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The Grose Valley Fire Forum
Saturday 17 February 2007
Mt Tomah, NSW Australia
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The Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute
organised a forum of representative community members and fire
authorities to address issues arising from management of a fire in the
Grose Valley in the Blue Mountains in November 2006. |
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The Institute was invited by the Minister for the Environment, Bob Debus, to hold this forum with the following aims:
- To brief the community on the management of the Grose Valley fire
and the framework and context for the management of fire generally
within the World Heritage Area;
- To identify any issues that relate specifically to the management
of the Grose Valley fire, and that haven’t already been captured and/or
responded to within the s.44 debrief report;
- To identify longer term and landscape scale issues relating to the
management of fire in the Greater Blue Mountains WHA, particularly in
this time of climate change;
- To develop an action plan, which responds to any unresolved issues identified above.
The forum report contains an action plan addressing issues and questions including:
- How does bushfire management need to adapt to the implications of climate change?
- How can bushfire management policy better account for protection of
World Heritage values?
- How adaptive is bushfire management and policy
to the specific circumstances of the Blue Mountains?
- Better interpretation of ecological data into decision-making and practical fire-fighting procedures;
- Improvements in bushfire risk management planning;
- Better translation of legislated objectives for protection of natural and cultural values into operational guidelines;
- Improved information flow between fire authorities and the
community during and after major fires, including more transparency and
public involvement in the review processes;
- Increasing funding for fire-related research, planning, risk mitigation, and post-fire ecological rehabilitation.
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