Murray Catchment CMA
The Murray catchment in southern NSW covers an area of around 42,000 km2 across a range of landscapes from steep alpine slopes in the east, to riverine floodplains and grasslands in the west. Land and water resources within the Murray catchment support a range of agricultural enterprises including dryland cropping, irrigation, grazing and horticulture. The Murray River forms the NSW-Victorian border for 1,880 km and forms a major arm of the 300,000 square kilometer Murray-Darling Basin Find us here: murray.cma.nsw.gov.au
The following materials have been designed to provide land and fire managers, landholders and communities with regionally specific information about vegetation communities, fire ecology and fire management for the Murray Catchment CMA, including:
Resources for this region
Ecological Resources
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Fire and Vegetation of the Murray [1927 KB]
A literature review of fire and vegetation for the Murray region, M.S. Graham, P. Watson, & D. Tierney, 2015
15th October 2015 -
Managing fire on your property_Murray region [1668 KB]
Developed specifically for landholders in the Murray region, this booklet provides an introduction to how fire can be managed for healthy productive landscapes and also presents a framework for incorporating fire into property management planning.
6th July 2015
Statewide Resources
Fact Sheets
- Fuel Fact Sheet 1: Fire Behaviour 2024 [258 KB]
- Fuel Fact Sheet 1: Fuel Accumulation 2024 [249 KB]
- Fact Sheet: The Burning Approval Process 2023 [6332 KB]
- Fact sheet: Managing Land Post-Fire [299 KB]
- Fact sheet: Protecting Our Hollows [4170 KB]
- Fact Sheet: Fire, vegetation and climate change in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. [370 KB]
- Fact Sheet: Understanding how fire behaves [375 KB]
General
- Hotspots Workshop 2 - Participate in a planned burn [4037 KB]
- Hotspots Workshop 1 - Producing a Property Fire Management Plan 2023 [6918 KB]
- OEH Media Release: REKINDLED CULTURAL BURN SPARKS HOPE FOR RECOVERY OF RARE ORCHID [209 KB]
- Information Apps for Landholders - Android [487 KB]
- Information Apps for Landholders - Apple [916 KB]
- Hotspots Fire Project Brochure [6215 KB]
- Evaluation for Hotspots Fire Project - August 2014 [1542 KB]
- Bush Fire CRC Firenote Issue 116 [2069 KB]
- Rural Weekly Bungawalbin Hotspots Workshop [889 KB]