#culturalburning — Public Fediverse posts

"Prior to colonisation “this was a cared for and managed landscape."

* "‘Catastrophic wildfire loop’ after colonisation left parts of Australia more at risk from bushfires, study finds. Researchers found the shift from open woodland to dense forest after 1788 led to more intense fires, consistent with loss of cultural burning practices." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/08/colonisation-wildfire-loop-australia-climate-bushfires

* Australia’s current wildfire crisis linked to colonial land-use change
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11097-z
#Bushfires #fires #CulturalBurning #care #IndigenousKnowledge #FirstNationPeoples #SettlerSociety #EuropeanColonisation #weeds #FossilFuels #climate #ecosystems #degradation #loss #WildfireCrisis

Indigenous rangers among finalists for Prince William’s Earthshot Prize

Indigenous rangers responsible for one of the largest cultural burning programs in the world have been named finalists…
#NewsBeep #News #Australia #AU #culturalburning #desertrangers #Earthshot #IndigenousDesertAlliance #JasonKnauf #PrinceWilliam #SamMurray #SamanthaMurray
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/896524/

3 ways to improve Canada’s wildfire advisory capacity
#Canada #Environment #Wildfires #WildfirePreparedness #Ontario #ClimateChange #Agriculture #Farms #Farmers #CulturalBurning #Farming #IndigenousKnowledge #Misinformation #ClimateResilience
#SmokePollution
https://the-14.com/3-ways-to-improve-canadas-wildfire-advisory-capacity/

Traces of grass used in Indigenous rituals 25,000 years ago unearthed in Victorian cave

For thousands of years, GunaiKurnai ancestors burnt grasses inside a cave in Eastern Victoria, potentially to undertake magic,…
#NewsBeep #News #Australia #aboriginalaustralian #Aboriginalrituals #AU #cloggscave #culturalburning #Culture #fireburningrituals #GunaiKurnai #indigenousaustralians #indigenousculture #Indigneousrituals #magic #ritual
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/815916/

Traces of grass used in Indigenous rituals 25,000 years ago unearthed in Victorian cave

For thousands of years, GunaiKurnai ancestors burnt grasses inside a cave in Eastern Victoria, potentially to undertake magic,…
#Australia #aboriginalaustralian #Aboriginalrituals #AU #Austrlia #cloggscave #culturalburning #culture #fireburningrituals #GunaiKurnai #IndigenousAustralians #Indigenousculture #Indigneousrituals #magic #ritual
https://www.europesays.com/australia/55791/

https://www.europesays.com/3146253/ Traces of grass used in Indigenous rituals 25,000 years ago unearthed in Victorian cave #AboriginalAustralian #AboriginalRituals #australia #CloggsCave #CulturalBurning #Culture #FireBurningRituals #GunaiKurnai #IndigenousAustralians #IndigenousCulture #IndigneousRituals #magic #ritual

Does anyone have some good resources on indigenous cultural burning practices? I'm hoping to add some links to the wildfire doc.

Looking for explanations of what it is, examples, and ways people (especially settlers) can support cultural burning practices (e.g., politicians or government officials we can write letters to, legislation we can advocate for, organizations or indigenous groups or leaders we can support, other actions we can take).

Boosts and quotes welcome!

#FirstNations #Indigenous #IndigenousPeoples #TurtleIsland #CulturalBurning #NativeAmerican #LandBack

I'm very happy to announce my latest book, The Fire Commons. This is about the roles that animals play in Indigenous fire practices, challenging concepts of agency and management and revealing intricate ways in which animals engineer landscapes that are made healthy with cultural fire.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Fire-Commons-Cultural-Burning-as-Multispecies-Practice/Baynes-Rock/p/book/9781041163114

#CulturalBurning #Australia #NicheConstruction #Ecology #EcosystemEngineering

Aka “Mosaic burning” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-14/cultural-burning-practices-return-to-yuwibara-country/106440144

#CulturalBurning #firstNations #revegetation #Yuwibara

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."
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https://theconversation.com/new-interactive-map-shows-how-flammable-your-part-of-australia-is-right-now-268289

MAPS >>
https://maps.dea.ga.gov.au/#share=s-bbkJz9vaB0EHQ0WEBGo99Fu4Gqn
#FossilFuels #deforestation #climate #NSWLogging #dryness #risks #FlammableDays #bushfires #heatwaves #storms #maps #CulturalBurning

Dealing with wildfires requires a whole-of-society approach
#Canada #Environment #Wildfires #FireResilience #ClimateChange #BeneficialFire #CulturalBurning #IndigenousKnowledge #FireSmart #CommunitySafety #EcoResilience #WildlandUrbanInterface
https://the-14.com/dealing-with-wildfires-requires-a-whole-of-society-approach/

Cultural Burning around the Stringybarks and Turpentines in steep terrain. Confidence
#thicktrunktuesday #Indigenous #CulturalBurning #CulturalAnthropology #Australia #Forest #Ecology

Wildfires spark demand for Indigenous fire stewardship
#IndigenousPeoples #KahshoGotinecommunity #FortGoodHope #NWT #FirstNations #Canada #Wildfires #FireSovereignty #IndigenousFireStewardship #ClimateChange #CulturalBurning #LandProtection
https://the-14.com/wildfires-spark-demand-for-indigenous-fire-stewardship/

Cultural burn on the mid north coast today. This guy was very chill
#culturalburning #ecology #Australia #fire #habitat

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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https://grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-prevention-roads-trump-repeal-roadless-rule-usda-forest-service/

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

We had a smoking ceremony at the cultural fire and animals workshop this week and look who showed up...
#CulturalBurning #ecology #animals #eagle

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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https://theconversation.com/colonisation-cleared-95-of-these-woodlands-indigenous-cultural-burning-is-bringing-it-back-257883
#CulturalBurning #IndigenousFireStewardship #First Nations #culture #heritage #ecosystems #biodiversity #conservation #fire

Cultural Burning as Resistance to Colonisation. "this conflict represents not just a threat to cultural burning, but to capitalism itself as the land rapidly diminishes the conditions needed for capitalism’s existence"
#CulturalBurning #Fire #Ecology #Capitalism
https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2025.2520305

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
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/environment/fires-suffolk-pine-barrens-hj29k448?utm_medium=web_share_api&utm_campaign=web_share_api

#ClimateDiary #ControlledBurns #CulturalBurning #Forestry #FireEcosystems

My article on animals and cultural burning available open access
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-024-00557-7
#ecology #animals #culturalburning #Australia

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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https://au.news.yahoo.com/rare-aussie-bird-under-threat-over-common-tree-practice-catastrophic-061116403.html

Driscoll, D.A., Macdonald, K.J., Gibson, R.K. et al. Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08174-6
#Biodiversity #bushfires #fires #megafires #PyroConvectiveStorms #incineration #pileburning #sprawl #destruction #wildlife #birds #GlossyBlackCockatoos #koalas #CulturalBurning #ExtinctionCrisis #FossilFuels

"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."
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On the anniversary of the Maui fires, a call for Indigenous land care to mitigate future disasters, D. Nākoa Farrant et al
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401045121
#bushfires #fires #colonialism #SettlerSociety #extractivism #water #plantations #SettlerSocieties #unsustainability #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousKnowledge #BioculturalRestoration #CulturalBurning #restoration

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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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-then-is-natural/
#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

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.
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https://e360.yale.edu/features/2024-film-contest-second-place-australia-indigenous-fire
#bushfires #IndigenousBurning #CulturalBurning #FossilFuels #MegaFires #ExtremeHeat #biodiversity #koalas #extinction #Australia

Look at the bandicoot digging pits in this swamp-oak forest after a cultural burn! They're fanatical little gardeners
#fungiFriends #Australia #Culturalburning

Whoever is right, it’s a no brainer that reducing the amount of combustible materials on the floor and at low to mid level in the bush is a good idea.
#culturalburning #climatechange

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/30/black-summer-fires-a-veteran-ecologist-says-australias-bushfire-modelling-is-flawed-others-disagree?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Been a while since the last PSA that we're running an #instance here at https://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!

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"Cardinal Christianson said that allowing communities to restore their cultural burning practices is a simple solution to reducing risk. But because of historical and colonial policies and laws, there are barriers. The hope now is that governments in Canada will listen."

On #CulturalBurning and other prescribed burning. #Wildfire https://globalnews.ca/news/9993619/canada-record-wildfire-season-frontlines/

Global News BC: How to manage Canada’s ‘unprecedented’ wildfires before they start https://globalnews.ca/news/9993619/canada-record-wildfire-season-frontlines/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #WildfireFirefighters #BCWildfireService #Prescribedburning #RossMooreLakeFire #RossmooreLakefire #culturalburning #Controlledfire #indigenousfire #Prescribedfire #BCwildfires #controlline #Wildfires #fireline #Fire

Global News BC: 42% of wildfire evacuations occur in Indigenous communities, researcher https://globalnews.ca/news/9918749/indigenous-vulnerable-wildfires-evacuations/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #IndigenousCommunities #Indigenousstewardship #Firstnationswildfire #culturalburning #ClimateChange #Colonization #FirstNations #Environment #BCwildfires #Indigenous #Wildfires #Canada #Fire

Wildfires and Cultural Erasure: The Struggle of Indigenous Communities
#IndigenousCommunities #FirstNations #KanakaMaoli #Environment #ClimateChange #Wildfires #IndigenousStruggle #CulturalErasure #RecordSeason #CulturalBurning #EcologicalCrisis #Struggle
https://the-14.com/wildfires-and-cultural-erasure-the-struggle-of-indigenous-communities/

Seems like a good moment to send the reminder that we're running an #instance here at https://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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A Long History of Fire in Australia
https://theconversation.com/a-dive-into-the-deep-past-reveals-indigenous-burning-helped-suppress-bushfires-10-000-years-ago-203754?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton
#CulturalBurning

Please share: PhD scholarship available at Deakin University for a First Nations student to tell stories of Cultural Burning and medicinal plants. Location negotiable. #PhD #CulturalBurning
https://adi.deakin.edu.au/latest-opportunities

Here is the seasonal reminder that we're running an #instance here at https://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 :)

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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