Fire management planning for urban bushland : a guide for landowners, fire officers and bushland 'friends' groups.

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Areas of urban bushland are environmentally valuable and they should be managed in a sustainable manner. The landowner/manager of the bushland is encouraged to write and implement a comprehensive management plan for the protection of bushland, which includes fire management planning. Some ecosystems have evolved to survive fire and some plants may even require fire to regenerate. However, in metropolitan Perth, the influence of disturbances (by vehicles or people) and weed invasion on bushland must be considered carefully when deciding whether planned burns are appropriate. In planning fire management for bushland areas, it must be remembered that many initiatives designed to reduce fire hazard also reduce environmental quality. Similarly, some initiatives to protect the environment can result in an undesirably high fire hazard. It is therefore important that all parties who have a vested interest in the management of the bushland are involved in planning the best possible solution to this conflict of interest between the potential for degradation to the environment through fire prevention measures and the damage caused by fire