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“Euro-American colonization caused the largest shifts in fire behaviors in California over the past 400 years. In other words, the genocide of Indigenous peoples directly relates to today’s catastrophic burning.”

Just another reason we say #LandBack https://theconversation.com/what-western-states-can-learn-from-native-american-wildfire-management-strategies-120731?utm_medium=amptwitter&utm_source=twitter">https://theconversation.com/what-west...

What western states can learn from Native American wildfire management strategies

Instead of suppressing wildfire, the Karuk Tribe in the Pacific Northwest is using it as an integral part of its climate change management plan. Federal, state and local agencies are taking note.

https://theconversation.com/what-western-states-can-learn-from-native-american-wildfire-management-strategies-120731?utm_medium=amptwitter&utm_source=twitter

“But starting with the Spanish conquest and continuing today in the form of Forest Service and CalFire policies, fire suppression has drastically limited cultural burning.” https://www.kcet.org/shows/tending-the-wild/episodes/cultural-burning">https://www.kcet.org/shows/ten...

E1: Cultural Burning - How Native American Peoples Use Fire to Rejuvenate the Land

Suppressed for over a century, indigenous cultural burning is still practiced today and holds important lessons for managing the threat of destructive...

https://www.kcet.org/shows/tending-the-wild/episodes/cultural-burning

CA tribes used fire to manage lands for thousands of years until colonizers like John Muir who considered Indigenous ppl, practices & knowledge as inferior, forbid it & even killed them for it. & look at California today- burning out of control. #LandBack https://www.hcn.org/articles/tribal-affairs-california-wildfires-werent-always-this-destructive">https://www.hcn.org/articles/...

California wildfires weren’t always this destructive

Indigenous residents say traditional practices and careful burns could temper blazes.

https://www.hcn.org/articles/tribal-affairs-california-wildfires-werent-always-this-destructive

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