2021-06-08 P&E Agenda - Item 7 - Attachment 1 - Noosa Bushland Reserve Strategic Fire Management Plan 2021

5.2    Reserve groupings
Once assessments of the ‘on-reserve’ and ‘neighbour’ risk categories are completed for all reserves
they are grouped into Priorities of Very high, High, Medium or Low priority to further inform
management actions. Final management actions will be subject to existing individual Fire
Management Plans and on-ground inspections for each the reserves.

Examples are shown below in Table 6.

 Priority                           General criteria                  Examples
 1 Very high                        Very high BPI, very high          Symplocus Environmental
 Risk rating 70-100                 biodiversity score, very high     Reserve
 4 reserves                         risk interface with
                                    development
 2 High                             High BPI, high biodiversity       Alyxia Nature Refuge
 Risk rating 40-69                  score, high risk interface with
 56 reserves                        development

 2 Medium                           Medium BPI, medium                Frogmouth Lane Bushland
 Risk rating 20-39                  biodiversity score, moderate      Reserve
 75 reserves                        risk interface with
                                    development
 3 Low                              Medium BPI, low biodiversity      Six Mile Creek Bushland
 Risk rating 0-19                   score, low risk interface with    Reserve
 43 reserves                        development

Table 6. An example of grouping Bushland Reserve into groups to help determine management priorities.
This is shown graphically below.




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