The Guardian ‘Our Land was Taken. But we still hold the knowledge of how to stop mega-fires’.

Written By Isfmi Secretariat

Bill Trip, Director of natural resources and environmental policy for the Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources of California writes in an opinion piece for the Guardian on the 16th September 2020 that ‘the solution to the devastating west coast wildfires is to burn like our Indigenous ancestors have for millennia’. Read the article here.

“Joe Jerry conducts a prescribed burn using a drip torch. Prescribed burns may have cultural objectives, but they tend to be planned primarily for clearing the leaves, brush and small trees that fuel large wildfires. Photograph: Courtesy of Stormy S…

“Joe Jerry conducts a prescribed burn using a drip torch. Prescribed burns may have cultural objectives, but they tend to be planned primarily for clearing the leaves, brush and small trees that fuel large wildfires. Photograph: Courtesy of Stormy Staats, KSMC” Photo credit as published in the Guardian, 16 September 2020.

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