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South Para Collaborative Fire Management Plan For further information please contact: Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources Phone Information Line (08) 8204 1910, or see SA White Pages for your local Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources office. This Fire Management Plan is also available from: http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/firemanagement Front Cover Main image: South Para Reservoir © Ian Tanner Inset Images: Stiff White Spider-orchid (Caladenia rigida) © Joe Quarmby, Barossa Reservoir © SA Water, Pine Plantation © ForestrySA Disclaimer The Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, ForestrySA, SA Waters, and its employees do not warrant or make any representation regarding the use, or results of the use, of the information contained herein as regards to its correctness, accuracy, reliability, currency or otherwise. The Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources and its employees expressly di sclaims all liability or responsibility to any person using the information or advice. Information contained in this document is correct at the time of writing. Permissive Licence This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Reference to any company, product or service in this publication should not be taken as a Departmental endorsement of the company, product or service. © Crown in right of the State of South Australia, through the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources 2016 ISBN 978-1-921800-80-1 Preferred way to cite this publication DEWNR 2016, South Para Collaborative Fire Management Plan. Government of South Australia, through Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, Adelaide Acronyms AFAC Australasian Fire & Emergency Services GRN Government Radio Network Authorities Council HA Heritage Agreement AMLR Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges ha Hectares A-zone Asset Protection Zone IC Incident Controller BMAP Bushfire Management Area Plan IMT Incident Management Team BMC Bushfire Management Committee KFRS Key Fire Response Species B-zone Bushfire Buffer Zone MFS Metropolitan Fire Service CFS SA Country Fire Service MLRFC Mount Lofty Ranges Fire Cooperative CP Conservation Park MSEC SA Minister for Sustainability, Environment Cwlth Commonwealth and Conservation Cpt Compartment MVG Major Vegetation Group C-zone Conservation-Land Management Zone MVS Major Vegetation Sub-group DEH The (former) SA Dept. for Environment and NFR Native Forest Reserve Heritage NP National Park DENR The (former) SA Dept. for Environment and NVC Native Vegetation Council Natural Resources NVIS National Vegetation Information System DEWNR The SA Dept. of Environment, Water and Natural PF Plantation Forest Resources PPE Personal Protective Equipment EA Environmental Assessment RP Recreation Park EFMG Ecological Fire Management Guidelines RR Reservoir Reserve EFMS Ecological Fire Management Strategy SA South Australia FDI Fire Danger Index SAW SA Water FL Forest Locality sp. Species (singular) FSA ForestrySA spp. Species (plural) GAFLC The (former) Government Agencies Fire Liaison ssp. Subspecies Committee TPC Threshold of Potential Concern GAFMWG Government Agencies Fire Management Working Group South Para Collaborative Fire Management Plan 2015 i EXECUTIVE SUMMARY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This Fire Management Plan covers over 20 000 hectares of public land managed by the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, ForestrySA, and SA Water in the South Para area of the Mount Lofty Ranges, as well as privately owned Heritage Agreement areas. The lands included in this plan are managed for conservation, recreation, forestry, or catchment management purposes. This includes: plantation forests and Native Forest Reserves (which are proclaimed for conservation purposes) within the Mount Crawford Forest Reserve managed by ForestrySA Barossa, South Para, Little Para, Millbrook, Kangaroo Creek, and Warren Reservoir Reserves managed by SA Water Cromer, Cudlee Creek, Hale, Kaiserstuhl, Kenneth Stirling (Burdetts Block), Montacute, Para Wirra, Sandy Creek, Warren, and Wiljani Conservation Parks, and Para Woodlands proposed Conservation Park managed by DEWNR selected Crown land managed by DEWNR privately owned Heritage Agreements adjoining public land. This Fire Management Plan has been developed through a partnership between these State Government land management agencies and the South Australian Country Fire Service to promote collaborative bushfire risk mitigation. The plan emphasises the protection of human life as the highest priority, proposes strategies to reduce the risk of bushfire threatening assets and infrastructure and provides direction for land managers in the protection and enhancement of environmental values. It is important to note that there will be transitional stages throughout the implementation of the proposed works and strategies which will be dependent upon annual prioritisations and the allocation of resources to each agency over the 10 year life of this Fire Management Plan. The South Para planning area includes the largest contiguous expanse of remnant native vegetation in the Mount Lofty Ranges. The Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges are unique due to relatively high rainfall and hilly topography, surrounded by coastal environments to the west and south. The diversity of landscapes within a comparatively small area supports a diverse array of ecosystems and species. Many of these species are endemic to the region or geographically separated from other state or interstate populations. Historic native vegetation clearance throughout the region has resulted in as little as 13% of original native vegetation remaining. Species have become extinct and many more are continuing to decline. The native vegetation within this plan acts as a stronghold for a number of endemic and threatened species and ecological communities. The area was identified as a priority for fire management planning due to the potential for bushfire to threaten the local community (such as Williamstown and other centres), essential infrastructure, Adelaide’s drinking water catchment, commercial forestry plantations, and threatened species and ecological communities. On Friday 2 January 2015 this potential became a reality when the Sampson Flat bushfire burnt 12,569 ha from Parra Wirra to Cudlee Creek and Hermitage to Forreston, over six days. Large areas of Millbrook Reservoir Reserve and Mount Gawler Forest Reserve were burnt at varying intensities. By the end of the event reported losses included 28 houses, 11 businesses, 103 sheds and other buildings. This plan seeks to address such impacts and risks during the planning process by: ii South Para Collaborative Fire Management Plan 2015 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY undertaking a risk assessment to identify life, property, and environmental values that may be threatened by bushfire applying DEWNR Fire Management Zoning principles to guide the management of fuel in Asset Protection and Bushfire Buffer Zones and designating Conservation-Land Management Zones applying DEWNR Ecological Fire Management Guidelines to determine appropriate fire regimes in Conservation-Land Management Zones assessing track standards using the Government Agencies Fire Management Working Group guidelines for firebreaks and fire access tracks in South Australia. The following recommendations have been identified as a result of applying the above processes. Fuel reduction: . in Asset Protection and Bushfire Buffer Zones using a variety of methods, including prescribed burning and mechanical removal . in strategic areas within the Conservation-Land Management Zone to provide some landscape protection within the reserves and increase patchiness within the vegetation across larger areas . to complement strategies to manage species or ecological communities. Fire management actions to increase fire readiness, including changes to fire access and mitigation and suppression infrastructure. Coordinated fire management between the agencies and adjacent landowners through Bushfire Management Area Plans. The agencies thank those who have contributed to the development of this plan and encourage their continued engagement in managing fire in the South Para planning area. The plan will form a significant component of the Adelaide Mount Lofty Ranges Bushfire Management Area Plan. As fire is a landscape issue, the community will also need to implement fire management strategies to complement and enhance work undertaken by the agencies. The draft plan was released for public comment for a period of four weeks over July and August 2013. Comments were then evaluated and incorporated where considered appropriate. Subsequent to this, a review occurred in 2015 post the Sampson Flat bushfire. A major review of this plan will occur after ten years of implementation, or earlier if required. South Para Collaborative Fire Management Plan 2015 iii CONTENTS CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .....................................................................................................................II CONTENTS ..................................................................................................................................... IV 1 SCOPE AND PURPOSE ...........................................................................................................1 1.1 Objectives ...................................................................................................................................
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