FEATURE: Australians tap Aboriginal cultural insight to prevent "wrong fire"

"To come up here, throw a match on the ground and just relax is the opposite of everything we've ever known," Martina Shelley said as she watched a group of people set small fires in a section of bushland on her family's more than 1,600-hectare property.The fires, which fill the air with pure, white smoke, are part of a workshop led by Koori Country Firesticks Aboriginal Corporation, a not-for-profit organization reviving indigenous fire management practices, also known as "cultural burning."The bushland management technique practiced by Aboriginal Australians for tens of thousands of years…READ FULL ARTICLE