What Is Cultural Burning Cultural burning involves burning “trickling fires” in circles or mosaics across patches of land during cooler periods that typically start in March and April but can vary depending on the landscape. “Hazard reduction or prescribed burning is an effective tool within the whole hazard reduction tool kit, but it’s got its limitations. That’s why a lot of the hazard reduction burning they’re [fire services] doing in spring is quite dangerous because they’re not doing the proper burning. “A lot of the hazard reduction ... burning they’re doing, we don’t want them to do it. Though Costello acknowledged the recent “fire and extreme conditions” could affect traditional practice, he said the communities “can adapt to that impact”.

Source: Huffington Post January 17, 2020 00:33 UTC