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Chair: Sean McBride (JNL)
Administers the Forest Fire Prevention Programme, identifies forest fire training needs, initiates fire prevention and control research, and manages related expenditure.
Issues: Forest fire prevention, rural fire services, training,improved emergency communications, and fire prevention and control research.
2024 FGLT Work Programme (page 6 to 7 of this PDF)
The Forest Owners Association (FOA) /Farm Forestry Association (FFA) Fire Committee established a 2022 project – Quantifying Forest Industry Investment in Fire Risk Management, referred to as the Fire Survey – to gain an understanding of the current annual costs to forest owners for plantation forest fire protection. Report attached.
Fire Committee updates:
2024 Committee Meeting Dates:
- 13 March
- 30 May
- 29 August
- 15 October