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We’ve spent 100 years growing a tinderbox across the West. Now it’s wildfire season. Controlled burning – an indigenous tradition that’s been used for millennia – might be a solution.
Sources and resources:
Emily Washines
Frank Kanawha Lake
Reese Lolley
Hilary Franz
Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Washington Nature Conservancy
washingtonnature.org/forest-health
Indigenous People’s Burning Network
conservationgateway.org/ConservationPractices/FireLandscapes/Pages/IPBN.aspx
Fire as Medicine: Fire Dependent Cultures and Re-Empowering American Indian Tribes
Frank Kanawha Lake
fireadaptednetwork.org/fire-as-medicine-fire-dependent-cultures
Washington State 20 Year Forest Plan
dnr.wa.gov/ForestHealthPlan
NOAA
Washington Prescribed Fire Council
waprescribedfire.org
“Tending the Wild”
M. Kat Anderson
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520280434/tending-the-wild
kcet.org/shows/tending-the-wild
“As Long as Grass Grows”
Dina Gilio-Whitaker
beacon.org/As-Long-as-Grass-Grows-P1445.aspx
Yakama Nation
yakamanation-nsn.gov/history.php
“Discovery of the Yosemite”
Lafayette Houghton Bunnell
yosemite.ca.us/library/discovery_of_the_yosemite
Yosemite; Acting Superintendent Report, 1903
calisphere.org/item/ef4d3d636f176f92d7cc36c4deba7a28
“’Piute Forestry’ or the Fallacy of Light Burning”
W.B. Greeley; The Timberman, March 1920
foresthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/PiuteForestry.pdf
Letter to Forest Supervisor from Orleans District Ranger, 1918
F.W. Harley
Available in Stories of the Klamath National Forest: The first 50 years: 1905 - 1955.
worldcat.org/title/stories-of-the-klamath-national-forest-the-first-50-years-1905-1955/oclc/28150970
“Danger of Wildfires Reduced by Prescribed Burning in Ponderosa Pine”
Harold Biswell
http://calag.ucanr.edu/archive/?type=pdf&article=ca.v014n10p5
Yakima Memory
yakimamemory.org
Thumbnail photo: RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images
#wildfires #climatechange #indigenousknowledge #nativeamericans #firemanagement #controlledburns
We’ve spent 100 years growing a tinderbox across the West. Now it’s wildfire season. Controlled burning – an indigenous tradition that’s been used for millennia – might be a solution.
Sources and resources:
Emily Washines
Frank Kanawha Lake
Reese Lolley
Hilary Franz
Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Washington Nature Conservancy
washingtonnature.org/forest-health
Indigenous People’s Burning Network
conservationgateway.org/ConservationPractices/FireLandscapes/Pages/IPBN.aspx
Fire as Medicine: Fire Dependent Cultures and Re-Empowering American Indian Tribes
Frank Kanawha Lake
fireadaptednetwork.org/fire-as-medicine-fire-dependent-cultures
Washington State 20 Year Forest Plan
dnr.wa.gov/ForestHealthPlan
NOAA
Washington Prescribed Fire Council
waprescribedfire.org
“Tending the Wild”
M. Kat Anderson
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520280434/tending-the-wild
kcet.org/shows/tending-the-wild
“As Long as Grass Grows”
Dina Gilio-Whitaker
beacon.org/As-Long-as-Grass-Grows-P1445.aspx
Yakama Nation
yakamanation-nsn.gov/history.php
“Discovery of the Yosemite”
Lafayette Houghton Bunnell
yosemite.ca.us/library/discovery_of_the_yosemite
Yosemite; Acting Superintendent Report, 1903
calisphere.org/item/ef4d3d636f176f92d7cc36c4deba7a28
“’Piute Forestry’ or the Fallacy of Light Burning”
W.B. Greeley; The Timberman, March 1920
foresthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/PiuteForestry.pdf
Letter to Forest Supervisor from Orleans District Ranger, 1918
F.W. Harley
Available in Stories of the Klamath National Forest: The first 50 years: 1905 - 1955.
worldcat.org/title/stories-of-the-klamath-national-forest-the-first-50-years-1905-1955/oclc/28150970
“Danger of Wildfires Reduced by Prescribed Burning in Ponderosa Pine”
Harold Biswell
http://calag.ucanr.edu/archive/?type=pdf&article=ca.v014n10p5
Yakima Memory
yakimamemory.org
Thumbnail photo: RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images
#wildfires #climatechange #indigenousknowledge #nativeamericans #firemanagement #controlledburns
