The intensity and spread of bushfires is largely determined by the vegetation around your property, because that vegetation becomes the fuel. In the Top End, bushfire season runs April to November and fuel loads build quickly through the dry.
A comprehensive range of vegetation management services to help keep your home free of unnecessary bushfire fuel. From weed management through to dense scrub removal, we help to keep your property clear of risk.
On both private and public properties, fuel load reduction is essential to fire safety. By removing the amount of fuel in a fire’s path, we can slow the spread and give firefighters a better chance of controlling a blaze.
Firebreaks are a cleared strip designed to stop or slow the spread of bushfire. In the NT, landholders must establish and maintain a 4m firebreak around the perimeter of the property and around any house or permanent structure, installed annually by 1 June. We build and maintain firebreaks to that standard.
One of the reasons a bushfire can burn out of control so quickly is because fire crews can’t reach them. We build and maintain fire trails through even the densest bushland, making the area more accessible in the event of a fire.
Our services include ploughing, mulching and slashing to remove vegetation that carries fire. In the Top End this most often means gamba and mission grass, which cure into a heavy fuel load through the dry.
Getting rid of diseased, dead or unwanted trees is all part of good fire management.
716 Ferries McDonald Road at Monarto South is positioned within the private lands forming the wildlife corridor joining the Ferries McDonald and Monartro Conservation Parks. These lands are characterised by the area's sandy saline soils, low rainfall and the desert vegetation species, some original and remnant to the area also infilled with long term revegetation. With the support from the Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board, local volunteers have a rolling program of increasing diversity and vegetation density across these lands. With pioneer plantings from decades earlier dying off, one part of those continuing works are weed and fire fuel load being controlled by mechanical mulching to leave open parkland with chipped surface covering encouraging ground cover regrowth. This is the work contributed to by Clearpath Vegetation Management with our thanks.
Emilis Prelgauskas
Public Officer
Monarto Residents Association inc.
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