Most aboriginals tried to keep their fires alive at all times.
Despite modern folk-lore tales about aboriginal fire management skills, anyone reading diaries from early explorers such as Abel Tasman and Captain Cook soon learned that aboriginals lit fires at any time, for many reasons, and NEVER tried to put them out.
If threatened by fires lit by enemies, the most frequent response was to light their own protective fires.
Because of the high frequency of small fires, fire intensity was low and fires could be lit safely even in hot dry summers.
Any fire lit would soon run into country burnt one or two years earlier and then would run out of fuel and self-extinguish.
With high winds, high temperatures and heavy fuel loads some fires will race through the tree tops of oil-rich eucalypt forests.
Mainly we must relearn two ancient skills - remove the fuel load everywhere and use fire to fight fire.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/reduce-fires-reduce-fuel
Despite modern folk-lore tales about aboriginal fire management skills, anyone reading diaries from early explorers such as Abel Tasman and Captain Cook soon learned that aboriginals lit fires at any time, for many reasons, and NEVER tried to put them out.
If threatened by fires lit by enemies, the most frequent response was to light their own protective fires.
Because of the high frequency of small fires, fire intensity was low and fires could be lit safely even in hot dry summers.
Any fire lit would soon run into country burnt one or two years earlier and then would run out of fuel and self-extinguish.
With high winds, high temperatures and heavy fuel loads some fires will race through the tree tops of oil-rich eucalypt forests.
Mainly we must relearn two ancient skills - remove the fuel load everywhere and use fire to fight fire.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/reduce-fires-reduce-fuel
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