How To Plan A Burn: Landholder Workshop | Rathdowney

Are you considering using fire on your property?

This practical workshop will help landholders understand the role of fire in integrated land management and the key steps involved in planning a safe and effective burn. Learn how to assess fuel hazards, define burn objectives, understand legislative responsibilities and permits, and build confidence to make informed fire management decisions for your property.

Highlights of this workshop:

• Understanding fuels, weather and fire behaviour

• Deciding where and when to burn

• Planning a burn safely and effectively

• Legal requirements, permits and landholder responsibilities

• Equipment, resources and people needed for a burn

Attendees will take part in an interactive walk and talk through a local vegetated area, where they will observe fuel conditions, identify potential hazards, and discuss practical fire management strategies in a hands-on, on-ground setting.

Participants will be required to drive to the selected site for this workshop.

Make sure to bring: 

• Closed in shoes.  

• Long pants, long sleeves.  

• Reusable water bottle.  

• Hat.  

• Sunscreen.  

• Bushwalking gaiters (if you have them).  

• Rain jacket (if necessary).  

  
  

Catering and supporting materials will be provided for all participants. This is a FREE workshop.  
 
For more information, contact Wayne from Healthy Land & Water's Fire Ecology and Preparedness Team on wayne.t@hlw.org.au.

This project is funded through the SQNNSW Innovation Hub which received funding from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund. This workshop is also supported by the Queensland Fire and Biodiversity Consortium.