox: A European initiative on integrated wildland fire management - September 2008
- Prescribed Burning: How can it work to conserve the things that we value? - September 2008
- Fire and Cultural Resource Management: Aboriginal Wetland Burning in Kakadu National Park - September 2008
- Prescribed Burning: Its role in the containment of bushfires and the conservation of biodiversity - September 2008
- The Place of Fire in the Australian Environment - September 2008
- Quantifying the Effectiveness of Fuel Management in Modifying Wildfire Behaviour - September 2008
- What Determines Area Burned? Relative importance of fuel management, ignition management and weather in five landscape-fire-succession models - September 2008
- Prescribed Burning in Temperate Peri-urban Australia: How and why is the decision to burn made? - September 2008
- Savanna Fire Ignition Experiment - September 2008
- United States Natural Fuels Photo Series - October 2008
- Burning Under Young Eucalypts - November 2008
- Impact of Public Land Management Practices on Bushfires in Victoria - May 2008
- Fuel Moisture and Fuel Dynamics in Woodland and Heathland Vegetation - April 2008
- Measuring Responses to Fire Regimes in Northern Australia - April 2008
- The Relative Importance of Fine-Scale Fuel Mosaics on Reducing Fire Risk in South-West Tasmania, Australia - 2008
- Fire Behaviour Workshop: Course notes - September 2007
- Forest Floor Consumption and Smoke Characterization in Boreal Forest Fuelbed Types of Alaska - March 2007
- Science-based Strategic Planning for Hazardous Fuel Treatment - June 2007
- Meeting Challenges: Implementing a code of practice for fire management in Victoria, Australia - July 2007
- Guide to Fuel Treatments in Dry Forests of the Western United States: Assessing forest structure and fire hazard - August 2007
- A Consumer Guide: Tools to Manage Vegetation and Fuels - August 2007
- Fuel Consumption and Flammability Thresholds in Shrub-dominated Ecosystems - August 2007
- Spatial Techniques for Grassland Curing Across Australia and New Zealand - April 2007
- Linking Field Observations with Remote Sensing to Determine Grassland Fire Hazard - April 2007
- Development of Satellite Vegetation Indices to Assess Grassland Curing Across Australia and New Zealand - March 2006
- Living in a Land of Fire - June 2006
- Development of a Field Method for Assessment of Degree of Curing in Grasslands - April 2006
- Evaluation of a Dynamic Load Transfer Function Using Grassland Curing Data - 2006
- Fuel Management- An Integral Part of Fire Management- Trans-Tasman Perspective - 2006
- The Future of Bushfire Management? - October 2005
- Grassland Curing: Project bulletins newsletter issue 1 - July 2005
- Surface Fine Fuel Hazard Rating Forest Fuels in East Gippsland - October 2004
- Overall Fuel Hazard Guide - January 1998
- The Development and Testing of the Wiltronics T-H Fine Fuel Moisture Meter - April 1997
- Fuel Hazard Levels in Relation to Site Characteristics and Fire History: Chiltern regional park case study - October 1996
- The Accumulation and Structural Development of the Wiregrass (Tetrarrhena Juncea) Fuel Type in East Gippsland - June 1993
- The Effect of Fuel Reduction Burning on the Suppression of four Wildfires in Western Victoria - December 1993
- Assessing Fire Hazard on Public Land in Victoria: Fire Management Needs and Practical Research Objectives - May 1992
- Fuel Reducing a Stand of Eucalypt Regrowth in East Gippsland: A case study - April 1992
- Effectiveness of Fuel-reduction Burning: Ten case studies - October 1985
- Changes in Understorey Vegetation in Sherbrooke Forest Following Burning or Slashing - January 1981
- Resilience of a Forest Understorey Seedbank Community to Frequent Burning -
- Finding the Balance: 2003 alpine fire area prescribed burn planning guide -
