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Fire management
Fire Management Practices
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Contents
1. Introduction 3
1.1 Northern Australia 3
2. Fire Management Practices 4
2.1 Indigenous Fire Management 4
2.2 Pastoral Fire Management 7
2.3 Biodiversity Fire Management 9
3. Differences between all of these fire management systems 10
4. Conclusion 11
References 12
1. Introduction
The discovery of “fire” was an important milestone for the human civilization as it gave insight into a phenomenon through which people can generate raw energy in order to fuel whatever purposes they might be applied for. However, the application of fire by the society at large far supersedes the above mentioned “energy utilization”, and are applicable in numerous scenarios, events and instances whereby fire, or the concept of “combustion”, might be applicable in order to achieve very tangible and quantitative results (Pivello, 2017).
On the other side, it has already been noticed and observed that “fire” does have immense destructive power whereby any large scale occu
ence of the same can reduce large swathes of areas to a noticeably burnt affair without any consideration for life and its associated environment (Petty et al., 2015). Wildfires are more or less destructive phenomenon that mostly take place in forest regions and areas; as a result, not only do they cause untold damage to life abounding all around in such places, but they also leave the land ba
en and full of toxins, upon which life supporting minerals and substances are not present form many years to come in the future (Pe
y, 2016). As such, it hinders life on an alarming and immediate rate, and, as such, negatively impacts the already deteriorating environment of this planet in the long run.
But, if implemented properly, fire management techniques can effectively reduce the risk for an extended time being, and, as a result, life can complete its incremental and tightly tied natural processes without any kind of hindrances, including large scale devastative phenomena like wildfires. At the core of various fire management techniques, there is a noticeable technique, which in its innate philosophy is wont to use “fire” as a counteractive measure in and of itself, resulting in a situation that might be intrinsically controlled phenomenon in the same place, albeit being on a much smaller scale and in an extremely controlled and regulated environment as such.
1.1 Northern Australia
Northern Australia is a region in which these techniques and measure had been implemented and regularly overseen by the indigenous people, the Aborigines, in their own special way. This resulted in a sense of formal and notable equity in the resources that any living creature might get from the land, and their methodical and nomadic approach ensured that a particular area had time to
eathe and regulate itself based upon the fact that the tribes would move quite regularly, and they would ensure that the land might recuperate after experiencing severe human intervention for a significant amount of time (Trauernicht et al., 2015).
In the modern day, this region has been threatened significantly by the increased scale of modernization and disenfranchisement of the Aborigines, especially in this part of the country. As such, wildfires became more prominent and all too frequent in the fallout of the modern Australia, letting thousands of species, both flora and fauna, burned to the ground without any hope or chance for recuperation and rebirth as a fully functional and supportive environment (Williams, Gill & Moore, 1998).
2. Fire Management Practices
2.1 Indigenous Fire Management
The indigenous crowd, who have been living in the land of Australia for thousands of years, have actively taken part in what can be termed as a “give and take a
angement” with the nature at large for thousands of years (Petty et al., 2015). The fire management techniques implemented by them had proved to be effective with the fragile natural balance that the aggregate ecosystems in Australia to such a degree that the overall flow and cyclical nature of the environment must keep moving forward. As such, flora and fauna, in spite of facing many difficulties, had abounded in the forests and other regions, leading to a state of equity and balance that is essential for the nature at large to act as it should be in a normal state.
Objectives
The objectives that the Aborigines did, in fact, possess in relation to their own philosophy of implementing fire management practices are multi-faceted, and would require the researcher (s) to investigate more into their history and what their innate philosophical entities entailed to be with respect to their social fa
ic at large (Bosomworth, Handmer&Dovers, 2014). As such, they have been enumerated as below:
· The Aborigines recognized the fragile state at which the nature usually tends to function with respect to the various aspects that are responsible for the essential construction of the ecosystem that has been, in fact, permeating through the continent for several millennia in the making (Pe
y, 2016).
· To preserve life in its optimum state and balance so much so that any or all species are not affected greatly by the human or tribe interventions in the long run with happenstances, such as extinction, mass destruction or any other untoward circumstance (Trauernicht et al., 2015).
· Recognizing that wildfires are an immense destructive force, and is instigated by situations and phenomenon whereby the living beings get too dependent and, through extension, resort to implementing damaging and exploitative measures.
· The wildfires tend to generally occur in the final days of the fall season, which in the country, would occur somewhere around the months of July and August. The indigenous demographic recognized this at the instances when the combustible or easily burning substances would be greatly in abundance at the particular point of time in the calendar year.
· Understand that for the ecosystem to survive there should be a fine, subtle, but also all-too-important balance between every living creature that is, in some way dependent upon the same. As such, fire management techniques were viewed as being more of a social responsibility by the individuals in order to make sure that wildfires or events of that particular nature would be avoided under all possible circumstances (Tulloch et al., 2016).
Timing
In order to fight occu
ences of devastating and large scale wildfires in an effective goal of preserving and protecting the other lives at all possible costs, it must be made sure that proper planning techniques should be implemented with respect to the occu
ence in question at the very first instance (Pe
y, 2016). As such, it is important to learn two things, one, when does the probability of wildfire happening is the highest? And, secondly, what is the actual reason for it occu
ing on such a large and devastating scope and scale? (Bosomworth, Handmer&Dovers, 2014)
As it has already been pointed out, wildfires in the various forest areas and regions in Northern Australia generally takes place at the very end of the fall season, which might be attributed to the innate characteristics of the season in and of itself (Pivello, 2017). This is perpetrated by the fact that the season is generally associated with plant and other kinds of forest remains, which when left to their own devices after they had been shed and rejected by the plants and trees tend to be inherently combustible and incendiary when
ought in contact with the slightest of flames (Pe
y et al., 2018).
As such, the appropriate that the indigenous population selected as being appropriate for proper fire management interventions as well as other associated activities would be at the beginning or the start of the fall season when such inflammable and, by extension, wildfire-inducing factors would be countered against and essentially removed from the ecosystem for other living beings to have a chance at life in the end (Mistry, Bilbao & Berardi, 2016).
Application
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