Bushland & fire
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Bushfire prone land
A bushfire prone area is an area with the potential to support a bushfire or be subject to bushfire attack.
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Hazard reduction
Bushfire Hazard Reduction aims to reduce bushfire fuel before the onset of a bushfire to minimise damage to life, property and the environment if a bushfire occurs.
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Controlled burns for Newcastle area
Hazard reduction burns are carried out in bushland to reduce the fuel build up before the fire season gets underway in earnest.
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Neighbourhood Safer Places
Neighbourhood Safer Places is a location where people facing immediate bushfire threat to their personal safety or property can gather and seek shelter from a bushfire.
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Bushfire assessment
Council does regular hazard assessments of Council's bushland reserves and co-ordinates control burns for fuel reduction in Council's reserves in association with NSW Fire Brigade.
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Urban Forest
The City of Newcastle considers trees to be significant capital assets. They are as much part of the community infrastructure as roads and footpaths
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Landcare
Newcastle Landcare Network incorporates bushcare, coastcare and dunecare in Newcastle.
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Nature Watch
Nature unfolds with the seasons. Newcastle Nature Watch aims to encourage you to carefully observe and record what is happening in the natural environment around you, day by day throughout the year.