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Dainty Swallowtail (Papilio-anactus)
Coprinus atramentarius
Campylopus
Gorse Bitter-pea (Daviesia ulicifolia)
Spider Mites on Gorse
Forest Hedge Grass (Echinopogon ovatus)
Sematophyllum
Peron`s Tree Frog or Maniacal Cackle Frog (Litoria peronii)
Pseudocyphellaria neglecta
Clustered Everlasting (Chrysocephalum semipapposum)
Tortula antarctica
Flying Duck Orchid (Caleana sp)
Spear Thistle (Cirsium vulgare)
Scarlet Robin
Grey Fantail
Quaking-grass (Briza maxima)
Clitocybe semiocculta
Lichen (probably Xanthoria sp) on a Cassinia stem
Wheel Cactus (Opuntia robusta)
Coral lichen with moss (Leptodontium paradoxum)
Category Archives: Fire Management
Tarilta Gorge: burned off, washed away
It’s sometimes hard to know what to call DSE burning operations: control burns? Fuel reduction? Ecological burns? Too often none of the above apply: there’s little control, apart from keeping the burn inside the control lines [and as we know, … Continue reading
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Fire Briefing
Radio National’s Background Briefing program ‘Fighting Fire with Fire’ [broadcast on February 19 and available for podcast here] was a very fair effort to canvass all points of view on fuel management issues. The fact that it seems to have … Continue reading
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Weeds are for burning
In December we criticised DSE’s management of the Quartz Hill management burn [see 'The uses of fire'] on the grounds that the exercise failed to do anything about the prolific weeds in the area. FOBIF has now written to local … Continue reading
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Does fire protect us from fire?
Calls for more ‘fuel reduction burns’ have been insistent for years, particularly since the Black Saturday fires which burned over 2,100 homes and killed 173 people. The pressure for more management burns culminated in the Royal Commission’s recommendation that at … Continue reading
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The uses of fire
FOBIF has written to Parks Victoria to clarify some questions arising from the Quartz Hill, Chewton, Asset Protection management burn of a few weeks ago. What interested us was that the burn was pretty severe on native undergrowth [as was … Continue reading
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How good is the new Code of Practice?
DSE’s new Code of Practice for Fire Management on Public Land has been out for consultation for some time now. The document can be found here. As we signalled in a previous post, we have had preliminary misgivings about the … Continue reading
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Out of the ash
The asset protection burn conducted at Quartz Hill Chewton in late November has, as planned, produced a pretty bare landscape over about 140 hectares, plus what looks like some spotting outside the planned zone. One reason to visit these burns … Continue reading
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Promises, promises?
Readers will remember our criticisms of DSE’s conduct of the Smutta’s track management burn early this year [see our posts of April 26 and May 2]. Specifically we were concerned by the destruction of a very large tree near Hunter’s … Continue reading
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Fire management: so what’s new?
DSE is in the process of reviewing its Code of Practice for fire management on public land. The review is being done in the light of the Bushfire Royal Commission’s recommendation 59. This recommendation required that the Code ‘provide a … Continue reading
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New blog on Muckleford Forest
Chris Johnson has started a new blog on Muckleford Forest. It contains up-to-date information on this season’s past and forthcoming DSE burns in that area. Chris made the following observations about last Friday’s burn: I was dismayed to see that … Continue reading
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