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Cultural Fire: Native Land Management and Regeneration with Elizabeth Azzuz

Effects of understory fire management treatments on California Hazelnut, an ecocultural resource of the Karuk and Yurok Indians in the Pacific Northwest

For millennia, native people have used flames to protect the land. The US government outlawed the process for a century before recognizing its value

Elizabeth Azzuz stood in prayer on a Northern California mountainside, arms outstretched, grasping a handmade torch of dried wormwood branches, the fuel her Native American ancestors used for generations to burn underbrush in thick forest...

Margo Robbins (Cultural Fire Management Council) and Ilkay Altintas (WIFIRE Lab) share their community- and technology-based strategies for responding to wildfire risk through cultural burning and fire trajectory mapping.

Indigenous tribes in California and other parts of the U.S. have been rekindling the ancient art of controlled burning.

"Revitalized Karuk and Yurok cultural
burning to enhance California hazelnut for
basket weaving in northwestern California,
USA"

What it’s like to put good fire to the ground.

Can managed fire heal more than just the forests?

Into the Field with Yurok and U.S. Forest Service Experts on Cultural Burning of Forested Lands