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We’ve spent 100 years growing a tinderbox across the West. Now it’s wildfire season. Controlled burning - an indigenous tradition that’s been used for millennia - might be a solution.
Sources and resources:
Emily Washines
Frank Kanawha Lake
Reese Lolley
Hilary Franz
Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Washington Nature Conservancy
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Indigenous People’s Burning Network
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Frank Kanawha Lake
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Washington State 20 Year Forest Plan
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NOAA
Washington Prescribed Fire Council
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“Tending the Wild”
M. Kat Anderson
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“As Long as Grass Grows”
Dina Gilio-Whitaker
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Yakama Nation
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Lafayette Houghton Bunnell
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Yosemite; Acting Superintendent Report, 1903
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“’Piute Forestry’ or the Fallacy of Light Burning”
W.B. Greeley; The Timberman, March 1920
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Letter to Forest Supervisor from Orleans District Ranger, 1918
F.W. Harley
Available in Stories of the Klamath National Forest: The first 50 years: 1905 - 1955.
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“Danger of Wildfires Reduced by Prescribed Burning in Ponderosa Pine”
Harold Biswell
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Yakima Memory
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