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While the property is potentially vulnerable to bushfires, there has not been a bushfire in the area for over a century.
The property is also vulnerable by reason of the types of trees and shrubs in the heritage garden. The entire property requires constant bushfire hazard reduction and this has been incorporated in the management program. The Council and Bushfire Service guidelines for this are used as a guide for appropriate action.
To ensure adequate supplies of water for bushfire control, a bore has been sunk in the northern garden area to act as a safety precaution in the event that the dam resources were exhausted in supporting community protection. This would be available to supplement the water stored in the ponds on the Gordon Creek and lying in the wider parts of The Braes Creek all of which would be available for firefighting.
Native fauna is abundant in this area. The bird population on the property is extensive. We do not always welcome the growing white cockatoo population which has migrated from the drought stricken west. They damage young plants of all types.
Bandicoots make holes in the lawn looking for grubs and beetles. Our gardens are regularly dug up by foxes following the use of blood and bone and manures.
The frog and yabbie population in the creeks are active and also appear to be breeding well. Funnel web spiders are ever present.
In 1996, the main areas of serious erosion were in the creeks themselves.
The banks were not stable and were damaged by run-off from various parts of the higher ground (within and beyond the property).
