Roaring success at cultural burn day
Hay Plains Landcare, Murrumbidgee Landcare and Hay Shire hosted a two-day cultural burn workshop at Sandy Point Reserve last week.
Facilitated by Dean Freeman, Local Land Services, and the Wiradjuri Cultural Burns Team, participants learned how to adapt traditional revegetation techniques to modern land management systems.
Knowledge was shared on the benefits and techniques of cultural burns, to reduce exotic weeds, enhance native ground cover and increase drought tolerance.
"It's really good to see these young kids down here, learning," Wiradjuri Elder John 'Gubba' Woods said.
Cultural Burning, also known as Indigenous or Traditional Fire Management, is a land care practice used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for tens of thousands of years.
These cool burns involve the application of low-intensity, patchy fires to clear away exotic weeds and thick leaf litter, without damaging the soil or mature vegetation, creating space, light and the right conditions for native species to regenerate.
