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Bill Tripp

@culturalfire.bsky.social
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Cultural fire practitioner, network bridge, place based steward engaging locally, regionally, and nationally. Helping to bring fire back to the people through a collective co-visioning in the good fire movement.

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
AB 1699 “The Good Fire Act”: Effective immediately! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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The Good Fire Act Summary.docx
The Good Fire Act (AB 1699, Rogers, 2026) Over the last decade, the State of California has enacted policy reforms to help support the expanded use of beneficial fire (including prescribed fire, cul...
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Now that it is almost a year later, it makes me incredibly happy to see this great article resurface!
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is one of the more rewarding videos I have had the pleasure of being part of. It is critically vital we get our youth involved in this and get back to fire use as a community practice.
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Great read. Maybe more relevant today than it was a year ago… www.sightline.org/2024/04/11/w...
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What’s Misunderstood about Indigenous Cultural Fire Is Sovereignty | Sightline Institute
Lessons from the Karuk Tribe.
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Great video about the Reserverved Treaty Rights Lands program in Montana. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9grv...
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Reserved Treaty Rights Lands Program: The Power of Partnership
YouTube video by The Nature Conservancy
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Thanks for coming to visit and tell our stories @sadbumblebee.buzz ! Great to finally see the drone footage @byaliceli.bsky.social …
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Wildfire, prescribed fire, AND cultural burning at the same time, in the same place. This is what right looks like in Karuk Territory! vimeo.com/1120338306?f...
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Three Burns - The 2025 Butler Wildfire
In order to protect homes during the this summer’s Butler Fire on the Salmon River in Siskiyou County, local organizations with All Hands All Lands program…
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Great article by @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social of @boisestatepublicradio.org! www.boisestatepublicradio.org! www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/...
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With reforms in place, California’s Karuk Tribe works to reestablish cultural burning as 'common practice'
For millennia, Indigenous peoples have intentionally set fires to care for the land. Colonization and fire exclusion largely put an end to those practices, though the tradition endured. Now, Californi...
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
www.siskiyou.news/2025/07/10/k...
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Karuk Tribe’s Fire Stewardship Shines Amid Wildfires - Siskiyou News
As wildfires tear through Northern California’s rugged terrain, the Karuk Tribe leads a quieter, deliberate fire on the other side of the mountain. In the Siskiyou region, their cultural fire practiti...
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Good read, you can’t just take thousands of years of cultural practice from a place without impacts. We must bring fire back to the people. We must perpetuate the practices that currently declining species have come to depend. We must revitalize our indigenous knowledge, practice, and belief systems
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I just gotta say, way to pull our collective works into a great and timely news story… We hope to tie in with Quartz Valley this coming late winter to help spur positive fire outcomes with our neighbors to the northeast as well… 🙂 www.siskiyou.news/2025/07/10/k...
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Karuk Tribe’s Fire Stewardship Shines Amid Wildfires - Siskiyou News
As wildfires tear through Northern California’s rugged terrain, the Karuk Tribe leads a quieter, deliberate fire on the other side of the mountain. In the Siskiyou region, their cultural fire practiti...
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
As federal, tribal, state and local firefighters respond to the 2025 Butler fire, the All Hands All Lands burn team implemented a prescribed fire on private property near Butler Creek. A cultural burn was conducted near Tribal homes. This is how things should be done.
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
There is a long overdue conversation happening on Facebook in regard to these Northern California wilderness fires. If we are serious about changing the paradigm, let’s start now!
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Karuk Tribal Youth Forestry Camp participants, led by Cultural Fire Practitioners under an SB 310 agreement, pulled off an unplanned cultural burn without incident this week. So much easier when experienced people can go to where conditions are right to make good things like this happen! :-)
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
See today’s testimony I delivered on the Tribal Self Determination and Comanagement in Forestry Act at this link. My portion starts at the 1:33:16 mark. There is much more included in the written testimony. But a 5 minute summary is a five minute summary. naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eve...
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Hearings | House Committee on Natural Resources
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I am receiving an honorary doctorate today during the commencement ceremony beginning at 12:00 pm. click here to view live commencement.humboldt.edu/live
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Live streaming - Class of 2025, Spring Commencement | CommencementCal Poly HumboldtCal Poly Humboldt
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Getting back to our roots… medium.com/@intertribal...
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Good Fire and Strong Sovereignty: Cultural Burning as a Path to Indigenous-Led Forest Stewardship
By Bill Tripp
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I love working with these people. Looking forward to the next 10 years. fireadaptednetwork.org/10-years-of-...
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Igniting Change Over 10 Years of the Indigenous Peoples Burning Network - Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network
By Fire Networks Staff
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Healing Water: magazine.rotary.org/rotary/may_2...
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Healing Water
In that dismal December of 2015, it was hard to say who was more bereft...
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Priorities… :-) youtu.be/AskCYsXWKpA?...
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Controlled Burns Prevent Wildfire | Firelighters: Fire is Medicine | Full Film | Local, USA
YouTube video by WORLD
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
More news on cultural burning if there are still folks out there needing to hear the message! ictnews.org/news/cultura...
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Cultural burning: ‘Fire teaches us many lessons’
Haruk Tribe signs historic agreement with California to remove barriers to use of ‘good fire’ in land stewardship
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
A message from Jim Durglo, a long time indigenous forest and fire management advocate. medium.com/@intertribal...
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CULTURAL BURNING HAS LESSONS FOR TODAY’S SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT
By Jim Durglo
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
An important message from a fellow thought leader in fire and one of the most passionate speakers I know. the-lookout.org/2025/04/05/w...
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Will Harling Speaks on Burning at the Landscape Scale - The Lookout
If you’ve followed our work, you’ve probably heard about my friend and colleague, Will Harling, who is a leader in bringing community-based prescribed fire back to the Klamath River after a century of...
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
It truly is a great honor to be recognized in this way… a special thanks to each and every one of you that have touched the very foundations of this in so many ways… you know who you are!Yootva to you all from the very center of my being. kymkemp.com/2025/04/15/c...
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Cal Poly Humboldt Awards Honorary Doctorate of Humane Sciences to Karuk Cultural Fire Visionary
“Tripp exemplifies Cal Poly Humboldt’s 21st-century polytechnic identity by centering Indigenous Knowledge in applied sciences to address real-world problems and enhance people’s lives locally…
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Looking for someone that can lead the Indigenous Stewardship Network and help progress a new era if indigenous stewardship throughout California. jobs.gusto.com/postings/ind...
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Network Director (Remote - California Based) at Indigenous Stewardship Network
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
How the Klamath Dams Came Down! grist.org/project/indi...
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How the Klamath Dams Came Down
Last year, tribes in Oregon and California pulled off the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story.
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BC Wildfire Weekly - Wildfires + More @bcwildfirewkly.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
“Karuk Tribe right to cultural burning affirmed in agreement with California” www.cbc.ca/news/indigen... - CBC News #CAFire #CulturalBurning #Indigenous
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Karuk Tribe right to cultural burning affirmed in agreement with California | CBC News
A first of it's kind agreement between a tribe in northern California could prevent the build-up of wildfire fuel, First Nations firekeepers in Canada say.
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Hope other States and Tribes also choose this path as we embark on this new era of shared stewardship! kmud.org/karuk-tribe-...
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Karuk Tribe and California Natural Resources Agency Finalize Historic Agreement to Advance Tribal Sovereignty and Cultural Fire Practices - KMUD | Redwood Community Radio
California is making a historic move to honor tribal sovereignty, passing a new cultural burning law and establishing the first-ever cultural burning agreement with the Karuk Tribe, which has lived on...
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“Karuk has been a national thought leader on cultural fire,” said Geneva E.B. Thompson... [CNRA] …“So, it makes sense that they would be a natural first partner in this space because they have a really clear mission and core commitment to get this work done.” www.latimes.com/environment/...
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California tribe enters first-of-its-kind agreement with the state to practice cultural burns
After suppression of Indigenous cultural burning, the state agrees Northern California's Karuk Tribe may practice the burns more freely than it has in over 175 years.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
“You don't just live in a fire environment like this without developing an integral relationship with it.” @culturalfire.bsky.social www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/...
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Indigenous people learned to live with fire. What can we learn from their traditions?
Many Tribes have shown that cultural, intentional fire can restore forests and actually heal the land. What would going back to a large-scale practice of cultural burning look like and how could it be...
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
These places that are burning need our help. Listen in to this episode and d Science Friday
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
“We're still rebuilding our relationship with [fire] and it's always going to be an ongoing process,” Walker says. “But ultimately, it's up to what you're doing with your own hands that makes the difference.” www.capradio.org/205221
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‘It’s a tool, it’s an ally’: Why an Indigenous-led burning group wants to change California’s relationship to fire
The Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance, or TERA, is a Lake County-based group dedicated to changing attitudes around intentional fire and sharing knowledge with a new generation of burners.
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“It’s not just knowledge for knowledge’s sake. It’s about how to steward this place, it's about actively, physically tending to this place and rebuilding these sacred relationships.'" - Aja Conrad, www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/...
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In northern California, the Karuk Tribe is burning its way back to a centuries-old relationship with fire
The Karuk of Northern California are one of many Native peoples with a long tradition of burning their ancestral lands. These practices are key inspiration for an annual prescribed fire training that’...
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Happy reading, you wonderful blue sky people! :-) escholarship.org/uc/psf
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Parks Stewardship Forum
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
In solidarity with all the good people celebrating Klamath dam removal in Arcata yhis evening!https://youtu.be/J9TTgV3wzQ8
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KLAMATH (Undammed Official Music Video!!)
YouTube video by Brett McFarland
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Today is the day! Please give to the Karuk DNR Eco-Cultural Revitalization Fund as part of #GivingTuesday24! Your support will help support community building, Indigenous sovereignty, collaboration and environmental stewardship. #culturalfire
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
As 2023 draws to an end, we are so grateful for all the support of the Karuk DNR. We’re excited to share that we have a $5k match for our year end fundraising campaign until midnight on December 31st. You can donate by following this link: connect.clickandpledge.com/Organization... #EndowActionNow
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
It’s been a long road, but we published the report! It’s been an honor to serve on this commission and I look forward to working with many of you on pushing the recommendations across the finish line! www.usda.gov/sites/defaul...
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
This is such a fun way to learn what others are learning at your own pace… :-) m.youtube.com/watch?v=M5mOm1KmcFU&f…
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Xánthiip (Black oak) Ecocultural Stewardship; Pikyav Lecture Series, 5.3.23, with Jessie Thoreson
Jessie did her master's thesis at the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University in collaboration with the Karuk Tribe Department...
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 02/08/2023
Great day of futuring with Undersecretary Wilkes, Chief Moore, Karuk Council, and staffs with a bit of Slater Fire realities immersion.
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 02/08/2023
Great session for those that missed it amidst the Twitter exodus. This is Bill Tripp Starting the process of transitioning to blue sky social once again as @culturalfire.bsky.social www.canr.msu.edu/news/fcwg-forest-c…
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