Over the past few years fire management and cultural burning have developed as a fascination in me. As a child I was always a bit of a pyro-maniac, but pairing such a Promethean yet utterly human urge with ecological management and plant cultivation reaps interesting and often unbelievable results. Don’t take it from me, but take it from indigenous people the world over. Humanity’s use (and in some cases, abuse) of fire is as old as our modern species. Carbon deposits from landscape-level burning at the hands of humans extends back at least 100,000 years and probably many more.