Fire as Medicine: Learning from Native American Fire Stewardship
Fire as Medicine: Learning from Native American Fire Stewardship For centuries, Indigenous peoples have worked to live in harmony with fire. Can integrating such cultural practices into contemporary wildfire management help prevent catastrophic wildfires? Yurok and Karuk igniters conduct traditional burning to achieve multiple resource objectives in a tanoak orchard, a former Karuk acorn-gathering area in California being restored today. Credit: Frank Lake 29 March 2021 In 2020, nearly 60,000 wildfires raged across the United States, burning a record-breaking 10.3 million acres. ...
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