POLICIES 4.3 Fire management
4.3 (a) Conservation management strategies and plans should make provision for fire management, covering fire risk, fire protection, fire control, fire regimes, and the use of prescribed burning for ecosystem management.
4.3 (b) Conservation management strategies and plans may provide for small-scale prescribed burning where it is clearly necessary to:
- i. manage fuel loadings where this addresses a significant risk and is ecologically justified; or
- ii. preserve specified indigenous species, habitats or ecosystems.
4.3 (c) Fires may be allowed to burn where the Principal Rural Fire Officer considers that the risks to people, places and property can be managed in accordance with predetermined fire plans, which should take into account planned conservation outcomes.
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