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You can’t burn if conditions don’t allow, but maybe we should check conditions more often. “…prescribed burning should occur throughout the year. Fire personnel should be planning beyond seasons… and considering month-by-month weather conditions.”

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Ok, stand united, but keep in mind you’re on Native land. Give to the land and People at least as much as you take. “It’s where we hunt, fish, gather berries, mountain bike, hike, float and just go escape. It’s all of our backyards, and I have confidence that the people will stand united.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

I don’t know where this puts me in the culture war, but personally, I want to find ways use less water (to leave more in the creeks and rivers), less electricity (from all sources), and more fuelwood from wildfire hazard reduction projects (while taking care not to smoke out my neighbors).

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If you're in the area, please join Curtis Lee and me at the Auberry Library this Thursday! www.facebook.com/events/60573...

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I wonder when I’ll see my European relatives again. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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@padilla.senate.gov the Devil is always in the details, but this isn't looking like a great bill. The very fact that it's written by a guy who owns a firefighting aircraft company is concerning. Moving towards more suppression instead of following the science is concerning.

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Firefighters don’t expect electeds to be part of the culture, but it would help if they tried to respect it. This is absolute disrespect and it’s another pro-cancer move by this crew.

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“They’re proposing we’re going to go toe-to-toe with these fires. So instead of more thinning and prescribed burning, we’re going to try to be suppression-centric. That’s going to go back to the 1930s ‘10 a.m. policy.’”

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“Participants in the Traditional Ecological Inquiry Program & Vesper Meadow Fire Ecology Inquiry Days have an opportunity to gather as a community, connect to the land & create intergenerational long-term relationships w/ place, working to restore landscapes that were historically shaped by people."

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“The Tule River Tribe, with giant sequoias on its reservation east of Porterville, is ‘proud to support passage of the Save Our Sequoias Act. The legislation paves the way to formalize a clear path forward on how we can combine our strengths to safeguard the sequoias.’”

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“We light fire. We don’t chase it, we work with it.” youtu.be/AskCYsXWKpA?...

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Culture, fire, koalas, and technology: "The collaboration between technology and Traditional Owners and looking after the environment is really important. We know the ways of the animals but having this technology will advance our research. We need more women out caring for Country."

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Good, in-depth article. Let’s get some of that funding to Tribes in the southern Sierra, too! ictnews.org/news/cultura...

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The southern Sierra Nevada and the Transverse & Peninsular ranges may not have the habitat and food & water resources to support grizzlies right now, but if the right people burn it in the right way, they will come. phys.org/news/2025-04...

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This has been weighing heavy on my mind recently. What young person wants to work for a government that senior leadership has fled, and that has laid off thousands of new employees? The future of federal employment is so bleak.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Great opinion column here, and I appreciate the gift article. I wonder if my alma maters (and former employers), Cornell and Prescott, could operate more like Bard. After some googling, I’m saddened that it seems Bard has shut down its California teacher ed program. Anyone know anything about that?

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Agency depopulation: “Employees at the Forest Service, the NRSC and the General Counsel’s Office…described a rush by senior employees and managers to leave the USDA before the expected reductions in force sweep still more out of their jobs.”

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“Viewing fire as a medicine, this method of burning forests and grasslands — what are today known as prescribed, controlled, cultural or traditional burns — also limited the threat of devastating wildfires blazing out of control.” indiginews.com/features/cul...

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City poppies

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“The map shared by the Secretary is both vague and misleading…The chaotic and haphazard nature of the Secretarial Order’s release raises serious concerns about how these maps were produced, and who is really making decisions about Trump forest policy.”

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USDA directs federal personnel to increase timber quotas by 25%. A map accompanying the order with areas targeted by the declaration shows large swaths of California, including the Angeles, San Bernardino, Los Padres and Cleveland national forests. www.desertsun.com/story/news/e...

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

So long, Smokey: 10 USFS regional offices to be consolidated into as few as three. All 5 research stations to be pared back. All 154 National Forests to be consolidated. The wildland fire division to be moved into another part of the government. The Washington USFS office to be “hollowed out.”

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Welp… “A federal news website for federal employees, Government Executive, reported the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) would consolidate ten regional offices down the three and cut the agency's research arm, which employs about 1,500 people.”

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Great story: "The learning went both ways. “They were learning about our culture — we were also learning from other people who have been working with fires for years. “It's not just about Indigenous people, it's that you have non-Aboriginal people working with us and it acts as reconciliation.”

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I dont have full access to this article but things sound pretty serious for the USFS: “The Trump administration is gearing up to drastically reorganize the U.S. Forest Service, consolidating the agency from nine regional offices to three and cutting additional staff.”

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"The purpose of this cultural burn is to reduce hazardous fuels for community protection while supporting evacuation routes and establishing areas to engage in fire suppression. This burn will also increase the abundance and productivity for specific food and medicinal plants."

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The U.S. Forest Service announced Monday that it will temporarily prohibit commercial picking of huckleberries this summer in Gifford Pinchot National Forest in southwestern Washington. ✏️ @jwoolington.bsky.social

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Fire for fauna

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“Fire leads to increased productivity, increased flowering, seed release and dispersal and improved germination. All of this helps koalas… “Traditional practices keep the fire at a ground level, ensuring tree dwellers such as koalas can escape up trees to avoid the flames.”

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“wildfire resilience…requires thinking about how to lay out homes to make them more defensible in the path of an approaching wildfire, such as by adding buffer zones between heavily vegetated wildlands and housing developments, and building a road network that’s more conducive to evacuation.”

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Steven Donziger: “the case was never just about Greenpeace. It was about using the organization as a proxy to attack the Standing Rock Sioux’s autonomy, leadership and sovereignty” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Great field day today to wrap up SSBC’s weeklong wildland firefighters training

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“Tactics used by the Dayak people to manage fires include months of preparation of a burn site by slashing fuels to pretreat and cure them, cutting, burning, and scraping fire line perimeters to control changing fuel conditions, slope, and locations where a fire could breach containment lines.”

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Great first day today at the Sierra-Sequoia Burn Cooperative’s “Basic 32” Wildland Firefighters Training! Many thanks to Big Sandy Rancheria or hosting, TNC instructors, participants from BSR, Cold Springs, North Fork, & Dunlap, plus funding from the Sierra Nevada Conservancy and UC Merced.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment