Ingenious ways to recover
Indigenous fire methods may be able to help with the recovery of the landscape after a bush fire.
A massive 3.9 million hectares of NSW was burned by bush fires between September 2019 and January 2020.
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What happens after a bush fire in the landscape? How does the land and vegetation recover?
What are the greatest threats to a healthy recovery?
Hey Firestormers!
Indigenous fire practitioners can bring the land back to life after a bush fire.
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Actor Ben Lawson, who has starred in Modern Family, Firefly Lane, 13 Reasons Why, wrote this poem in Los Angeles where he has lived since 2008, as a love letter to his burning homeland.
On Monday 3 February 2020 this special bush fire edition of Four Corner first went to air on ABC Television.
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Invasive natives and weeds can take over in the period after a bush fire - creating more bush fire hazards for the future, and crowding out the fire-resistant natives.