Land Management Literacy

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Write a definition for each of the words below:

Agriculture:

Aquaculture:

Regeneration:

Sustainable:

Use the words in the word bank to fill in the blank spaces and complete the passage:

stock hunter-gatherer sustainable agricultural passage dams totem


manipulating responsibilities tool harvesting aquaculture knowledge colonists
fishing efficiency managed purposeful

.. societies forage and hunt for food and do not

employ methods or build permanent dwellings; they are nomadic.

However there is much evidence that references Aboriginal peoples building and

wells, planting, irrigating and seed, preserving the surplus and


storing it in houses, sheds or secure vessels, creating elaborate cemeteries

and the landscape none of which fits the definition of

hunter-gatherer.

was long established in Australia long before the

first . arrived. The Brewarrina fishing system in the north-west of NSW

is an example of a large scale . operation. Witnesses who saw the system

in operation in the early 1800s were astounded by the of the traps, the

efforts employed to maintain breeding and the enormous harvest. The

traps were designed to allow the . of breeding stock through so that

upstream fisheries could gain a share. Particular ponds in the system

were and used by particular families those families

had for the secure provision of fish to the families upstream and

downstream from their location. It was an integrated and system.

Controlled fire and its ceremony is understood to have been the main

management .. for Aboriginal people. Fire was a and whoever lit it

answered to the ancestors for what it did. The rules for fire and fire use are many and

varied, and are dependent upon an intimate of the physical and

spiritual nature of the land. Burning was and part of the

systematic management of the land.

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