Right of passage

[Tom dinning]

It’s every boys joy when they see their first real fire. Sounds of sirens add to the experience.
We all wait for the first time he lights his own.

 

[James Lemon]

It’s every boys joy when they see their first real fire. Sounds of sirens add to the experience.
We all wait for the first time he lights his own.

Awesome capture Tom!!

 

[Tom dinning]

Awesome capture Tom!!

Not me. Sorry I forgot to give credit to Simone Reannon, mother of child who is my grandson (One of). She asked not to be named but I reassured her that she wouldn’t have the police calling and charging her with child abuse.
She’s a raw amateur and send the photos to me for editing. Taken on iPhone. Very low quality. I do what I can.

It’s burn-off time here. 83% of the Northern Territory goes under the torch to reduce ground fuel and hence fire intensity. It all happens between April and August. Not a good time to hang out the washing. The locals have been doing it for 100 000 years to encourage food growth and change the landscape. Worked for them, works for us still.

The process is now tracked and monitored from space. How did they manage 100 000 years ago?

 

[James Lemon]

Not me. Sorry I forgot to give credit to Simone Reannon, mother of child who is my grandson (One of). She asked not to be named but I reassured her that she wouldn’t have the police calling and charging her with child abuse.
She’s a raw amateur and send the photos to me for editing. Taken on iPhone. Very low quality. I do what I can.

It’s burn-off time here. 83% of the Northern Territory goes under the torch to reduce ground fuel and hence fire intensity. It all happens between April and August. Not a good time to hang out the washing. The locals have been doing it for 100 000 years to encourage food growth and change the landscape. Worked for them, works for us still.

The process is now tracked and monitored from space. How did they manage 100 000 years ago?

Your fires are under better control now?

 

[Peter Dexter]

!00,000 years? Are you talking about wallabies or people? If the latter more like half that.

 

[Tom dinning]

!00,000 years? Are you talking about wallabies or people? If the latter more like half that.

History: 60,000 years : Working with Indigenous Australians

Working with Indigenous Australians Website

www.workingwithindigenousaustralians.info

 

[Steven Sinski]

that is an incredibly telling image.

 

[Asher Kelman]

The ancients must have been great runners!
How many kangaroos get trapped?

 

[Tom dinning]

People have such a narrow view of Australia, generally.
Kangaroos, wallabies, koalas and Crocodile Dundee types, rough and uncultured.

This type of burning is atypical of the controlled burning of the indigenous population.
The introduction of weeds such as Gamba grass has increased fuel levels. It grows fast, monopolises ecosystems, burns hot.
The fire you see here is gamba grass eradication.
The controlled burning of native forest is slow, cool fires, encouraging new growth and seed germination. Animals have time to move and trees are not destroyed. Irrespective of new technology the indigenous population have been burning in a controlled and methodical way for a long time. It has been so effective the CSIRO have adopted the methodology for current control methods. It’s one of those cases where old methods work, science now knows why and how.

The world’s best fire management system is in northern Australia, and it’s led by Indigenous land managers

The extent of this achievement is staggering, almost incomprehensible in a southern Australia context after the summer’s devastating bushfires.

theconversation.com