The CD was produced by Rohan Fisher and the project supported by Meat & Livestock Australia, Natural Heritage Trust and NT Department of Business, Industry & Development.

Price: $10

The Tropical Savannas CRC and the Bushfire Council of the NT have released a CD–ROM on fire management in the VRD and Sturt Plateau region.

It features the following sections:

• an introduction and frequently-asked questions about managing fire in the region.
  
• a section on how to use information from satellites: to locate “hotspots” where fires are actually burning over the last few hours; to map out where fires have burnt over the last few weeks and months; and to monitor the greenness of grassy fuel. Links to useful websites for obtaining satellite information are given.
  
• the fire histories of a number of locations in the VRD.
  
• a description of fuel dynamics that shows how the fire intensity depends on the fuel load in the pasture, and how the flammability or “greenness” of grassy fuel varies with time of year and type of country, this section also contains a PDF of a Fuel Curing Guide for the VRD/Sturt Plateau.
  
• a guide to how fire can be used to manage grazing and pasture condition as well as how it can be used to manage woody weeds.
  
• a PDF of fire researcher Rodd Dyer’s thesis Fire and vegetation management in pasture lands of the Victoria River District, Northern Territory.
  
• case-studies of the costs and benefits of fire management from five stations in the region.
  
• summaries of the effect of different fire patterns on native plant and native animal communities.
  
• excerpts from the book Savanna Burning and Darrell Lewis' study of landscape change in the VRD, Slower than the Eye can See.
  

The disk features animations, videos and links to websites to make the research findings easier to understand.

The CD was produced by Rohan Fisher and the project was supported by Meat &  Livestock Australia, the Natural Heritage Trust and the NT Department of Business, Industry &  Development.