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Fire as a land management tool - National Rural Survey |
Understanding the issues important to rural New Zealand
ABOUT THIS SURVEY:
Scion invites you to complete a survey on the use of fire in rural land management.
Fire is used in the rural sector by a wide ranging group of people. Because it is such a useful tool in rural areas, we need to provide guidelines for safe and sustainable use. We need to identify who is most likely to be affected by changes in policy or practice.
The use of fire in rural New Zealand is widespread. While fire use has great benefit to land managers, it also carries risk. New Zealand has over 3000 wildfires per year, of which around 20% are the result of land management burns escaping or becoming out of control.
We appreciate while there are risks, the benefits associated with rural fire are in maintaining productive farming land, as well as maintaining natural ecosystems and managing fuel loads, sterilising soils, and burning off rubbish and crop debris.
Your answers will help to better understand:
how fire is being used,
why people are using fire,
what you consider to be safe practice, and
how fire use impacts on the local landscape and neighbouring communities.
As someone with knowledge on the way fire is being used in rural land management, your views are very important to our research.
We would like your perspectives on the benefits and risks to local communities, business operations and the rural environment from fire use. The answers you provide will help to guide further research around improving the safe, effective and sustainable use of fire as a land management tool and the development of best-practice guidelines.
Your individual responses will remain confidential to the research team.
If you have any questions about this research, or for further information, please contact:
Karen Bayne
Scion Rural Fire Research Group
Ph 03 364 2949 extn 7280
Karen.Bayne@scionresearch.com
Or
Veronica Clifford
Scion Rural Fire Research Group
Ph 03 364 2949 extn 3043
Veronica.clifford@scionresearch.com
Scion invites you to complete a survey on the use of fire in rural land management.
Fire is used in the rural sector by a wide ranging group of people. Because it is such a useful tool in rural areas, we need to provide guidelines for safe and sustainable use. We need to identify who is most likely to be affected by changes in policy or practice.
The use of fire in rural New Zealand is widespread. While fire use has great benefit to land managers, it also carries risk. New Zealand has over 3000 wildfires per year, of which around 20% are the result of land management burns escaping or becoming out of control.
We appreciate while there are risks, the benefits associated with rural fire are in maintaining productive farming land, as well as maintaining natural ecosystems and managing fuel loads, sterilising soils, and burning off rubbish and crop debris.
Your answers will help to better understand:
how fire is being used,
why people are using fire,
what you consider to be safe practice, and
how fire use impacts on the local landscape and neighbouring communities.
As someone with knowledge on the way fire is being used in rural land management, your views are very important to our research.
We would like your perspectives on the benefits and risks to local communities, business operations and the rural environment from fire use. The answers you provide will help to guide further research around improving the safe, effective and sustainable use of fire as a land management tool and the development of best-practice guidelines.
Your individual responses will remain confidential to the research team.
If you have any questions about this research, or for further information, please contact:
Karen Bayne
Scion Rural Fire Research Group
Ph 03 364 2949 extn 7280
Karen.Bayne@scionresearch.com
Or
Veronica Clifford
Scion Rural Fire Research Group
Ph 03 364 2949 extn 3043
Veronica.clifford@scionresearch.com