Level 1

What happens after a bush fire?
Find out by exploring the gallery below.

Ingenious ways to recover

Indigenous fire methods may be able to help with the recovery of the landscape after a bush fire.

A massive 3.9 million hectares of NSW was burned by bush fires between September 2019 and January 2020.

MEDIA

IMAGINE

What happens after a bush fire in the landscape? How does the land and vegetation recover?
What are the greatest threats to a healthy recovery?

Hey Firestormers!

Indigenous fire practitioners can bring the land back to life after a bush fire.

Firestormer
  • Fire experiences,
  • Recover,
  • Place,
  • Re-building after a fire

MORE

Actor Ben Lawson, who has starred in Modern Family, Firefly Lane, 13 Reasons Why, wrote this poem in Los Angeles where he has lived since 2008, as a love letter to his burning homeland.
On January 10, the NSW RFS produced fire prediction maps for all the active firegrounds.
#1 FACT

Invasive natives and weeds can take over in the period after a bush fire - creating more bush fire hazards for the future, and crowding out the fire-resistant natives.