TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jurskis,Vic
TI  - Firestick ecology: fairdinkum science in plain English 
SN  - 9781925138740
U1  - 304.20994 21
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Ballarat, Victoria
PB  - Conor Court Publishing Pty Ltd
KW  - Fire ecology
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Fire use
KW  - Fire management
KW  - Australia
KW  - Indigenous knowledge - Ecology
KW  - Environment - Land management - Fire
KW  - Environment - Climate and weather - Bush fires
KW  - Environment - Resource management
KW  - Environment - Land management - Rehabilitation
KW  - Environment - Land management - Soil resources
KW  - Environment - Conservation - Forests
KW  - Environment - Conservation - Ecologically sustainable development
KW  - Environment - Conservation - Environmental impact studies
KW  - Animals - Mammals - Marsupial megafauna
KW  - Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture
KW  - Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry
KW  - Plants - Eucalypts
KW  - Plants - Acacias
KW  - Plants - Grasses
KW  - Social ecology
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Shifting cultivation
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Murray River (SW WA SI50-02)
KW  - Darling River (NSW SH55, SI54)
KW  - Tasmania (Tas)
KW  - Environmental conditions
KW  - Australian
N1  - Scheduled to be published September 2015; Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-355); 1. Science -- 2. ecological history -- 3. how things were -- 3a. how things were again -- 4. how things changed -- 5. if there is no balance of nature, how can it be disturbed? -- 6. rarity, decline and pestilence -- 7. the wilderness myth -- 8. human fires, megafires, paramilitaries and global warming enthusiasts -- 8a. fire research; 9. the alleged evils of grazing -- 10. Murray-Darling madness -- 11. saving forests that never were -- 12. rainforest, wet sclerophyll and scrub -- 12a. how Aborigines most likely made Australia -- 13. the big jump -- 13a. of prickly pear and other stuff -- 14. imaginary problems and real crises -- 14a. the magic pudding -- 15. firestick ecology
N2  - Aborigines came to Australia and burnt out most of the trees and bushes. The megafauna starved whilst eucalypts, herbs, grasses and mesofauna flourished. The ancient culture survived an ice age, global warming and hugely rising seas, forging economies in woodlands and deserts. Europeans doused the firestick, woodlands turned to scrub, mesofauna perished, megafires and tree-eaters irrupted. Foresters rekindled the firestick and greens stole it. Megafires and declines are back with a vengeance whilst ecologists dream-up reasons not to burn. Ecological history shows that we must apply the firestick frequently, willingly and skillfully to restore a healthy, safe environment and economy
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