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
- 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
- Historical Patterns of Bushfire in Southern Western Australia - November 2009
- Environmental Modeling and Software - May 2009
- Satellites Improve Grasslands Curing Assessment - May 2009
- Victorian Royal Commission 2009 - May 2009
- Bushfire smoke research: A progress report part 1 Bushfire Smoke: Impact on firefighters - 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 Pilbara, Australia - February 2009
- Forest Flammability: How Fire Works and What it Means for Fuel Control - December 2009
- '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
- Prescribed Burning: How Can it Work to Conserve the things that we Value? - September 2008
- Prescribed Burning: It's Role in the Containment of Bushfires and the Conservation of Biodiversity - September 2008
- Fire Behaviour in Plantations - September 2008
- Assessment of grassland curing using Field Spectroscopy and satellite imagery - 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
- Fire Paradox: A European initiative on Integrated Wildland Fire Management - September 2008
- Quantifying the effectiveness of fuel management in modifying wildfire behaviour - September 2008
- Fire and Cultural Resource Management: Aboriginal Wetland Burning in Kakadu National Park - September 2008
- What determines area burned? Relative importance of fuel management, ignition management and weather in five landscape-fire-succession models - September 2008
- Burning under young eucalypts - November 2008
- Impact of Public Land Management Practices on Bushfires in Victoria - 2008
- United States Natural Fuels Photo Series - 2008
- The place of fire in the Australian environment - 2008
- Fire Behaviour Workshop - Course Notes - September 2007
- Forest Floor Consumption and Smoke Characterization in Boreal Forest Fuelbed Types of Alaska - March 2007
- Fuel Consumption and Flammability Thresholds in Shrub-Dominated Ecosystems - August 2007
- Spatial Techniques For Grassland Curing Across Australia And New Zealand - 2007
- Guide to fuel treatments in dry forests of the Western United States: assessing forest structure and fire hazard - 2007
- A consumer guide: tools to manage vegetation and fuels. - 2007
- Linking Field Observations With Remote Sensing To Determine Grassland Fire Hazard - 2007
- Meeting challenges: Implementing a Code of Practice for Fire Management in Victoria, Australia - 2007
- Science-Based Strategic Planning for Hazardous Fuel Treatment - 2007
- Development of satellite vegetation indices to assess grassland curing across Australia and New Zealand - 2006
- Living in a land of fire - 2006
- Development of a field method for assessment of degree of curing in grasslands. - 2006
- Grassland Curing - Newsletter issue 1, Project Bulletins - 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 (10 case studies). - October 1985
- Changes in understorey vegetation in Sherbrooke Forest following burning or slashing. - January 1981
