Fuel assessment and fire behaviour prediction training has been
carried out with fire and land management agencies across Australia
in recent months under the roll out of Project Vesta.
The Project Vesta fire behaviour prediction system was released
to partner agencies in November 2007 and is currently in a phase of
research adoption to end-users, and the validation in different
forest types across several states.
At the May meeting of the AFAC Rural Land Managers Group it was
agreed that a series of workshops would be conducted with potential
end-user agencies to demonstrate practical application of the
Project Vesta Field Guide for Fuel Assessment and Fire Behaviour
Prediction.
Between July and October Bushfire CRC researchers Jim Gould
(CSIRO Forest Biosciences) and Lachie McCaw (Department of
Environment and Conservation Western Australia) have conducted 13
one-day workshops in five state/territory jurisdictions working
directly with more than 500 career, agency and volunteer personnel.
Workshops locations are as follows:
The final workshop for 2008 was held in bushland south of
Hobart, Tasmania. (pictured)
