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“Our culture is being threatened — not just by colonial aspects, but invasive species, climate change — and we’re trying to figure out ways to reignite those cultural pathways,” Alvin First Rider, Kainai’s environmental manager, says. thenarwhal.ca/kainai-fire-...

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“Dani Fegan, the Sault Tribe’s forestry manager and an enrolled citizen, said the negative impacts of colonization on Indigenous land stewardship was only part of the problem with fire. ‘There’s also just this general fear of fire that’s been bred in the last century,’ she said.”

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“It’s tourism in a different form,” organizer Jim Real Bird said. “More political.” www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/where-t...

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Always be prepping

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Keep a laser-focus on change: “I was always struck by the sense of shared humanity among the resisters that I discovered… effective resistance to the far right is never just about defeating the enemy. It’s about creating a better future for everyone.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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“If you’re wondering where fire will go and how fast it will move, think of water.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Good advice for us all, all year long: “stay ready, stay in shape, be available.”

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“Kolden [ @pyrogeog.bsky.social] said she was skeptical of the First Street report, particularly as it pertains to wildfires, saying its assessment of Fresno does not delineate between the fire hazards of the flammable foothills and the less serious potential for fire in the Valley.”

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“Our forest management is usually a lot different than industry, a lot different in that we actually do stuff compared to some of the federal agencies. And that's exciting because we actually bring unique civil culture, unique ways in how we manage our land.” www.mtpr.org/montana-news...

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This bill’s list of eliminated programs (health, housing, education, EPA, culture, etc.) is long: “It is a direct challenge to the federal trust and treaty obligations owed to tribes, a responsibility that predates the founding of the United States and has been reaffirmed repeatedly in federal law.”

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And then there’s this: “more than 100 organizations and nonprofits around the country are sounding the alarm, telling Senate leaders to “‘heed how dramatically unpopular this idea is and reject any misguided attempt to get public lands sales back in this bill.’”

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“The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation joined 43 other hunting, fishing and wildlife conservation organizations in a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer encouraging them to keep federal public land sales out of the budget reconciliation bill.”

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Does anyone know where the big hunting & angling conservation groups are on this?

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Meanwhile in Florida…“We have a constitutional duty to conserve our traditional homelands, the lands and waters which protected and fed our tribe since time immemorial,” said Talbert Cypress, chair of the Miccosukee Tribe.

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Yo, check the map. Many important places would be up for sale, including Mono Hot Springs, Jackass Meadow, etc, etc. “The bill fails to give sovereign Tribal Nations the right of first refusal to bid on lands, even for areas that are a part of their traditional homelands or contain sacred sites.”

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Showing how the humanities can solve drought: “Little by little, the ancient water-management system described in myths, documents, petroglyphs and stone carvings was aligned as a coherent whole.”

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A question for those with expertise in the topic: could Tribal bonds help fund fire management infrastructure or the development of plant nurseries, recreational & hospitality facilities, etc.? tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/fin...

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Disrupting and consolidating federal firefighting at the beginning of fire season just doesn’t seem to be the best idea. But the part of the EO that calls for increasing partnerships and agreements with Tribes is interesting. We shall see. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

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A model to show those who throw up their hands and say cultural burning isn’t feasible in chaparral because the sites will convert to invasive, exotic grasslands: “…post-burning interventions in low-floristic condition sites will be critical to mitigate weed invasion and to promote native plants.”

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Chumash Fire and the Sierra National Forest providing support for the North Fork Mono Tribe’s cultural burn

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It’s great to be back in California today helping Ron Goode and the North Fork Mono Tribe restore a meadow with a little fire

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Part of an amazing week in Montana, where I saw friends, met good people, and learned about fire, forest restoration, funding, legislation, policy, and technology!

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True, but big burns don’t have to “rage.”They can crawl and skip around at mixed severity. “The tribes of the northern Great Plains were some of the few to light very large fires —miles-long conflagrations that raged across dry grasslands — to drive large herds of buffalo in a desired direction.”

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Looks like a great dissertation by Anousheh Kehar, TU Wien. I recall talking w/ her a few years ago. She’s citing some good people here. “With Fire: Living as Guests on Unceded Indigenous Homelands (in California) and Architectural Praxes for Collective Futures” repositum.tuwien.at/bitstream/20...

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“Thinking with fire is a way to reimagine relations outside of colonial models, to transform with those whose homelands are settled on, to build collective futures.” www.platformspace.net/home/fire-an...

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While we are all reeling from the budget and its major cuts to NASA, NIH, USGS, etc. I want to also draw attention to this little nugget about State Wildlife Grants, which is the mechanism for funding State Wildlife Action Plans. Eliminating SWG will destroy state natural resource agencies.

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In Norway, herrings are losing their elders and their knowledge of migration routes. The solution? Change harvesting practices to encourage a population boom and help the fish recover their collective memory.

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It’s interesting that Clarence Thomas joined Neil Gorsuch in dissent. @debkrol.bsky.social

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Restoring relationships among people and between people and fire: “The idea that there is a wilderness that existed on this continent is based wholly on racism and the ideals of white supremacy… partnerships and holistic management are keys to restoring any ecosystem.” Frankie Myers

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