Work Packages

To understand how to best use and manage fire to protect people, property and the environment in the future, we need to understand historic patterns.

Understanding landscape-scale variation in fuels, fire behaviour and fire severity Predicting the behaviour and severity of fires requires detailed information about the different types, amounts, moisture content, and spatial arrangement of fuels across the landscape, besides information on terrain and weather conditions.

Balancing bushfire risk with smoke impacts on the environment and human health.

Is it possible to protect threatened plants and animals using fire?

Aboriginal Australians have a long history of caring for Country through the practice of cultural burning.

Prescribed burning is a key tool in reducing bushfire risk.