News Articles
Quiet Fire: Indigenous Tribes in California and Other Parts of the U.S. Have Been Rekindling the Ancient Art of Controlled Burning. Buono, Page. Nature Conservancy Magazine, November 2, 2020.
Our Land Was Taken. But We Still Hold the Knowledge of How to Stop Mega-Fires. Tripp, Bill. The Guardian, sec. Opinion Wildfires. September 16, 2020.
Karuk Tribe Leads Effort to Fight Racism and Climate Change with Fire. Bacher, Dan. Daily Kos, October 13, 2020.
Alarmed by Scope of Wildfires, Officials Turn to Native Americans for Help. Cowan, Jill. New York Times, October 7, 2020.
Fire Tore through the Karuk Tribe’s Homeland. Many Won’t Be Able to Rebuild. Ho, Vivian. The Guardian. October 23, 2020.
We Must Burn the West to Save It. How an Ancient American Indian Practice Can Reduce the Risk of Massive Wildfires. Irfan, Umair. Vox. October 22, 2020.
Setting ‘Good Fires’ to Reduce the West’s Wildfire Risk. Kuz, Martin. Christian Science Monitor. October 9, 2020.
There’s Good Fire and Bad Fire.’ An Indigenous Practice May Be Key to Preventing Wildfires: For Thousands of Years, North American Tribes Carefully Burned Forests to Manage the Land. The Future May Lie in a Return to That Past. Mann, Charles C. National Geographic. December 17, 2020.
How Indigenous Burning Practices Could Prevent Massive Wildfires. Romero, Ezra David. State of Science. Science Friday, September 25, 2020.
Fighting Wildfires With Fire. Schiffman, Richard. Wall Street Journal, sec. Life & Arts. September 30, 2020.
Friendly Fire’s Time for Designers to Embrace Fire as the Ecological and Cultural Force That It Is. Schuler, Timothy A. The Architect’s Newspaper. October 29, 2020.
Colonialism Created These Fires: Solidarity with the Karuk Tribe. Water Protector Legal Collective. November 2, 2020.
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