@mekkaokereke When Europeans first visited the Australian continent they saw what looked like great farming land - wide green pastures, and colonisation proceeded on that basis.
What we've discovered since is that, if you preserve the "natural bush" untouched for a few years, it degenerates into a tangled, impenetrable mass, full of flammable material.
Now we understand that First Nations traditional "firestick farming" is what maintained the wide green pastures, to encourage kangaroo and make it easier to hunt them.
After 200 years of dispossession, there aren't many people left with the firestick knowledge, but there is lots of training happening, so hopefully this knowledge will penetrate the volunteer firefighting service that does " fuel reduction" burns. They're usually too hot and prone to getting out of control.
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