“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.”

“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.”

This is good @britafollariviere.bsky.social

“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.”

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

The Signing Oak - Windsor Great Park, Berkshire Photo: Jeroen Philippona

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.

Save the date! #OakHealth #FireMimicry #TEK 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🪶🌱🦅🌰 www.smmfsc.org/oakworkshop

“hundreds of hours of interviews with fire ecologists, botanists, members of County Fire, policymakers, and more were compiled to make a comprehensive guide of considerations and plans to bring back Chumash cultural fire.” www.independent.com/2025/07/16/i...

I like Abuela Lucinda Vásquez Morales’s list of the purposes of burning: to protect, strengthen, teach, feed, heal. Seems a good motto. Also how she & Maria Meza say “how important it is that Indigenous Women be officially recognized for their role as the leaders in these processes and practices.”

A study of a pyrogenic carbon deposit in the East China Sea finds evidence of a sharp increase in human fire use around 50,000 years ago, likely due to both population increases and the chilly temperatures associated with glacial periods. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This week, there were hundreds if not thousands of brown pelicans, cormorants and osprey feeding on bait fish in the Klamath River estuary and plume. This is another sign the river is healing in response to dam removal.

“The man didn’t have to cut a fireline with a Pulaski or a chainsaw; he didn’t have to work in a bulldozer cutting a dozer line; and he didn’t have to have air support to keep the fire out of the trees. The snow did the work.”

I was in British Columbia last month to learn about wildfires, which got me thinking about how we see the forests around us, and how it is not necessarily good thinking. 1/x

“Cultural burning in spring after the snowmelt and in fall before the rains stimulates plant growth and opens the land to wildlife.” indiginews.com/features/on-...

“When founded on the three pillars of respect (respect for self, others, and the environment), teaching fire provides a fantastic catalyst for the development of perseverance, patience, teamwork, nature connection, responsibility, community and survival skills.” educatedbynature.com/term-program...

“we burn to teach, to feed and to heal.” www.fao.org/indigenous-p...

“Cultural burning, a tribal land management practice, was the central focus of the event, with sessions highlighting its use in reducing forest fuels, promoting healthy ecosystems and supporting traditional Indigenous practices like hunting and gathering.” krcrtv.com/news/local/y...

(🚨) The first-ever pop song about uranium enrichment has just been released on all streaming platforms and for purchase. It’s “E” for explicit, too! Hope you’ll you share it if you like it. (Warning: it’s an earworm.)

Karuk Tribal Youth Forestry Camp participants, led by Cultural Fire Practitioners under an SB 310 agreement, pulled off an unplanned cultural burn without incident this week. So much easier when experienced people can go to where conditions are right to make good things like this happen! :-)

Dave's not wrong. This could change how silvicultural prescriptions are written

Wrote this piece for Harpers Bazaar about the life, legacy, and hate-induced murder of Jonathan Joss through the eyes of being a Two-Spirit Native person this Pride. I hope you take a read. For Him. For all of us. 🪶

A Canadian Indigenous leader who greeted world heads of state arriving for the Group of Seven summit says he was “filled with rage” and considered leaving before Donald Trump arrived.

Oh heck no. Among other things this would include the river canyon north of me. It's not suitable for building, and needs constant management to not be a massive fire risk. I'm sure many will claim to solve lack of housing in the county, but it won't.

Showing how the humanities can solve drought: “Little by little, the ancient water-management system described in myths, documents, petroglyphs and stone carvings was aligned as a coherent whole.”

The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow

Spread The Word Post on your other social media! No Kings Day Rallies Idaho - Montana - Wyoming Plan to attend a rally near you. Take a friend! www.mobilize.us/nokings/ www.nokings.org

Profile of one of my favorite colleagues and a true leader in efforts to improve land stewardship and wildfire resilience in California: Lenya Quinn Davidson. And also a testament to the lasting value and impact of the UC system. alumni.berkeley.edu/california-m...

This is a fascinating paper on a very pertinent topic! Plant Responses to a Re-emergence of Cultural Burning in Long-Unburnt, Threatened Temperate Woodlands Global Change Biology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “50501 NO KINGS MONTEREY” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Peatlands emit acids that mobilize iron (Fe), which is rather immobile at neutral pHs. Thus, ironpans often occur in #Soils beneath #PeatBogs. But some Fe escapes into streams in chelated forms & flows to the oceans. If oceans are deficient in Fe, then do #Peatlands help fertilize marine ecosystems?

Academics in #ForestEcology, I'm feeling your pain! My NSF funding was cut after Bush got "elected" in 2000. It turned out great, as I was finally able to APPLY my science. There is good money in tree care, especially if you have a PhD. So try becoming an #Arborist (w/ PhD) and help the trees. 🌎🍁🌲🔥

We've all seen #BonsaiTrees, but who has seen a bonsai forest? Here are a images of forests in SE AK with bonsai trees growing in moss that are centuries old and represent a late stage in the succession of forest to peatland (paludification). This can only occur in places where fire is rare. 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳

I got to spend the day leading observers & doing comms work on a multi-acre LandPaths/Fire Forward prescribed burn at the Grove of Old Trees in Occidental. Still processing the day but will be writing about this later.

Restoring relationships among people and between people and fire: “The idea that there is a wilderness that existed on this continent is based wholly on racism and the ideals of white supremacy… partnerships and holistic management are keys to restoring any ecosystem.” Frankie Myers

Yesterday I spent the day removing all the moss from the trunks of ancient oak trees. Any guesses why? #Mosses #OakRestoration #FireMimicry 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅🌰

Life-made rain www.sciencenews.org/article/biop...

Field photo: “It’s time to draw a line in the sand umm errr Sphagnum” #Peatlands #PeatSky #wildfire @nobel-water.bsky.social

“Chairman Smokey says the tribe strategically removes logs from overgrown forests and areas previously scorched by wildfire and turns that timber into firewood.”

Center for Biological Diversity (@biologicaldiversity.org) recently published an opinion piece: "‘Active management’ harms forests — and it’s about to get a whole lot worse." Given that this article has considerable bearing on my profession, allow me to offer a different point of view. 🌎🍁🔥🌳

Wondering how someone has 2.5K followers and NO posts, replies, media, or videos ... @bsky.app

I concocted a new potion for the oaks yesterday ... results coming next year. #OakHealth #FireMimicry #SuddenOakLife 🌎🌲🍁🔥🌳🧪🌐🌱🪶🌰

New paper alert -- Gavin Jones strikes again! Key findings: • Fire-driven complete loss of mature forest habitat in California is possible by 2100 under 'business as usual'. • Active forest restoration could slow or reverse trends of mature forest loss. 🧪🌍🔥

Indigenous fire and new technology: "One key aspect for any technology moving forward is, what are you leaving behind for the community? ...Otherwise, it seems very extractive. All my member nations are focused on limiting knowledge extraction and resource extraction from their communities."

Looks like a good tool for cultural burns in tight urban spaces, like, say, the Fresno State campus or my back yard: “the torch wagons used for this event were repurposed from previous jobs to lay tar paper on roofing.” www.dailyuw.com/science/burk...

#OrovilleCA #Oroville #CA #California #ICE #Raids #Immigrants #AntiICE #FuckICE

These authors say Indigenous communities they studied “could theoretically meet their annual energy needs by harvesting less than 1% of the surrounding biomass, which with thoughtful planning could constitute effective fuel treatments.” www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Rocko (Star) on the job, every friggin' day! #FireMimicry #OakRestoration #SuddenOakLife #GooBoi 🌎🌲🍁🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🌰

How to help sustain Tongva traditional practices? www.latimes.com/california/s...