Overview: Indigenous Land Management

Question 1

Fire-stick Farming

Answer 1

The process of regularly using fire to burn vegetation

Question 2

Purpose of Fire-stick farming

Answer 2

• Change composition of flora
• Hazard/leaf litter reduction
• Promote growth of vegetation
• Flush out game
• Clear paths

Question 3

Impacts of Fire-stick farming

Answer 3

• Some forest areas were burnt so often they were replaced by heath and grasslands
• Encourages the regrowth of eucalyptus and potash
• Introduced species of plants (due to reduction in traditional fire regimes)
• Emits carbon dioxide