Natural History

Fire-stick farming

Fire-stick farming, also known as cool burning, is a cultural burning practice whereby Aboriginal Australians regularly use fire to burn vegetation, a management technique which has been utilized for thousands of years. There are a number of purposes for doing this special type of controlled burning, including to facilitate hunting, to change the composition of plant and animal species in an area, weed control, hazard reduction, and increase of biodiversity. While it had been discontinued in many parts of Australia, it has been reintroduced in the 21st century by the teachings of custodians from areas where the practice is extant in continuous unbroken tradition such as the Noongar people's cold fire.

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See also

• ▸Johann Hermann
• ▸C. F. Martin & Company
• ▸European hare

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