I'm very happy to announce my latest book, The Fire Commons. This is about the roles that animals play in Indigenous fire practices, challenging concepts of agency and management and revealing intricate ways in which animals engineer landscapes that are made healthy with cultural fire.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Fire-Commons-Cultural-Burning-as-Multispecies-Practice/Baynes-Rock/p/book/9781041163114

#CulturalBurning #Australia #NicheConstruction #Ecology #EcosystemEngineering

Aka “Mosaic burning” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-14/cultural-burning-practices-return-to-yuwibara-country/106440144

#CulturalBurning #firstNations #revegetation #Yuwibara

Monitoring Australia’s tinderbox landscape
New interactive map shows how flammable your part of Australia is right now

"With every update, the tool provides a continent-wide snapshot of how flammable Australia’s vegetation is....The data are also being used in insurance and risk modelling for new developments to quantify the number of “flammable days” in a given region."
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https://theconversation.com/new-interactive-map-shows-how-flammable-your-part-of-australia-is-right-now-268289

MAPS >>
https://maps.dea.ga.gov.au/#share=s-bbkJz9vaB0EHQ0WEBGo99Fu4Gqn
#FossilFuels #deforestation #climate #NSWLogging #dryness #risks #FlammableDays #bushfires #heatwaves #storms #maps #CulturalBurning

Forests, roads and mega fires
"More roads are associated with more fires"

"A problem arises when forest managers look at forests exclusively “through the lens of timber and dollar signs on trees."
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https://grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-prevention-roads-trump-repeal-roadless-rule-usda-forest-service/

Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)
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https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/burn-scars
#LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #roads #bushfires #timber #extractivism #thinning #PrescribedBurns #FireSuppression #megafires #colonialism #CounterNarratives #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalBurning #ecology

The reemergence of cultural burning in southeastern Australia

"Colonisation cleared 95% of these woodlands – Indigenous cultural burning is bringing it back
Indigenous-led cultural burning program in critically endangered woodlands in New South Wales."
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https://theconversation.com/colonisation-cleared-95-of-these-woodlands-indigenous-cultural-burning-is-bringing-it-back-257883
#CulturalBurning #IndigenousFireStewardship #First Nations #culture #heritage #ecosystems #biodiversity #conservation #fire