Draft 2012/13 – 2014/15 Fire Operations Plan – North East Region The location and boundaries of proposed planned burn/worksites shown on the attached maps are only TABLE OF CONTENTS approximate and indicative. The precise boundary of any planned burn will be identified on site by DSE before operations begin. REGIONAL DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD 3

DRAFT FIRE OPERATIONS PLAN 3

SUMMARY OF 2011/12 NORTH EAST REGION 4

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HOW TO READ THE FIRE OPERATIONS PLAN 5

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Page 2 of 53 Draft 2012/13 – 2014/15 Fire Operations Plan – North East Region Regional Director’s Foreword Draft Fire Operations Plan This document contains the proposed fire prevention and preparedness works Following the Victoria Bushfire Royal Commission (2009), the Victorian to be delivered for the period 2012/13 to 2014/15 within the North East Region. Government committed to an increased planned burning program on public land to reduce fuel loads to help protect the community and This Plan covers all public land including all national parks, State parks and environment from the impact of bushfires. regional parks and all State forests. Numerous other small reserves and Crown land are also included. The Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) and Parks Victoria are responsible for undertaking planned burns on public land. The area covered by this Plan is shown in Map 1. Each year DSE prepares three-year Fire Operations Plans to identify where The Plan is prepared, and will be implemented, in accordance with the Code of planned burning and other fire prevention works will be undertaken on Practice for Fire Management on Public Land, Fire Management Manual 2.1: Fire public land. Operations Planning and other relevant DSE Instructions, Manuals and Guidelines. The Fire Operations Plan, which applies to land managed by DSE and Parks Victoria, shows proposed activities such as: It delivers the strategy outlined in the Alexandra/Broadford Fire Protection Plan • planned burns; (1999), and the Mansfield/Ovens/Shepparton/Upper Murray Fire Protection •