Territory Stories

Desert fire : fire and regional land management in the arid landscapes of Australia

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Title

Desert fire : fire and regional land management in the arid landscapes of Australia

Other title

edited by GP Edwards and GE Allan

Editor

Edwards, Glenn P; Allan, G. E.

Collection

E-Publications; E-Books; PublicationNT; DKCRC Report 37

Date

2009

Notes

Date:2009; Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).

Table of contents

Executive summary -- 1. Introduction and overview of Desert Fire -- 2. Managing fire in the southern Tanami Desert -- 3. Aboriginal burning issues in the southern Tanami: towards understanding tradition-based fire knowledge in a contemporary context -- 4. Pastoralists’ perspectives on the costs of widespread fires in the pastoral lands of the southern Northern Territory region of central Australia, 2000–02 -- 5. A review of fire management on central Australian conservation reserves: towards best practice -- 6. The fire history of Rainbow Valley Conservation Reserve 1984–2005.

Language

English

Subject

Fire Management -- Australia, Central

Publisher name

Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre

Place of publication

Alice Springs

Series

DKCRC Report 37

Format

iii, 338 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.

File type

application/pdf

ISBN

1741581125; 1741581109

ISSN

1832-6684

Use

Copyright

Copyright owner

Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre

License

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2019C00042

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/213472

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/715141

Page content

Desert Knowledge CRC0 Desert Fire: f i re and regional land management in the ar id landscapes of Austral ia Ch : The fire history of Rainbow Valley Conservation Reserve 98200 pp. 098 K. Gabrys: Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport, PO Box 2533, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 0871, Australia P. Cowan: Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport, PO Box 2533, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 0871, Australia A. Duguid: Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport, PO Box 2533, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 0871, Australia Various ranger staff provided access to park-based records, and registry staff assisted in locating current and archived registry files. Carly Steen and Ben Sparrow provided GIS support, and Anthony Knapton scanned the large paper maps on a flatbed scanner. Grant Allan provided advice on landscape-scale fire mapping and early fire history. Contributing author information Acknowledgements ASTSHR Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve FMS Fire Management System GIS Geographic Information System PWSNT Parks and Wildlife Service Northern Territory Shortened forms