Posted on 09/07/2020 4:07:58 PM PDT by libstripper
After years of advocacy work, cultural burning practitioners had a win in Australia when the government of New South Wales, the state hit hardest by last year's catastrophic bushfires, formally accepted a recommendation for an increase in cultural burning as part of their fire management strategy.
An official report issued by the New South Wales government explains how Indigenous land practices can improve fire management in the wake of the deadly bushfires.
As some of the most damaging wildfires in recent memory have raged through California, in the United States, this cultural burning knowledge is becoming more relevant than ever, said Don Hankins, a Plains Miwok fire expert at Chico State University in California.
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Clean up your overgrown mess
Cultural appropriation!
Sounds good but you are dealing with highly vested interests that will make it fail if it is ever implemented. You have the environmentalists, the Agenda 21/30 depopulation plans, firefighter unions, etc.
We white people don’t what to do. It isn’t like we can make fertilizer or wood chips from the wood that needs to be cleared out and sold or anything like that.
“Cultural burning” is a stupid term for wildfire mitigation by eliminating overgrowth close to populations.
you mean with a rake? /sarc
Indigenous people didn’t manage much of anything.
Next we’ll see Newsom out there doing some tribal rain dance.
“”Clean up your overgrown mess””
We don’t even need to do that, nature if allowed to does it for us. It’s all part of God’s Grand Design yet we insist on interfering with it. It wasn’t that long ago that when a fire started it just burned until it was out. The Great Plains were just that, it caught fire so much little more than grass was able to live in it’s environment. Humans for some reason have deemed fire the enemy and attack it on a large scale.
Let Californians log again!
When I was a child in the 1960s I remember fields that were starting to get overgrown being subjected to a “controlled burn.” I observed this a few times, though I was too young to really know how it was being done, except for very carefully and not on a windy day. I also remember being told to stay behind the adults and the burn line which was in front of the adults and not to breath in the smoke because it’s bad for your lunges.
Back at that time there were many fire trails that were dirt surface and maintained with a bulldozer once a year. These had the effect of helping fire crews gain access and also created starting fire lines.
The idea of allowing more lumber to be harvested also would help if the harvesting were done in blocks that were prone to wildfires.
It would not be hard to bring back some of these old practices.
Because some people(liberals) think Aborigine and Indian populations are just the bees knees when it come to anything connected to the land.
California and Australia might not know this but the indigenous people burned down the forests in the American plains and created the treeless, dust-bowl-prone prairies.
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