The overlooked solution to deadly wildfires

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.

🌲 Read more about how fire can save our forests: https://www.universityofcalifornia.ed...

🔥 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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