Articles

Traditional Learnings by Chas Jones, Frank Lake, Joe Hostler, Margo Robbins, Elizabeth Azzuz, Dawn B

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

'Fire is medicine': the tribes burning California forests to save them

For millennia, native people have used flames to protect the land. The US government outlawed the process for a century before recognizing its value by Susie Cagle with photographs by Alexandra Hootnick

Association for Fire Ecology

Revitalized Karuk and Yurok cultural burning to enhance California hazelnut for basketweaving in northwestern California, USA

Quiet Fire by Page Buono

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

Forest Ecology and Management

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

California PBA

California’s hub for Prescribed Burn Associations and community based burning

For tribes, 'good fire' a key to restoring nature and people

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...