Lee Klinger PhD

Here is a link to one of my websites with maps and the database on archeological sites in America older than 11,200 years. This was done in 2021 since then I have documented many other sites that are older. www.tipdba.ca/about-dr-ste...

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Happy Winter Solstice! This coast redwood is feeling the LOVE today. (Yearly images taken on the same date and at the same time if day.) #SaveTheRedwoods #FireMimicry 🍁🔥🌳🌎

Winter Solstice Redwood Tomorrow is winter solstice and I would like to celebrate by sharing with you a redwood tree that I’ve been tending with fire mimicry for the past four years. Enjoy!

Happy Winter Solstice Eve! #SaveTheRedwoods with #FireMimicry 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅🌰

Monterey pines on the mend Yesterday I checked up on a grove of Monterey pines that have had a couple of fire mimicry treatments …

It's not all about the oaks here at Sudden Oak Life. We care for pines too ...
#PineHealth #FireMimicry 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅🌰

Coast live oaks regaining their health in Monterey CA Four years ago I began fire mimicry treatments on a grove of coast live oaks overlooking Monterey, CA. I’m quite pleased with the results but I’ll let trees speak for themselves …

Turns out that reviving oaks is not too difficult ...🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌰
#OakHealth #FireMimicry #SuddenOakLife

This approach is focused improving tree health, not on controlling pests or pathogens. Theoretically it should work for other pests and pathogens, but not proven.

More results on a non-toxic treatment for oakworm infestations in coastal California Last year I shared a post on a non-toxic treatment for oakworm infestations here on the Central Coast of California. In that post I stated: “In 2017 there was a severe oakworm infestation of …

Yesterday I visited an oak grove in Monterey that was hit hard by an oakworm infestation in 2017. Following a couple of fire mimicry treatments the oaks seem to be recovering nicely!
🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅🌰
#OakHealth #Oakworm #FireMimicry

Another successful canker surgery on an ancient coast live oak This is a 2017 image of an old-growth coast live oak in Monterey that I’ve been treating with fire mimicry for eight years. At that time it had bleeding stem canker infection, possibly Sudden…

Moving forward, one tree at a time ...
#OakHealth #SuddenOakDeath #SuddenOakLife #FireMimicry 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅🌰

These findings refer to recent, post-colonial anthropogenic fires. Pre-colonial antrhopogenic fires would likely tell an entirely different story.

Amid climate impacts, leading Secwépemc firekeeper shares ‘a better way of looking after the land’ | iNFOnews.ca In a time of worsening wildfires, Joe Gilchrist says cultural burning ‘needs to be multiplied hundreds of times’ — returning to Indigenous stewardship.

Different burn cycles for different landscapes: every 15 years, or seven years, four years, two years… It depends. infonews.ca/news/7435899...

Oaks in Fulton Feeling the Love Yesterday I examined a grove of coast live oaks that have undergone fire mimicry treatments for the past five years. Some of these oaks are centuries old and show signs of being tended by the Nativ…

I love my job! 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅🌰 #FireMimicry #OakHealth #SuddenOakLife

Starts With A Bang

@bigthink.com Fascinating article by Ethan. My question is if there is a significant amount of information exchanged in the energy of a system, or within the universe, would that flow change the total energy of the system? bigthink.com/starts-with-...

I can always count on you @wildwoods.bsky.social to point out my many errors.

As a climate scientist I acknowledge that climate change affects forest decline. However, I do believe that lack of traditional management plays a far greater role in the health and carbon balance of our forests than climate. We can solve this problem ecologically long before we change the climate!

But the article you share makes no mention of cultural burning, which would have mitigated old-growth forest decline. It states that the "carbon lost to trees dying and decaying outstripped the carbon gained by trees growing to replace them." Yes, mature (tended) trees store more C than young trees!

Let's get real folks. Is this climate crisis or a lack of forest management? How many trees in this photo would have been present 100 years ago. I only see one, meaning that all the younger trees are competing with and limiting the growth of the mature trees around them. Cultural burning is the way!

The Future of Conservation: Indigenous Ways Meet Western Science Collaboration and co-stewardship are bringing positive change across the country

Here is an excellent article explaining why I've been so focused these last 10 years on building a relationship with the local Esselen Tribe and helping steward their lands. My hope is that more of you will start forming a relationship with your local tribes. They have much to teach us! 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅

Upcoming Workshop: Tending Oaks with Fire Mimicry Hey fellow tree-huggers, especially those in SoCal, how would you like to learn about the health and care of our old-growth oak forests and what we can do to mitigate wildfires using the knowledge …

Many of you have requested this, so here it is. For the love of trees please share! 🌲❤️🌎🍁🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅

Yup! More than once. Even papers that claimed to have tested my methods, without contacting me or even actually testing my methods. This is why I'm an Independent Scientist. While still an academic, I'm free of the BS. I'm just applying my science and documenting the results.

Time for Tribes to Lead on Wildfire and Other Forest Management Priorities By Cody Desautel

“To make shared stewardship meaningful, tribes must be allowed to lead within our own homelands. This means entering into long-term agreements that don’t just invite tribal input but are built around tribal vision, tribal priorities, and tribal knowledge…
It also means investing in our people.”

The Role of Good Fire in Nourishing Boreal Berries — Boreal Conservation Summer in the Boreal Forest means an abundance of berries—blueberries, strawberries, cloudberries, raspberries, bunchberries, and more. These berries help sustain bears, moose, and other animals. Peop...

“You don’t go and burn all your berries at the same time,” @amycardinal.bsky.social explained. “Indigenous fire management is based on intervals—knowing when patches have been burned, which patches are getting overgrown. It’s not a one-time, one-off approach. It’s ongoing stewardship.”

Agency, Resistance, Persistence This month, the California History-Social Science Project invited Brianna Tafolla Rivière to write a guest post about bringing indigenous history into your classroom. Brianna is a historian and PhD ca...

This is good
@britafollariviere.bsky.social

Karuk Tribe’s Fire Stewardship Shines Amid Wildfires - Siskiyou News As wildfires tear through Northern California’s rugged terrain, the Karuk Tribe leads a quieter, deliberate fire on the other side of the mountain. In the Siskiyou region, their cultural fire practiti...

www.siskiyou.news/2025/07/10/k...

On Controlling Fire, New Lessons from a Deep Indigenous Past For centuries, the Native people of North America used controlled burns to manage the continent's forests. In an e360 interview, ecologist Lori Daniels talks about the long history of Indigenous burni...

“There’s a school of thought that you can just put a fence around a forest and keep people out, and it will be protected, which is a very old-school view, a very colonial view. It comes from this idea that we came to a land that was ‘empty’ and there for the taking.”

Johnson Ranch Open Space Cultural Burn yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini (ytt) Northern Chumash Tribe brings back tinɨtʸu, "Good Fire" to ancestral homelands in a collaborative effort

Great story-map here. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a58f...

Massive oak tree

The Signing Oak - Windsor Great Park, Berkshire

Photo: Jeroen Philippona

Beautiful! Why is the base of the trunk white? Has limewash been applied?

Sprinkling limestone on farms may offer an unexpected climate win Farms commonly spread crushed limestone on fields to make the soil less acidic – and this practice can also help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

Farms commonly spread crushed limestone on fields to make the soil less acidic. This practice is typically considered a source of emissions, but it may actually remove carbon from the atmosphere.