From the text ... 'Fire-Stick Farming began with a question as simple as it was radical: 'We imagine that the country seen by the first colonists before they ringbarked their first tree was 'natural.' But was it?' Inspired by the extensive fire management he saw practiced by Aboriginal communities across central Arnhem Land, and appreciating the antiquity of Aboriginal occupation, Rhys Jones answered in the negative. This insight, that Aboriginal people managed the landscape through fire to make it more productive and had been doing so for millennia, was revolutionary. ...'