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Table 2-3C: Areas of park system burned in bushfires (excluding prescribed burns by PWG and regardless of origin of ignition) (2007–2008) 42 Region (2007–2008) Area of parks system burned in bushfires (ha) UNE 22 700 LNE 23 121 Southern 240 Eden 70 Total 46 131 Prescribed burning Prescribed burning is an important part of fire management that assists in reducing the incidence and severity of bushfires and improving bushfire control. Planning involves predicting fire behaviour using rainfall or drought history, weather (temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction), vegetation and fuel characteristics and topography. Prescribed burning carried out in State forests includes hazard reduction burns, post-logging burns, pre-logging burns and area establishment burns (for plantations). In 2007–2008, Forests NSW had planned for hazard reduction burns and post-logging burns to be carried out on about 42 186 ha of State forest across the four forest agreement regions. Hazard reduction and post-log burns then took place over approximately 31 349 ha (74% of the planned area), while the hazard reduction burns represented 57% of this figure. A further 7029 ha of plantation land was subject to area establishment burns. In addition 2525 ha of land was subject to pre-harvest burns. In 2007–2008, prescribed burning on DECC estate took place on 43 294 ha across all regions, an increase from the 29 193 ha undergoing prescribed burns in 2006–2007. The LNE region underwent the largest area of prescribed burns. Additionally 88 ha of the DECC estate was mechanically treated (e.g. slashed), mainly in the Southern region. The total area of parks within LNE region undergoing prescribed burns in the 2007–2008 year was approximately 18 110 ha, whilst 37 ha underwent mechanical treatment. In the UNE region, the total area of parks undergoing prescribed burns was 4559 ha and the area mechanically treated was 6 ha. In the Southern region, 15 415 ha of parks underwent prescribed burns and 44 ha underwent mechanical treatment. In the Eden region, 5211 ha of parks underwent prescribed burns a small area (less than 1 ha) underwent mechanical treatment. Data on prescribed burns and mechanical treatment are collected on a park basis. Two parks undergoing prescribed burns (Bongil Bongil NP and Dorrigo NP) fall within both UNE and LNE regions and the 9.1 ha (0.1 ha and 9 ha respectively) of prescribed burns in these parks have been counted in both of these regions. Data/information sources, references, further reading DECC information sourced from the PWG Fire Management Unit. NSW FOREST AGREEMENTS AND INTEGRATED FORESTRY OPERATIONS APPROVALS
Criterion 4 – Soil and water resources Roads and crossings Indicator 4.1.a: Area and percent of forest land covered by Comprehensive Road Management Plans, which include an assessment of the extent of existing road infrastructure, processes for ongoing improvement, targets and milestones (UNE, LNE, Southern regions). Indicator 4.1: Road density by category and catchment, and stream-crossing density by catchment, for the total forest agreement area, including forest and non-forest areas. Calculation of an ecologically sustainable road index and ecologically sustainable crossing index (Eden region). Approximately 1.29 million ha of State forests is covered by eight regional road management plans. The total length of the road network within State forests across the forest agreement regions totals approximately 31 000 km. No new data are available from PWG on this indicator. Comparison between PWG regions remains difficult because of different road classification systems. In 2007–2008, the PWG of DECC began to distribute the newly developed Asset Maintenance System (AMS) to regional PWG offices. This system will allow for better maintenance and monitoring of all PWG owned and or maintained assets. It will include roads and trails and a tool that may support analysis of this infrastructure in future. Forests NSW has eight regional road management plans that cover the four forest agreement areas. Planted Forest Region of Monaro finalised its plan during this period. The plans are applicable to each Forests NSW softwood and native forests region 20 . Currently, the road management plans are internal Forests NSW documents, but may be used in the future as a basis for preparing a regional ESFM supplementary plan for road management. The plans cover all of the State forests within the FA areas. The total length of the road network within State forests across the forest agreement regions totalled approximately 28 755 km (table 2-4A). Total road length recorded in Southern Region is around 12 995 km and in LNE region the reported road length increased significantly from 2687 km to 4 325 km, which appears to be a result of under reporting of the road network in 2006–2007 (the figure was reported as 5 403 in 2005–2006) and was unchanged in Eden and UNE. 20 Forests NSW regional boundaries do not correspond with forest agreement area boundaries. As a result a number of Forests NSW road management plans may be applicable to each forest agreement region (for example, the UNE region is covered by road management plans for the North East Native Forest Operations Branch, Western Native Forest Operations Branch and Northern Planted Forest Operations Branch). NSW FOREST AGREEMENTS AND INTEGRATED FORESTRY OPERATIONS APPROVALS 43
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