(go ahead, you know you want to flame me for this) :)
Posted on 01/13/2020 7:11:27 PM PST by BenLurkin
Aboriginal people had a deep knowledge of the land, said historian Bill Gammage, an emeritus professor at Australian National University who studies Australian and Aboriginal history. They can feel the grass and know if it would burn well; they knew what types of fires to burn for what types of land, how long to burn, and how frequently.
Aboriginal techniques are based in part on fire prevention: ridding the land of fuel, like debris, scrub, undergrowth and certain grasses. The fuel alights easily, which allows for more intense flames that are harder to fight.
The Aboriginal people would set small-scale fires that weren't too intense and clear the land of the extra debris. The smaller intensity fires would lessen the impact on the insects and animals occupying the land, too, as well as protect the trees and the canopy.
Setting smaller, low-intensity fires to prevent larger bushfires may sound like common sense. In practice, though, it's really hard.
It comes down to knowledge, Gammage said. When do you a start a fire? What time of the year? What time of day? How long you want it to burn? What plants are there? What's the weather like — is there a drought like now?
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I know the practice isn't new. What's 'new' is 'the evil white man' wants to do it.
When non-whites do it it's considered 'a traditional practice' and CNN and the NYT praise them for their 'ancient wisdom'.
The aboriginals used fire for the same purpose the raptors did and still do; it was a hunting technique. As the birds were here long before aboriginal man arrived on the continent, it was man who learned from the birds.
Aboriginal people raped and murdered.
They were so smarter than us modern dummies.
Wow I just looked that up, that’s amazing.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/australian-raptors-start-fires-to-flush-out-prey
Supposedly it’s the only thing other than man ever observed to use fire as a tool, picking up a burning twig and flying to an unburned area and dropping it.
Freegards
NYT & CNN are Racist Supremacists.
Brown race uber alles.
(go ahead, you know you want to flame me for this) :)
Tim Flannery wrote the ‘Future Eaters’ in the early 90’s. He laid the demise of Megafauna in Australia at the feet of human arrivals ie Abioriginals. Their use of fire the primary cause. He copped a lot of heat from the ‘deification of the native’ industry and he later segued into the climate change religion. The notion that beknighted aboriginals snuffed out loads of rare and unique animals was too much for the ‘aboriginals can do no wrong’ crowd
Common sense and the accumulated lessons of human experience are so backward. We need the kind of advanced thinking produced by Georgetown Masters of Public Administration to solve the serious problems facing modern society. Besides, they need good government jobs because otherwise they are useless.
if the aboriginal flag is any indication, there were at least pretty big fires. Rose Fletcher took this photo - aboriginal flag contrasted in upper right:
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/01/04/23/22995648-0-image-a-8_1578179366327.jpg
I’m sure that would be illegal today.
“What’s ‘new’ is ‘the evil white man’ wants to do it.”
The gist of the article that I got out of it was an effort by CNN for promoting climate change, and an overall change in the thought process of how cities should be built and the way people should think. And since the way the backfires were being used is too much of an effort and too expensive, the white man, as you call them, is destined to fail and with additional climate change, it’ll get worse.
My point was to the readers was that the American Indian has been on the continent for around 15K years and has figured out how the process is done just like the Aborigines in their 50K in Australia. So it isn’t a complex process if people without an education other than nature can figure it out, But the politicians in California can’t.
rwood
lol
Yeah, Many sane people with knowledge of how to prevent these fires have said the same thing in this country.
They must be descendants of the native aborigines. :)
https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/flint-hills-firestick/10360
Lots of burning grass in the springtime in the Flint Hills.
Yeah.
It’s just so aggravating to see the media try so hard to try and point to a cultish natavist worship in all things because “modern thinking is rubbish” in their eyes.
Well they can stop using Every and Any invention created by white guys in the past several hundred years.
But then how the hell would they be able to put articles online?
Couldn’t use a printing press either.
Or use planes, trains or automobiles.
or phones.
Or....
What fricking morons
They can bang two stones together, make bone flutes, and animal skin drums.
But then it’d look like “Berkeley Days”.
LOL!
Most of the fires were set by firebugs, plus the Aussies are likely infected with the same forest management disease that California has.
The difference in this area, SOMETIMES, between western societies and the natives they settled among is the natives had a long history in the land on their side. Their “being smarter” on some things had been really more that they had learned more than new westerners because the natives had been observing and learning about their land for centuries. Their “smarts” was in the form of accumulated knowledge passed on for generations. That that was passed on was superior in some instances to what the settlers had to get to know by their own experience.
Though in truth some westerners either by instinct of their own, or as quick observers, have also understood that good land management REQUIRES the use of controlled burns and active forest management - not just “leaving everything to nature”.
The modern “environmental” movement, thinking it knew everything better than everyone else, led in deconstructing good land management and forestry management operations in their “back to nature” quest. It’s been a disaster, particularly when it comes to wild fires.
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