As Jason (Smith) has taught us, you have to listen to country; you can’t push it,” says Paul Davis. “But if you listen carefully, you can hear that it needs us. It needs people. We took advice 20 years ago on how to manage this place, and the whole emphasis was on protection and just allowing nature to heal itself. But it’s not that simplistic. It doesn’t work like that. As Jason says: “Over the last few hundred years we took out one key element of the process in the caring for the landscape. We took the humans out.
