A method of vegetation control by burning, used by Aboriginals.
Cooloola's vegetation patterns were probably shaped by the fire-stick farming of its Aboriginal inhabitants
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- Firestick farming involves getting rid of long grass and grass seeds which impede travel.
- Aboriginal people used firestick farming to encourage kangaroos to eat in 'farming' areas.
- Fire-stick farming was used very judiciously, many people think, to create this environmental mosaic.
- Aborigines adapted to the harsh landscape through the practice of fire-stick farming.
- Fire-stick farming is still used by some indigenous communities in the remote Northern Territory.
- It was when man started fire-stick farming that allowed plants that need a conflagration to propagate to prosper.
- Some Aborigines are known to have practiced "fire-stick farming" in some regions.
- Cattle are the next best vegetative critter to retain the grasslands/environment created with firestick farming after kangaroos.
- Many trees which were young then are still standing as veterans, their lives first shaped by the Aboriginal fire-stick farming of the land.
- In Central Australia, fire stick farming was performed to ensure maximum availability of food and movement for humans.