Firesticks: cultural burning

 Healthy communities, healthy landscapes

The Firesticks project is about building recognition and awareness of the diversity and complexity of fire in NSW and its intrinsic link to caring for country. Firesticks provides a platform to support landholders to access resources, support and training, advocacy for ongoing funding on a local and national scale, and to share their experiences with others about the work they’re doing.

This guide has been developed from collective experience in working collaboratively with Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) and Aboriginal Owned Lands in NSW. The planning process can be adopted by all landholders who have an interest in managing their property for biodiversity and cultural values. 

This fire-planning guide aims to easily explain land management goals, and in turn fire management decisions, to communities and stakeholders. This guide aims to assist landholders in making a fire management plan in order to utilise fire as a management tool to protect and enhance cultural and ecological values as well as reducing risk to life and property.