Reducing the impact of wildfire
Healthy upland rivers have not evolved with broad scale and uncontrolled wildfire in the landscape.
Our waterways are wetted areas of the landscape which provide cool refuges in times of dry. For tens of thousands of years Aboriginal peoples managed the Australian landscape with cultural burning practices that mitigated large scale and uncontrolled wildfire.
Our priority is to support catchment management that reduces the impact of uncontrolled wildfire on key habitat areas, target species and important assets.
Why is it important to mitigate uncontrolled wildfire in the upper Murrumbidgee?
Areas of priority that need to be protected.
Assets such as cultural ones.
Impacts on water quality, sediments.
Read about our work in this priority area
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