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Fire Frequency: for the Oriners area from the Northern Australia Fire Information
(NAFI) database, historical air photos (Queensland and Federal Governments), and
other publications on research from nearby cattle stations (Crowley and Garnett
1998; 2000).
Feral Animals: for the Oriners region from regional studies of the impacts of feral pigs
(McGaw and Mitchell 1998; Doupe et al. 2009a; 2009b; Mitchell 2010; DEEDI 2010)
and cattle (Shellberg et al. 2010; Shellberg 2011; Shellberg et al. 2012; Pettit et al.
2012) on ecosystem processes.
Native Terrestrial Animals: this is a placeholder section for future detailed literature
and database review and field investigations of the native terrestrial animals and
wildlife of the Oriners and Sefton Areas. A brief review of initial wildlife reference data
is provided (Winter and Lethbridge 1995), along with a minimum a wildlife species list
for the area (DERM Wildlife Online).
Native Birds: this is a placeholder section for future detailed literature and database
review and field investigations of the birds of the Oriners and Sefton Areas. A brief
review of initial bird references is provided (Winter and Lethbridge 1995; Garnett and
Crowley 1995; Abrahams et al. 1995; Crowley and Garnett 1998; 1999; 2000; 2001),
along with a minimum a bird species list for the area (DERM Wildlife Online).
Native Aquatic Animals: this is a placeholder section for future detailed literature and
database review and field investigations of the aquatic animals of the Oriners and
Sefton Areas. A brief review of initial aquatic references is provided (Herbert et al.
1995; Abrahams et al. 1995; Cook et al. 2011), along with a minimum amphibian and
reptile species list for the area (DERM Wildlife Online).
1.5.3 Cultural, linguistic, historical and ethnographic resources
Information from resources additional to the natural sciences will be reviewed in more detail
here, as they are not collated or analysed later in the document. Four recent works
specifically focused on Oriners and generated in collaboration with people associated with
the area are:
An unpublished and restricted cultural mapping report containing information about
important sites in the area (Strang 2001);
An unpublished and restricted ethnobotany of Oriners plants (Stewart, Hamilton et al.
1996);
An online dictionary of the Olkol and Oykangand languages (Hamilton 1996);
A series of local unpublished Kowanyama planning documents and reports
canvassing development options and aspirations for Oriners;
Two recent further sources which are about wider and/or adjacent areas, but which contain
important general analysis of relevance to Oriners country are:
Bruce Sommer‟s book focusing on language and kinship amongst the Oykangand,
one of the languages of the Kunjen people (Sommer 2006).
Strang‟s ethnography comparing the differing cultural and landscape values of
Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Cape York (Strang1997).
These resources are discussed in more detail below.
1.5.3.1 Kunjen country cultural mapping (Strang 2001)
Veronica Strang is an anthropologist with deep and longstanding research ties with the
Kowanyama community. That link has generated much important material, far more than can
be adequately examined here (Strang 1997; Strang 1999; Strang 1999; Strang 2001; Strang
2001; Strang 2002; Strang 2003; Strang 2004; Strang 2005). Two works are of primary
interest to the current study. The first (Strang 1997) is a major ethnography contrasting
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