TIMELESS cultural burning practices have returned to Narungga and Nukunu country.
Northern and Yorke Landscape Board has completed five low-intensity burns across Yorke Peninsula and southern Flinders Ranges.
The cultural burning occurred with funding from WWF Australia's Regenerate Australia program, in collaboration with First Nations people, Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation and National Parks and Wildlife Service.
NY Landscape Board recently engaged Tagalaka man and Firesticks lead fire practitioner Victor Steffensen to share his knowledge with First Nations people.
Also known as fire-stick farming, cultural burning is a complex practice based on low-intensity, cool burns at low flame height, intended to destroy weeds and promote native vegetation regrowth.
The burning will mark a return to the traditional practice which Aboriginal communities once used to manage the land.
Narungga man Cyril Kartinyeri said he welcomed a return to cultural burning on YP.
"We are excited to share our knowledge with the wider community about how we care for country," Mr Kartinyeri said.
The burns come as a result of several months of planning which began when Mr Steffensen joined Narungga and Nukunu representatives in visiting potential sites last year.
Following a four-day road trip, the board held a workshop in Clare with attendees from the Department for Environment and Water, CFS, MFS, local government, Native Vegetation Council and First Nations people, who all played a part in the project's preparation.
The practice involved about 20 First Nations people and was conducted locally at Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park and a grasslands site in Ardrossan.
NY Landscape Board Aboriginal partnerships officer Matthew Turner said it was an exciting opportunity for the region.
"Nukunu and Nharangga people are interested in burning because it's good for country, bush tucker and importantly, it's an expression of culture," Mr Turner said.
"Through this project we hope to build capacity in First Nations communities to continue to conduct cultural burning and help prevent large-scale wildfires."