Mastodawn

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

#CulturalBurning #firstNations #revegetation #Yuwibara

'Sleeping' Indigenous burning technique awakens in Cape Hillsborough

A practice that has helped care for land for more than 60,000 years returns to Yuwibara Country in north Queensland.

BellingenNSW Nov 10

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

New interactive map shows how flammable your part of Australia is right now

As Australia faces longer, more erratic fire seasons, tools like this may prove essential for staying one step ahead of the flames.

The Conversation

The-14 Jul 28, 2025

Dealing with wildfires requires a whole-of-society approach
#Canada #Environment #Wildfires #FireResilience #ClimateChange #BeneficialFire #CulturalBurning #IndigenousKnowledge #FireSmart #CommunitySafety #EcoResilience #WildlandUrbanInterface
https://the-14.com/dealing-with-wildfires-requires-a-whole-of-society-approach/

Marcus Baynes-Rock Jul 22, 2025

Cultural Burning around the Stringybarks and Turpentines in steep terrain. Confidence
#thicktrunktuesday #Indigenous #CulturalBurning #CulturalAnthropology #Australia #Forest #Ecology

The-14 Jul 21, 2025

Wildfires spark demand for Indigenous fire stewardship
#IndigenousPeoples #KahshoGotinecommunity #FortGoodHope #NWT #FirstNations #Canada #Wildfires #FireSovereignty #IndigenousFireStewardship #ClimateChange #CulturalBurning #LandProtection
https://the-14.com/wildfires-spark-demand-for-indigenous-fire-stewardship/

Wildfires spark demand for Indigenous fire stewardship | The-14

As wildfires worsen, Indigenous Guardians call for fire sovereignty & year-round support to lead prevention, protection & cultural burning on their territories.

The-14 Pictures

Marcus Baynes-Rock Jul 17, 2025

Cultural burn on the mid north coast today. This guy was very chill
#culturalburning #ecology #Australia #fire #habitat

BellingenNSW Jun 30, 2025

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 Trump administration claims roads in forests prevent wildfires. Researchers disagree.

Experts say repealing the "Roadless Rule" won't help stop fires, but it will help loggers.

Grist

Marcus Baynes-Rock Jun 25, 2025

We had a smoking ceremony at the cultural fire and animals workshop this week and look who showed up...
#CulturalBurning #ecology #animals #eagle

BellingenNSW Jun 17, 2025

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

Colonisation cleared 95% of these woodlands – Indigenous cultural burning is bringing it back

New research shows how Western science can support cultural burning to deliver benefits across cultures – as well as for nature.

The Conversation

Marcus Baynes-Rock Jun 16, 2025

Cultural Burning as Resistance to Colonisation. "this conflict represents not just a threat to cultural burning, but to capitalism itself as the land rapidly diminishes the conditions needed for capitalism’s existence"
#CulturalBurning #Fire #Ecology #Capitalism
https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2025.2520305