The Birpai and Bunyah Local Aboriginal Land Councils are working with Forestry Corporation to integrate cultural burning knowledge with government bushfire management.

A fire training camp will be held at Guulabaa – Place of Koala in Cowarra State Forest near Wauchope as part of Fire, Country and People, a three-year Australian Government-funded project.

Fire and incident management specialists Fireground will deliver accredited firefighting training to members of the Wauchope and Port Macquarie Aboriginal communities from March 17-20.

Forestry Corporation's Aboriginal Heritage and Partnerships Manager, John Shipp, said the training will provide participants with essential skills and qualifications in firefighting.

"This program creates an opportunity for the Birpai and Bunyah communities to work with government agencies to develop a path forward for effective and sustainable bushfire management combining traditional cultural burning and modern firefighting techniques," Mr Shipp said.

"This will improve the resilience of the community to major bushfires."

Mr Shipp said cultural burning is part of a long-standing tradition in land management.

"The use of fire in the environment is only one aspect of the community's land management experience which has existed for sixty-odd thousand years," he said.

The Fire, Country and People project also aims to build scientific evidence around cultural burning.

A research program will assess how traditional Aboriginal fire practices affect the intensity and spread of bushfires.

The $3-million Fire, Country and People: Aboriginal Community Disaster Ready Project is funded by the Australian Government and jointly supported by Forestry Corporation.