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How Indigenous fire knowledge has helped this family farm again

bourbiza August 24, 2023 Top Stories Leave a comment 21 Views

Grazing land became so overgrown on Ashton and Elliot Smith’s Queensland cattle station, that the pair knew they needed a solution.

The organic cattle graziers turned to traditional knowledge to reopen the land, which had become basically unusable and unable to be walked through.

The pair turned to natural resource group North Queensland Dry Tropics and Indigenous fire practitioners as partners in managing their property Jervoise Station in the state’s north.

“It’s about how we can change our land to work with fire, instead of being worried about fire at the end of the year and the fuel…

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