Speaker

Red Hot Tips: practical bushfire management - a landowners perspective

Sarah Jacobson, Red Hot Tips Advisory Board

Managing a family property and covenant network is a juggle. Where to fence, watching for weeds, gaining confidence in when and when not to burn; there are so many factors requiring planning and guidance.

This presentation is about managing a working property for multiple agricultural and biodiversity values. It’s about how to use fire to regenerate and promote health, how to landscape plan, how to manage habitat, and how to educate the community that seeing smoke is fine.

Starting in 2020, the statewide Red Hot Tips set out to engage, educate and support Tasmanian farmers and rural landowners to actively manage their bushfire risk, and to facilitate practical vegetation fire management and ecological sustainability across the landscape.

The successful free one-stop-shop program works with individuals, or groups of farmers or landholders, who manage large tracts of land in rural Tasmania and want help managing their bushfire risk.

Sarah Jacobson is a Carlton River farmer, experienced land manager, Chair of the Red Hot Tips Advisory Group and Board Member of Rural Alive and Well (RAW). Sarah is driven by the values of family and community.

Together with her family, Sarah has worked and lived all her life on the land, using her landowner and manager experience to manage their family property and covenant network. The covenants, stretching through Copping and Kellevie, all protect something different.

As Chair of the Red Hot Tips Advisory Group, Sarah provides firsthand knowledge and advice on the practical and theoretical aspects of planned burning in covenants, running burn workshops for stakeholders, and bushfire risk treatment options for rural properties.

Read more information about Red Hot Tips here: https://www.sfmc.tas.gov.au/RedHotTips