Dr. Paulette Steeves (Cree Metis) Indigenous Archaeologist Canada Research Chair Tier II Indigenous History Healing and Reconciliation Tenured Associate Professor at Algoma University

Tomorrow is winter solstice and I would like to celebrate by sharing with you a redwood tree that I’ve been tending with fire mimicry for the past four years. Enjoy!

Yesterday I checked up on a grove of Monterey pines that have had a couple of fire mimicry treatments …

Four years ago I began fire mimicry treatments on a grove of coast live oaks overlooking Monterey, CA. I’m quite pleased with the results but I’ll let trees speak for themselves …

Last year I shared a post on a non-toxic treatment for oakworm infestations here on the Central Coast of California. In that post I stated: “In 2017 there was a severe oakworm infestation of …

This is a 2017 image of an old-growth coast live oak in Monterey that I’ve been treating with fire mimicry for eight years. At that time it had bleeding stem canker infection, possibly Sudden…

In a time of worsening wildfires, Joe Gilchrist says cultural burning ‘needs to be multiplied hundreds of times’ — returning to Indigenous stewardship.

Yesterday I examined a grove of coast live oaks that have undergone fire mimicry treatments for the past five years. Some of these oaks are centuries old and show signs of being tended by the Nativ…

Collaboration and co-stewardship are bringing positive change across the country

Hey fellow tree-huggers, especially those in SoCal, how would you like to learn about the health and care of our old-growth oak forests and what we can do to mitigate wildfires using the knowledge …

By Cody Desautel

Summer in the Boreal Forest means an abundance of berries—blueberries, strawberries, cloudberries, raspberries, bunchberries, and more. These berries help sustain bears, moose, and other animals. Peop...

This month, the California History-Social Science Project invited Brianna Tafolla Rivière to write a guest post about bringing indigenous history into your classroom. Brianna is a historian and PhD ca...

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...

For centuries, the Native people of North America used controlled burns to manage the continent's forests. In an e360 interview, ecologist Lori Daniels talks about the long history of Indigenous burni...

yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini (ytt) Northern Chumash Tribe brings back tinɨtʸu, "Good Fire" to ancestral homelands in a collaborative effort

Farms commonly spread crushed limestone on fields to make the soil less acidic – and this practice can also help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

The new initiative is bringing back cultural burns to indigenous lands.

A controlled burn demonstrates how bringing back ancient Indigenous fire practices helps restore cultural connections and strengthen communities while mitigating risk

Teaching fire provides a fantastic catalyst for the development of perseverance, teamwork, nature connection, responsibility, community and survival skills.

For thousands of years Indigenous Peoples have used fire to sustainably manage their lands, territories and natural resources. As ecological stewards, I...

The Yurok Fire Department recently led a cultural burn demonstration near the Blue Lake Rancheria’s events center during the third annual Cultural Burn Seminar.

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The actor, who was Comanche and White Mountain Apache, was shot in a targeted hate crime while protecting his husband.

A Canadian Indigenous leader who greeted world heads of state arriving for the Group of Seven summit says he was “filled with rage” and considered leaving before Donald Trump arrived.

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Lenya Quinn-Davidson is spearheading a UC-backed movement that empowers California citizens to fight fire with fire

Indigenous Peoples have long-shaped ecosystems through cultural burning. New cultural burning programs are often limited by an absence of understanding ecological burning responses. Here, we report t....

🇺🇸 NO KINGS: A Flag Day Rebellion for Democracy 🇺🇸 In America, we don’t bow to kings. We don’t crown rulers. And we don’t let symbols of freedom become props for power. This country began with a reb...

Video by my friend Sean Corwin. A more detailed discussion of the science, TEK, practice, and efficacy of fire mimicry is given in my 2024 book Forged by Fire: The Cultural Tending of Trees and For…

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