THE Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority recently teamed up with Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation and local Devenish landholders to re-instate cultural burning practice.
Together with Yorta Yorta’s Marrin-Bidja Woka (Country) Bidja (Fire) team and landholders, Matt and Gen Trewin, a cultural burn was undertaken at Quandong Hill, in Grey Box Grassy Woodland country.
Marrin-Bidja manager Michael Bourke said, “It is really important for Yorta Yorta people to be back in the landscape practicing the right fire on Country, showing great partnerships and to have cultural fire back in the landscape, as has been practiced for 80,000 years.”
The weather was perfect for burning with no breeze, a little bit of warmth and some cloud cover. It was a calm and enjoyable experience for everyone. The skinks and insects also had time to shelter in neighbouring habitat.
Cultural burning is a cultural fire practice used by First Nations people to improve the health of Country and its people, managing land, plants and animals.
If you have Grey Box Grassy Woodland country you wish to protect, revegetate and manage, grants are available. Contact Jim Begley at the Goulburn Broken CMA on 0428 508 189.
This project is funded by the Australian Government Natural Heritage Trust and delivered by the Goulburn Broken CMA, a member of the Commonwealth Regional Delivery Partners Panel.
