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Community conversations: applying traditional knowledge to fire management and research
Today, many tribes wish to use traditional knowledge (TK) and cultural burns in a contemporary setting to address issues of wildland fire and fuel management that have risen as a result of fire suppression policies. Here, the term TK is used in…
Author(s): Hannah Lopez, Frank K. Lake, Vita Wright
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Sharing Multiple Perspectives on Burning: Towards a Participatory and Intercultural Fire Management Policy in Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana
Although there is convincing scientific research for the role of Indigenous fire practices in sustainable land management, Indigenous peoples' involvement in policy-making is limited. This paper presents findings from a fire management workshop…
Author(s): Bibiana A. Bilbao, Jayalaxshmi Mistry, Adriana Millán, Andrea Berardi
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Indigenous fire stewardship
This chapter addresses Indigenous Fire Stewardship and cultural burning using several case studies applicable to wildland fire management in the Wildland-Urban Interface. Indigenous fire stewardship practices had the highest influence around…
Author(s): Frank K. Lake, A. C. Christianson
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We’re Not Doing Enough Prescribed Fire in the Western United States to Mitigate Wildfire Risk
Prescribed fire is one of the most widely advocated management practices for reducing wildfire hazard and has a long and rich tradition rooted in indigenous and local ecological knowledge. The scientific literature has repeatedly reported that…
Author(s): Crystal A. Kolden
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Getting back to fire suméŝ: exploring a multi-disciplinary approach to incorporating traditional knowledge into fuels treatments
Background: Evaluating fuel treatment effectiveness is challenging when managing a landscape for diverse ecological, social, and economic values. We used a Participatory Geographic Information System (PGIS) to understand Confederated Colville Tribal…
Author(s): Monique D. Wynecoop, Penelope Morgan, Eva K. Strand, Fernando Sanchez-Trigueros
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Traditional knowledge of fire use by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in the eastside Cascades of Oregon
We examined traditional knowledge of fire use by the Ichishikin (Sahaptin), Kitsht Wasco (Wasco), and Numu (Northern Paiute) peoples (now Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, CTWS) in the eastside Cascades of Oregon to generate insights for…
Author(s): Michelle M. Steen-Adams, Susan Charnley, Rebecca J. McLain, Mark D. Adams, Kendra L. Wendel
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Indigenous peoples and collaborative forest governance in northern forests: examining changes in policies, institutions, and communities — a selection of research papers presented at the ISSRM Conference
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Out of the Ashes: Ecological Resilience to Extreme Wildfire, Prescribed Burns, and Indigenous Burning in Ecosystems
Until Euro-American colonization, Indigenous people used fire to modify eco-cultural systems, developing robust Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). Since 1980, wildfire activity has increased due to fire suppression and climate change. In 2017,…
Author(s): Cristina Eisenberg, Christopher L. Anderson, Adam Collingwood, Robert Sissons, Christopher J. Dunn, Garrett W. Meigs, David E. Hibbs, Scott Murphy, Sierra Dakin Kuiper, Julian SpearChief-Morris, Leroy Little Bear, Barbara Johnston, Curtis B. Edson
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