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Title:
Burning Under Young Eucalypts
Date:
November 2008
Organisations
BCRC
Authors:

Fire Note 26 - Phil Lacy PhD research on fuel management in eucalyptus plantations.

Overview

There are more than 880,000 hectares of hardwood plantations in Australia. Of this, some 15 percent are located in a sub-tropical climate. This project was designed to address the issue of fuels management in young eucalyptus plantations through the use of prescribed burning. The project addresses fuels, fire behaviour, tree damage and tree recovery from low to moderate intensity fires.

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