Kōrero: Fire and agriculture

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• Fire as a land management tool

  Fire and Emergency New Zealand guides for using fire for land clearing and disease control in agricultural or horticultural industries.

• Outdoor and rural fire safety

  Page on the Fire and Emergency New Zealand website about outdoor and rural fire safety.

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• Anderson, Atholl, and Matt McGlone. ‘Living on the edge: prehistoric land and people in New Zealand.’ In These naïve lands: prehistory and environmental change in Australia and the south-west Pacific, edited by John Dodson, 199–241. Melbourne: Longman, 1992.
• Arnold, Rollo. New Zealand’s burning: the settlers’ world in the mid 1880s. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1994.
• McCaskill, L. W. Hold this land: a history of soil conservation in New Zealand. Wellington: Reed, 1973.
• Peden, Robert. ‘“The exceeding joy of burning” – pastoralists and the Lucifer match: burning the rangelands of the South Island of New Zealand in the nineteenth century, 1850 to 1890.’ Agricultural History 80, no. 1 (Winter 2006): 17–34.
• Roche, Michael. Land and water: water and soil conservation and central government in New Zealand, 1941–1988. Wellington: Historical Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1994.
• Whitehouse, Ian E. ‘Erosion in the eastern South Island high country – a changing perspective.’ Tussock Grasslands and Mountain Lands Review 42 (1984): 3–23.