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Country, future fire, future farming, Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe ; edited by Margo Neale

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Country, future fire, future farming, Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe ; edited by Margo Neale

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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mapsillustrations

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index present

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non fiction

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe ; edited by Margo Neale

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future fire, future farming

Summary

For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions. Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe demonstrate how Aboriginal people cultivated the land through manipulation of water flows, vegetation and firestick practice. Not solely hunters and gatherers, the First Australians also farmed and stored food. They employed complex seasonal fire programs that protected Country and animals alike. In doing so, they avoided the killer fires that we fear today. Country: Future Fire, Future Farming highlights the consequences of ignoring this deep history and living in unsustainable ways. It details the remarkable agricultural and land-care techniques of First Nations peoples and shows how such practices are needed now more than ever

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