Jared Dahl Aldern

Hi Murphy, check this one: “Yards, Corridors, and Mosaics: How to Burn a Boreal Forest,”
Henry T. Lewis and Theresa A. Ferguson www.lakeheadu.ca/sites/defaul...

YouTube video by California Academy of Sciences Setting the Foundation for Grizzlies to Return | California Academy of Sciences

Creating welcome mats for the grizzly youtu.be/e5ILG_zQFKU?...

You will be visited by three spirits

Landkeeping With rising temperatures, longer summers, drought, and more wildfires occurring in the United States and Canada, there is growing interest in the impact and efficacy of Indigenous fire and cultural bu...

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"We've lived alongside them for thousands of years," Jason Moody, the father of one of the girls in the school group, and Nuxalk's fisheries and wildlife planning coordinator told CBC News in a Nov. 28 interview.

"Our relationship is one of respect, and they're revered and honoured."

Smoke and traffic delays expected during cultural burns near Highway 101 Drivers and nearby residents can expect to see smoke and experience some traffic slowdowns along Highway 101 next week as two planned cultural burns take place in local open space areas.

In SLO next week www.ksby.com/san-luis-obi...

Ishkode returns to Wisconsin Point The 22-acre burn clears invasive species, returns nutrients to the soil and helps native plants thrive, organizers said.

“We were able to prove with science that this was a thing and it needs to happen again,” Zhaawendaagozikwe said. www.superiortelegram.com/news/local/c...

Native American tribe reclaims 900 acres near Yosemite National Park in California The South Sierra Miwuk Nation was expelled from the lands 175 years ago.

“When the Indian was on the land, the canopy was open,” said Honorable Ron W. Goode, Tribal Chairman of the North Fork Mono Tribe. “In that open space, a variety of plants, bushes, and smaller trees, like oak trees, [grew],…still used today by native tribes for food, medicinal or cultural purposes.”

Torres, LaMalfa Lead Push to Safeguard Culturally Important Tribal Seed Varieties A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday reintroduced the Native American Seeds Act of 2025, legislation designed to help Tribal nations protect and preserve culturally significant seeds threatened...

“Donna Thompson, chairwoman of the Fort Hall Business Council of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, said the measure responds to the federal government’s treaty obligations and supports the preservation of culturally important foods such as camas, bitterroot, wild onions, sage, and chokecherry.”

“The ballet is a story of a young Indigenous firefighter named Nathan whose worldview is transformed after meeting Mothkʷ, a fierce guardian of ancestral knowledge who practices cultural burning. ‘This is not a tale of apocalypse, but of perseverance. Of memory that survives and endures…’”

The term “sovereign burn” clarifies things in a way that “cultural burn” does not. 🔥

Can California learn to let Native American fire practitioners burn freely? Indigenous fire practices are slowly regaining wider acceptance in California, but the dream of burning freely based on the needs of the land is still a long way off.

Here’s a brief and welcome respite from the mantra of don’t-burn-in -SoCal-it’s-not-like-the-Sierra:

“Emily Burgueno calls them ‘sovereign burns… grounded in our creation stories, our sacred beliefs and philosophy.’”
@nohaggerty.bsky.social

www.latimes.com/environment/...

Fire Kinship: Southern California Native Ecology and Art | Fowler Museum at UCLA January 22, 2025—April 12, 2026

Or reach out to the artists and narrators in this exhibition: fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/...

Background: Indigenous Fire, Forestry, and Fuels Crew | Climate Science Alliance The intention of this project is to initiate a process for advancing opportunities for capacity building training so that Tribes lead and advance fire stewardship, restoration and management actions i...

Journalists who want to report on Indigenous fire in SoCal could start here: www.climatesciencealliance.org/fire-crew/ba...

Cal Fire approach to SoCal's wildfire crisis could make things worse, court says A statewide Cal Fire program risks making fires worse by removing native chaparral and allowing the spread of more flammable grasses, a court ruled.

I would love to see the State of California throw its weight behind regenerating a fire-resilient, diverse, open Indigenous cultural landscape, instead of cutting ineffective fuel breaks, lighting bad Rx fires, and fighting CCI and EHL in court. @nohaggerty.bsky.social www.yahoo.com/news/article...

And the young, green leaves are great food.

People still harvest wild mustard today. A Kumeyaay elder told me she couldn’t understand why people want to eliminate mustard in San Diego. “Just let me get up on the hill behind that Vons and pick it!“

Cultural Burning Returns to Tolowa Dee-ni’ Homelands at Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park For the first time since the 1850s, Tolowa Dee-ni’ fire practitioners carried out a cultural burn at Peacock Bar, restoring traditional stewardship on 10 acres along the Smith River.

“This marks the first return of cultural burning to the landscape since Tolowa Dee-ni’ were forcibly removed from the area in the 1850s and Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park was created in 1929.” kymkemp.com/2025/11/26/c...

The West’s vanishing porcupines - High Country News Scientists are racing to figure out why porcupines are disappearing from their former stomping grounds.

Recommend what would work for a lot of species, namely, using fire to create a varied, patch-mosaic landscape with an abundance of food and water for these animals. www.hcn.org/articles/the...

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...

Song for the times

I know of ways to remove fine fuels without burning barn-sized, soil-damaging piles.

Wishing for a reference to support this claim: “There is evidence that large amounts of downed dead trees that fall after a burn can increase overall fire intensity in places, and that their removal can reduce those impacts if done properly. But this applies only if the fine fuels are removed.”

Did you talk much about DCPP’s connection to the Helms pumped storage project in the southern Sierra?

‘Good Fire: Tending Native Lands’ Burns Bright at OMCA | KQED The exhibit uplifts an Indigenous-led movement to revive intentional, beneficial fires.

“Instead of only fearing and fighting fire, we can befriend it” www.kqed.org/arts/1398372...

To those who say, “clearing brush will not prevent wildfire in SoCal,” the main purpose of cultural fire in SoCal is not to protect houses & wilderness, it’s to produce food & materials, and to conserve animal habitat & water. But a tended landscape is also a less dangerous place for houses.

YouTube video by Northern California Public Media I'm a Burner - Awesome Women Environmentalists

“This is a really comfortable, relaxing experience.” youtu.be/ZgnCX9aBe4U?...

Taming Fire: Controlled burns can be a boon to our landscape Prescribed burns can be a boon to our landscape, burning fuel to help prevent future wildfires, and giving an opportunity to research everything from plant and animal resiliency to land management.

“‘When we’re using fire on the landscape, you could really think about it more as a form of agriculture, said Diego Cordero. ‘After these big fires here in the hills, you see flowers you probably hadn’t seen in decades popping up everywhere. A lot of those plants are actually our crops.’”

Landkeeping With rising temperatures, longer summers, drought, and more wildfires occurring in the United States and Canada, there is growing interest in the impact and efficacy of Indigenous fire and cultural bu...

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