An overview of fire management on Gregory National Park

Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission, August 1994
The Gregory National Park is located 100 km south of Katherine NT and is managed by the Northern Territory Conservation Commission. An overview is presented of the topography, burning practices, fauna and flora of the Park. The Park has a number of problems which result from its reduced usage by Aboriginal people and pastoralists. There are now fewer fires and greater fuel loads, and fire when it does arrive is a cataclysmic event which affects a large area. A fire management strategy is proposed which endeavours to cope with issues of wildfires, public safety and protection of assets. It will aim to deal with the distance and isolation, to produce a fire regime with a variety of fire types which have a variety of intensities according to vegetation type and timing according to the prevailing climatic conditions.