I think the ranger groups, as they exist, are a huge success in the Northern Territory. I would highly recommend you look up the Northern Land Council and the Land and Sea groups. These are indigenous rangers who work to restore the landscape to pre-1788 conditions—before Captain Cook—through fire management and a lot of other aspects, but also through the protection of sacred sites. They are working together in a way that I've never seen anywhere else in the world among indigenous people. They have power, though, definitely beyond what we have in the U.S., even in places like Mexico. They own the land, and you go in on their invitation only.
Having said that, they feel incredibly.... The process of publishing with them takes many years, but for the oldest societies in the world, really, 40,000 to 50,000 years of unbroken knowledge.... It's just beyond anything I ever considered. It's maybe something to look at as an alternative model from somewhere else that was obviously colonized from the same source.
There's not a lot more to say there.
If you're interested in the fire-spreading, I can always pass that along. We're actively involved in trying to publish some of the deeper accounts, but we got cut off during COVID. It takes a long time to negotiate the permissions. We have them, but we just need to have them legally, basically. People are very happy to share the open knowledge—not the secret knowledge—of birds that spread fire, why they do it, how they do it and so forth.