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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #culturalburning, aggregated by home.social.

  1. 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."
    >>
    theconversation.com/new-intera

    MAPS >>
    maps.dea.ga.gov.au/#share=s-bb
    #FossilFuels #deforestation #climate #NSWLogging #dryness #risks #FlammableDays #bushfires #heatwaves #storms #maps #CulturalBurning

  2. 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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    grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-p

    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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    osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/
    #LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #roads #bushfires #timber #extractivism #thinning #PrescribedBurns #FireSuppression #megafires #colonialism #CounterNarratives #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalBurning #ecology

  3. 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."
    >>
    grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-p

    Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)
    >>
    osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/
    #LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #roads #bushfires #timber #extractivism #thinning #PrescribedBurns #FireSuppression #megafires #colonialism #CounterNarratives #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalBurning #ecology

  4. 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."
    >>
    grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-p

    Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)
    >>
    osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/
    #LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #roads #bushfires #timber #extractivism #thinning #PrescribedBurns #FireSuppression #megafires #colonialism #CounterNarratives #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalBurning #ecology

  5. 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."
    >>
    grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-p

    Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)
    >>
    osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/
    #LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #roads #bushfires #timber #extractivism #thinning #PrescribedBurns #FireSuppression #megafires #colonialism #CounterNarratives #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalBurning #ecology

  6. 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."
    >>
    grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-p

    Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)
    >>
    osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/
    #LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #roads #bushfires #timber #extractivism #thinning #PrescribedBurns #FireSuppression #megafires #colonialism #CounterNarratives #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalBurning #ecology

  7. 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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    theconversation.com/colonisati
    #CulturalBurning #IndigenousFireStewardship #First Nations #culture #heritage #ecosystems #biodiversity #conservation #fire

  8. 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."
    >>
    theconversation.com/colonisati
    #CulturalBurning #IndigenousFireStewardship #First Nations #culture #heritage #ecosystems #biodiversity #conservation #fire

  9. 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."
    >>
    theconversation.com/colonisati
    #CulturalBurning #IndigenousFireStewardship #First Nations #culture #heritage #ecosystems #biodiversity #conservation #fire

  10. 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."
    >>
    theconversation.com/colonisati
    #CulturalBurning #IndigenousFireStewardship #First Nations #culture #heritage #ecosystems #biodiversity #conservation #fire

  11. 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."
    >>
    theconversation.com/colonisati
    #CulturalBurning #IndigenousFireStewardship #First Nations #culture #heritage #ecosystems #biodiversity #conservation #fire

  12. Dear Friends,
    Awareness of value of controlled/cultural burns in forestlands continues to rise. Long Island newspaper, Newsday, reports on the fire ecology of Long Island's unique Pine Barrens in the aftermath of small West Hampton Pines Fire. Byline: Tracy Tullis
    newsday.com/long-island/enviro

    #ClimateDiary #ControlledBurns #CulturalBurning #Forestry #FireEcosystems

  13. Are industrial scale burns incinerating Australian biodiversity?

    "The “industrial” scale burns which are designed to “process landscapes as efficiently as possible” are known to frequently kill – in 2022, Victorian authorities accidentally incinerated several koalas when they set a forest alight, and evidence suggests fires set in Tasmania have killed endangered devils."

    "A complete “rethink” of fire management practices by state authorities" is needed.
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    au.news.yahoo.com/rare-aussie-

    Driscoll, D.A., Macdonald, K.J., Gibson, R.K. et al. Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires. Nature (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-081
    #Biodiversity #bushfires #fires #megafires #PyroConvectiveStorms #incineration #pileburning #sprawl #destruction #wildlife #birds #GlossyBlackCockatoos #koalas #CulturalBurning #ExtinctionCrisis #FossilFuels

  14. "Fire-resilient landscapes” and “fire-adapted communities” through biocultural restoration as a fire risk mitigation strategy.

    A clear-eyed view on historic harms by settler societies: Settler transition to large-scale agriculture (plantations) transformed ecohydrological conditions and introduced weeds. The neglected land and extractive tourism practices drive increases in fire risks.

    "We argue that decolonizing postplantation landscapes through the restoration and reconnection of people to land will not only help prevent future catastrophic fires, but also address social and environmental inequities.The connections of colonialism to contemporary extreme fire regimes are not unique to Hawaiʻi. The dispossession of Indigenous communities worldwide has suppressed cultural burning and altered fire regimes that support the production of food and material culture."
    >>
    On the anniversary of the Maui fires, a call for Indigenous land care to mitigate future disasters, D. Nākoa Farrant et al
    pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401
    #bushfires #fires #colonialism #SettlerSociety #extractivism #water #plantations #SettlerSocieties #unsustainability #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousKnowledge #BioculturalRestoration #CulturalBurning #restoration

  15. "Fire-resilient landscapes” and “fire-adapted communities” through biocultural restoration as a fire risk mitigation strategy.

    A clear-eyed view on historic harms by settler societies: Settler transition to large-scale agriculture (plantations) transformed ecohydrological conditions and introduced weeds. The neglected land and extractive tourism practices drive increases in fire risks.

    "We argue that decolonizing postplantation landscapes through the restoration and reconnection of people to land will not only help prevent future catastrophic fires, but also address social and environmental inequities.The connections of colonialism to contemporary extreme fire regimes are not unique to Hawaiʻi. The dispossession of Indigenous communities worldwide has suppressed cultural burning and altered fire regimes that support the production of food and material culture."
    >>
    On the anniversary of the Maui fires, a call for Indigenous land care to mitigate future disasters, D. Nākoa Farrant et al
    pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401
    #bushfires #fires #colonialism #SettlerSociety #extractivism #water #plantations #SettlerSocieties #unsustainability #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousKnowledge #BioculturalRestoration #CulturalBurning #restoration

  16. "Fire-resilient landscapes” and “fire-adapted communities” through biocultural restoration as a fire risk mitigation strategy.

    A clear-eyed view on historic harms by settler societies: Settler transition to large-scale agriculture (plantations) transformed ecohydrological conditions and introduced weeds. The neglected land and extractive tourism practices drive increases in fire risks.

    "We argue that decolonizing postplantation landscapes through the restoration and reconnection of people to land will not only help prevent future catastrophic fires, but also address social and environmental inequities.The connections of colonialism to contemporary extreme fire regimes are not unique to Hawaiʻi. The dispossession of Indigenous communities worldwide has suppressed cultural burning and altered fire regimes that support the production of food and material culture."
    >>
    On the anniversary of the Maui fires, a call for Indigenous land care to mitigate future disasters, D. Nākoa Farrant et al
    pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401
    #bushfires #fires #colonialism #SettlerSociety #extractivism #water #plantations #SettlerSocieties #unsustainability #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousKnowledge #BioculturalRestoration #CulturalBurning #restoration

  17. "Fire-resilient landscapes” and “fire-adapted communities” through biocultural restoration as a fire risk mitigation strategy.

    A clear-eyed view on historic harms by settler societies: Settler transition to large-scale agriculture (plantations) transformed ecohydrological conditions and introduced weeds. The neglected land and extractive tourism practices drive increases in fire risks.

    "We argue that decolonizing postplantation landscapes through the restoration and reconnection of people to land will not only help prevent future catastrophic fires, but also address social and environmental inequities.The connections of colonialism to contemporary extreme fire regimes are not unique to Hawaiʻi. The dispossession of Indigenous communities worldwide has suppressed cultural burning and altered fire regimes that support the production of food and material culture."
    >>
    On the anniversary of the Maui fires, a call for Indigenous land care to mitigate future disasters, D. Nākoa Farrant et al
    pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401
    #bushfires #fires #colonialism #SettlerSociety #extractivism #water #plantations #SettlerSocieties #unsustainability #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousKnowledge #BioculturalRestoration #CulturalBurning #restoration

  18. "Fire-resilient landscapes” and “fire-adapted communities” through biocultural restoration as a fire risk mitigation strategy.

    A clear-eyed view on historic harms by settler societies: Settler transition to large-scale agriculture (plantations) transformed ecohydrological conditions and introduced weeds. The neglected land and extractive tourism practices drive increases in fire risks.

    "We argue that decolonizing postplantation landscapes through the restoration and reconnection of people to land will not only help prevent future catastrophic fires, but also address social and environmental inequities.The connections of colonialism to contemporary extreme fire regimes are not unique to Hawaiʻi. The dispossession of Indigenous communities worldwide has suppressed cultural burning and altered fire regimes that support the production of food and material culture."
    >>
    On the anniversary of the Maui fires, a call for Indigenous land care to mitigate future disasters, D. Nākoa Farrant et al
    pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401
    #bushfires #fires #colonialism #SettlerSociety #extractivism #water #plantations #SettlerSocieties #unsustainability #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousKnowledge #BioculturalRestoration #CulturalBurning #restoration

  19. Lessons from another settler society about current fire practices, land management and logging practices: With more good fire comes less feral fire.

    "To understand modern fire policy in California requires an analysis of California’s settler attitude toward the more-than-human world. This attitude relies heavily on the invented concepts embedded in the words nature and wilderness."

    “The white man sure ruined this country, it’s turned back to wilderness.”
    Sierra Miwok elder James Rust, quoted by M. Kat Anderson

    Excerpts of The State of Fire: Why California Burns by Obi Kaufmann. Heyday Books, in Los Angeles Review of Books September 15, 2024
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    lareviewofbooks.org/article/wh
    #bushfires #CulturalBurning #FossilFuels #MegaFires #gigafire #arson #ClimateBreakdown #Cryosphere #droughts #smoke #loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #FCNSW #harm #WUI #sprawl #cars #extractivism #denial #IndigenousPeoples #ecosystems #biodiversity #SettlerSociety #mindset #BelloBook

  20. As summer heat arrives in August and they are expanding fossil fuels.
    It is time to be prepared for mega fires in Australia.

    "Australia’s unprecedented bushfires of 2019 to 2020 burned an area larger than the United Kingdom, killed at least 33 people, killed or displaced close to 3 billion animals, and destroyed the habitats of more than 500 species."

    For 60,000 Years, Australia’s First Nations Have Put Fire to Good Use.
    Watch “Burnt Country”, Kirsten Slemint's documentary on cultural burning in Australia.
    >>
    e360.yale.edu/features/2024-fi
    #bushfires #IndigenousBurning #CulturalBurning #FossilFuels #MegaFires #ExtremeHeat #biodiversity #koalas #extinction #Australia

  21. Been a while since the last PSA that we're running an #instance here at regenerate.social for practicioners and active researchers of #Regenerative methods like #NoTill, #NoDig, #HolisticGrazing, #RotationalGrazing, #Permaculture, #CulturalBurning, #CarbonFarming, #SustainableForestry, #Reforestation, and more!

    Come on over if that's you!

    Please boost so that other regen people can find us :)

    #RegenAg #RegenerativeAg #RegenerativeAgriculture

  22. Seems like a good moment to send the reminder that we're running an #instance here at regenerate.social for practicioners and active researchers of #Regenerative methods like #NoTill, #NoDig, #HolisticGrazing, #RotationalGrazing, #Permaculture, #CulturalBurning, #CarbonFarming, #SustainableForestry, #Reforestation, and more!

    Come on over if that's you!

    Please boost so that other regen people can find us :)

    #RegenAg #RegenerativeAg #RegenerativeAgriculture

  23. Here is the seasonal reminder that we're running an #instance here at regenerate.social for practicioners and active researchers of #Regenerative methods like #NoTill, #NoDig, #HolisticGrazing, #RotationalGrazing, #Permaculture, #CulturalBurning, #CarbonFarming, #SustainableForestry, #Reforestation, and more!

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  24. I attended an amazing symposium today, put on by some of our local tribes. Tons of people came.
    The Tribal Fire Council is generously offering to teach the community at large, cultural fire practices, and how we start working as a community to make our communities fire safe, while regenerating cultural plant communities, wild foods for humans and wildlife. It is the most hope I've had for our community in a long, long, time. I've been working on my own native food forest, but often feel like I'm floundering because information is not always easily come by. Information on species utilized is available, but there's a huge gap in knowledge on how to actually care for stands, how to burn, harvest, process, cook, store, etc.
    A huge door has just opened. I had no idea how extensive tarweeds like madia were utilized. The seeds are high protein and comparable to almonds in nutritional value. Madia can be made into a high quality oil.
    I have a few big stands of madia, but historical stands filled vast meadows. I'm definitely going to start thinking bigger.
    Photo: Madia Eleganse northern CA.
    #Tarweed
    #Madia
    #Culturalburning #PrescribedBurn
    #FoodForests
    #CommunityKnowledge
    #IndigenousKnowledge

  25. Here comes the regular reminder that we're running an #instance here at regenerate.social for practicioners and active researchers of #Regenerative methods like #NoTill, #NoDig, #HolisticGrazing, #RotationalGrazing, #Permaculture, #CulturalBurning, #CarbonFarming, #SustainableForestry, and more!

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