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SIP cover
Left: Vale Torto catchment. Right: Remote sensing image of Vale Torto. The catchment boundaries are marked by the slanting “D-shaped” area occupying most of the centre and right of the image.

Vale Torto catchment
Sediment fence installed in the Vale Torto catchment<br>

Sediment fence
Left: Bottles for automatically sampling water and suspended sediment during storm events. Right: Half oil drum with v-notch for measuring overland flow and soil loss from firebreak/ road in Vale Torto catchment. Overland flow is directed from upper left towards the barrel guided by heavy-duty plastic partly buried beneath gravel and finer sediment on the road.<br><br>

Water and sediment sampling
Camelo wildfire-affected scrub site, July 2008<br>

Camelo wildfire-affected scrub
Pre-fire remote-sensing image of the Hombres site. Note that there is a variety of vegetation, ranging from scrub to eucalyptus and pine<br>

Pre-fire image of Hombres site
Fire chief briefing the team before the fire. © Hans de Herder, 2009<br />

Briefing
Valtorto (Góis, Portugal) catchment while burning a fire line downslope. © Simon Drooger, 2009

Fire line
Prescribed fire diagram illustrating the prescribed fire procedure. © ESAC 2009

Illustration of fire procedure
Fire progression during a fire. © Erik Slingerland, 2009

Fire progression
Forest fire-fighters testing the equipment before the prescribed fire. © Hans de Herder, 2009

Testing equipment
Informal discussions with local stakeholders. © UA, 2009

Informal discussions
Implementation of the Primary Strip Network System for Fuel Management. © UA, 2009

Implementation of fuel management system
© UA, 2009

Field work
Primary Strip Network System for Fuel Management: mitigation strip © UA, 2009

Fire mitigation strip
© UA, 2009

More field work
© UA, 2009

Preventative forestry measures

Poster Macao

Poster Gois
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