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The Gulf Fire Project was a concept put together by the lower Gulf of Carpentaria Traditional Owners (TOs) along with Southern Gulf Catchments, Rural Fire Service, the North Australian Indigenous Land & Sea Management Alliance (NAILSMA), Carpentaria Land Council Aboriginal Corporation pastoralists and District Inspector Trevor Howard. The principle of this project was to put in place working relationships between TOs and pastoralists in regards to the use of fire management. The region’s TOs use fire for a number of reasons, one such reason is to thin out wooded country by burning early in season to produce ‘green-pick’ for hunting and food gathering later in the dry-season so they won’t need to travel long distances for food and most important, to protect sacred sites. On the other hand, the pastoralists use fire late in the dry when the first couple of storms move threw to burn off the old standing grass and to induce a fresh crop for next season while at the same time reducing ground fuel in case of wild fires. ...