The inaugural meeting of the Grampians Regional Strategic Fire Management Planning Committee was held in Stawell on Thursday 4 December 2008 and was initially chaired by Mr Brian Parry AM, Chair of the State Fire Management Planning Committee.
The Barwon South West Regional Strategic Fire Management Planning Committee was established on 17 November 2008 at the Corangamite Council Chambers in Camperdown.
CFA faces significant challenges as a community-based emergency management organisation providing a range of services over a wide geographic area in a highly bushfire prone region.
The Brumby Government tabled its response to the report of the Environment and Natural Resources Committee (ENRC) into the Impact of Public Land Management Practices on Bushfires in Victoria in State Parliament in early December.
The Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has just released a new Fire Note that summarises a report into fire behaviour and suppression activities at a pine plantation in New South Wales.
The Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has just released a new Fire Update on the wildfire chronosequence project, part of Bushfire CRC project 3.1 Impacts of Fire on Ecological Processes and Biodiversity.
