The overlooked solution to deadly wildfires
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
- The Native American practice of cultural burning - or ‘good fire’ - can help our forests thrive.
In 1850, California outlawed tribal traditions that had kept forests healthy for generations. Today, climate change and decades of fire suppression have led to a deadly situation in the state.
UC Davis professor Beth Rose Middleton Manning and Honorable Ron W. Goode, Tribal Chairman of the North Fork Mono Tribe, describe how cultural burning shows the path forward.
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🔥 Funding for the cultural burn workshops described in this video provided by The Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center and the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation via the Yocha Dehe Endowed Chair in California Indian Studies, housed in the Department of Native American Studies at UC Davis. Middleton Manning holds this chair.
00:00 Unhealthy forests and wildfires
00:44 How the land was managed
01:14 What is cultural burning?
01:58 Indigenous burning was outlawed
02:52 Dense forests were planted
03:47 Using fire again
04:44 Nature needs us to care for the land
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0:53 Beth Rose notes that there is work underway in Yosemite to introduce cultural burning to the park (under the oaks in the Valley). It’s led in part by Irene Vasquez, a National Park Service cultural ecologist and member of the Southern Sierra Miwuk and Paiute tribes.
That was excellent. Very well put together! Thank you
Hey, thanks!
Thank you, Lord, for providing Indian American natives who understand the land to help us control forest fires. We are always so quick to judge the other, believing we know better. We would grow by asking their reason for such actions before resorting to judgment.
This is a perfect example of how humans are not above the rest of nature. We have our ecological niche, we just left it and tried (and failed) to fill every other niche. We need to return to the ways we used to live to some extent, or at least perform our duties that we evolved to perform.
"If ecologists and environmentalists were to endorse the premise that Indians shaped the ecology of certain plant communities with fire, they would have to rethink the tenets upon which their wilderness philosophies are based and would have to face up to the removal of Native Americans from the wilderness areas in at least some instances a grave ecological faux pas that would ultimately undermine the unique habitat types and the biological diversity that they sought to preserve. They would also have to reevaluate the assumption that land use and conservation are always incompatible or that human tinkering with nature is inevitably destructive". From Forgotten Fires - Omer C. Stewart. Please read.
Do you know anything about the Earth's Magnetosphere and the Pole Flip?
@davidjessen4287 - Thanks for the recommendation! I will read ‘Forgotten fires’ by Omer C. Stewart 🙏🏾
USFS fight fires starting in 1933 (well sort of, they had the Civil Conservation Corps which needed to find work for them to do. Hey put out fires might work. USFS starting planting trees in the 1960's maybe the late 1950's in certain locations. I live in the Canadian Rain Forest and, in my lifetime, can remember lumber companies planting the very first trees here, in the early 1960's.
Every American day should be about Thanksgiving, of graciously accepting and appreciating the knowledge of cultivation focused around a healthy ecosystem; people need to understand the importance of bio-diversity in the ecosystem, instead of obscenely eating weeks of food because of some bastardized consumerist holiday that ironically would have not been possible without the 3 sister rotation.
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So if most fires are caused by humans, why did we change the term forest fires to wildfires.
I have actually seen the sign on the road change from: "only you can prevent forest fires." To:" only you can prevent wildfires."
I think the first slogan makes more sense, but ruins a narrative.
Because if most (80% to 90%) people cause forest fires, this would mean as population rises (80 million/year), forest fires would increase.
But if they are called wildfires, then you can say it's climate change.
Just word salad. "Blowdown" is now called "Windthrow" Neither word tries to understand why a two hundred year old tree would blow down last year.