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A new approach to fighting wildfires combines local knowledge and AI

Land managers in the western United States are using potential operational delineations, or PODS, to prepare for and take advantage of wildfires. ....

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California pot trade linked to cartels leaves chemicals, dead animals

Thousands of illegal marijuana grow sites, some linked to Mexican drug cartels, litter precious public lands across Northern California. ....

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'Fire is culture': Karuk leaders teach about prescribed burns

The Understory Collective, a project run by Stanford students, hosted its first event with members of the Karuk tribe to discuss the use of prescribed burns to protect forests. ....

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What if Indigenous women ran controlled burns?

The Karuk Tribe’s first-of-its-kind training seeks to extinguish hypermasculinity in firefighting culture. ....

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Indigenous Knowledge guides the conservation of culturally important plants

Since time immemorial, the Karuk tribe of northern California have managed their ancestral lands, over 400,000 hectares of open oak woodlands, meadows, and forested mountains along the middle section of the Klamath River. They used low-level fires to maintain a healthy landscape for the plants central to their culture. But after settlers arrived in California, […] ....

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