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5.1 Fire management information and decision making
Fire management at PV is a cascading framework (Department of Sustain-
ability and Environment 2006) that abides by the legislative requirements
outlined in various State Acts, to provide policies, strategies and planning
at a broad, state wide level down to park specific plans and actions. In
order for the GKT to provide a park ranger with useful information needed
for fire management activities, it is important to understand the decision
making process and information requirements. Figure 2 is a generalised
model of the decision making process for an individual burn plan -
required for conducting controlled burns in a park.
Legislation
State wide policies, guidelines and strategies
Fire Area 10 year plan
consultation with
community, CFA,
police, stakeholders
etc.
Fire ecology strategy;
Potential burn areas
Fire District annual plan
Local park's decision to light an
individual burn on the day
Local park's
individual burn plans
weather, fuel and fuel
moisture, assessment of
conditions on the day etc.
background data,
park management plans,
park environmental action plans,
other local data etc.
Figure 2 : Generalised decision process for lighting a controlled burn in a park .
Figure 2 shows that apart from legislation and other key documents, a
range of people and organisations are also consulted. Furthermore, a variety
of other fire management related data, tools and systems are part of the
process. These combined form the base for the prototype, to which other
data are added.
 
 
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