Cultural Burning | Tending the Wild | Season 1, Episode 1 | KCET
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- For thousands of years, California Indians used fire as a tool for managing natural resources. Throughout the state, Native peoples conducted cultural burns on a wide range of plants and it was their fire regimes that created diverse habitat mosaics that sustained meadows, coastal prairies, and grasslands. The careful application of fire increased fruit and seed production, caused new growth that was better suited for making baskets, and reduced the fuel load that could be burned by naturally occurring wildfires. But starting with the Spanish conquest and continuing today in the form of Forest Service and Cal Fire policies, fire suppression has drastically limited cultural burning. As a result, the forest has become incredibly dense and we are now facing a situation in the Sierras where drought is causing many trees to die. This massive tree mortality has brought the forest to a tipping point where large scale wildfires threaten to alter the Sierras permanently. In this video, we explore how cultural burning is being practiced today and what lessons it holds for the future of the forest. We visit the area just south of Yosemite National Park where two tribes are working to bring fire back to the land, the North Fork Mono Tribe and the Cold Springs Rancheria of Mono Indians.
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This is simply fantastic.
I wish more people would see that the key to unlocking how to improve and survive climate crises is by listening to and adopting the practices of indigenous peoples.
This was very informational. Thanks to the creators and tribal fire practitioners
Really excellent coverage of this topic, touching on humans stewarding nature for a win-win of natural resource production, decreasing superfire risk, providing significant open space and cultural materials and products. Good to see the forest service increase collaboration with Native American people, sharing knowledge, learning together.
I agree!
More people need to watch this
I'm glad to see that in our area of HamptonRoads in the Dismal Swamp the Forest is burn. When you smell or see smoke here you know things will be reborn.
Ohh I want to see The Great Dismal Swamp in my lifetime!
Yay Ron and Jared! Keep sharing this important message!
This was great. I hope this collaboration happens and happens very soon. The fires in Cali are devastating
Awesome documentary Ron! JS
I agree! ...more need to watch and understand.....
Thank you Bros
❤️ 🧠 I have all this knowledge passed down to me I love my people
Please correct the spelling of "Cultural" in the title. It is not "Cutural". I worked with Kat Anderson 27 years ago; so glad to see this issue addressed.
They never corrected it xD
3 years later.... no correction
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ok so we are all here because of our teachers
WooWoo take on basic science courses. You don't need to inject spiritualistic nonsense into the transparently obvious.
The funny thing is tribes knew about the science bc they pay attention to the land and incorporated what they observed into their spiritual practices before western science caught on to the “transparently obvious”. It’s part of tribal spiritual practice bc tribes had lived and seen fire ecology at work. It strengthens each other
2 years later... You still angry?😂
Did you know many native seeds in California won’t germinate without fire! Areas that historically have been burned allow seeds that need smoke, heat, and fire to germinate. It’s not “woo woo” haha.