Country in flames
Proceedings of the 1994 symposium on biodiversity and fire in North Australia -
Biodiversity series, Paper no. 3
Deborah Bird Rose (editor)
Biodiversity Unit
Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories and the North Australia Research Unit, The Australian National University, 1995
Contents
- Foreword - HC Coombs
- Introduction - Deborah Bird Rose
- Welcome address - Wali Fejo
- Mindjongork: Legacy of the firestick - Rhys Jones
- Fire, people, landscapes and wilderness: Some thoughts of North Australia - Tony Press
- Fire: Emotion and politics: A Yanyuwa case study - John Bradley
- Bushfires Council, the community and you - Russell Anderson
- Fire management in the Northern Territory post-Mabo: The legal basis for Aboriginal burning - Camilla Hughes
- Discussion 1
- Poem: Firestick Farming - Mark O'Connor
- Burn grass - April Bright
- Fire in the Kimberley - Patrick Green
- Fire in Arnhem Land - Joe Yunupingu
- Discussion 2
- A tropical Queensland perspective - Peter Stanton
- Fire in the desert: Increasing biodiversity in the short term, decreasing it in the long term - Peter Latz
- We like our lizards frilled not grilled! - The short-term effects of fire on frillneck lizards in the Top End - Tony Griffiths
- A healthy savanna, endangered mammals and Aboriginal burning - RW Braithwaite
- Why the skillful use of fire is critical for the management of biodiversity in Northern Australia - David Bowman
- Discussion 3
- Final discussion
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements