THE Forestry Corporation of NSW has completed its annual program of cool burning across the Central West to reduce the forest fuel load and the risk and impact of summer bushfires.
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The hazard reduction burning program is an essential part of Forestry Corporation's bushfire management program and has seen a total of 1,300 hectares burnt across Lidsdale, Sunny Corner, Lowes Mount and Pennsylvania State Forests.
Those burns came in the wake of other recent preventative operations in the Clifton Grove and Ophir areas north of Orange.
Planning hazard reduction burning is complex, but with precise fire science and monitoring we have pinpointed the right times and places to get some nice low-intensity burns happening.
- Silviculture manager Mike Freeman
Forestry Corporation's has a further 2,400 hectares of burning planned as part of the pine plantation establishment process.
Silviculture Manager, Mike Freeman, said Forestry Corporation has carefully planned the annual burning program and was pleased with the results.
"Our professionally-trained firefighting workforce has coordinated the strategic burning program to protect multi-million dollar pine plantations, mountain bike facilities and neighbouring farmland," Mr Freeman said.
"Planning hazard reduction burning is complex, but with precise fire science and monitoring we have pinpointed the right times and places to get some nice low-intensity burns happening ahead of fire season."
All hazard reduction burns carried out by Forestry Corporation are visible on the NSW Rural Fire Service's Fires Near Me app as planned events.
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