cultural fire
Indigenous peoples have stewarded the land and used fire on landscapes around the world since time immemorial and are active stewards of the land today. This page provides several resources for learning more about cultural fire and how to develop respectful and equitable relationships with Indigenous fire practitioners, researchers, and tribal communities.
Featured Resources
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Trainings
Indian Country 101: An Online Tribal Engagement Training Series Built with Natural Resource Practitioners in Mind
This free, self-paced tribal engagement training launched was by The Nature Conservancy to assist non-tribal organizations in moving towards right relations with tribal partners. The training has two courses: 101 lays out the history and context for tribal engagement across the country, while course 102 builds upon the fundamentals, focusing specifically on tribes located in Washington State. Click here to access the training.
webinars
A Primer on Tribal Forest Protection Act and 638 Authority, Jonathon Martin, Director of the Native American Forest and Rangeland Management Program at the Ecological Restoration Institute (ERI) at Northern Arizona University (NAU); Lindsey Quam, Deputy State Forester and Tribal Liaison at New Mexico Forestry Division
Cultural Burning and Collaborative Fire Research and Management: Approaches for Respectfully Partnering with Tribes, Dr. Frank Lake, USFS
Tribes and Fire: Rebuilding Connections with Communities, Fire, and the Land, Monique Wynecoop, BIA
Incorporating Indigenous Knowledges into Federal Research and Management, Webinar series hosted by USGS National Climate Adaptation Science Center
Articles, Books, and Chapters
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The Importance of Indigenous Cultural Burning in Forested Regions of the Pacific West, USA
It’s Taken Thousands of Years, But Western Science is Finally Catching Up to Traditional Knowledge
Indigenous Burning Shaped Forests over a Long History, Suggest Multiple Information Sources
Integration of Traditional and Western Knowledge in Forest Landscape Restoration
Centering Indigenous Voices: The Role of Fire in the Boreal Forest of North America
The Politics of Fire and the Social Impacts of Fire Exclusion on the Klamath
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Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia
Forgotten fires: Native Americans and the transient wilderness
Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning History)
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Recordings from afe events
Indigenous Erasure in Fire Ecology, presented by Amy Cardinal Christianson, Frank K. Lake, Monique Wynecoop at the 2023 Fire Congress
Putting Cultural Fire Back on the Land, presented by The Honorable Ron W. Goode, North Fork Mono Tribe at the 2023 Fire Congress
Indigenous and Local Ecological Knowledge, panel at the 2022 Fire Across Boundaries Conference
Advances and Challenges for Indigenous Fire Stewardship (Session 1, Session 2, and Fire Circle Discussion), presented by multiple speakers online at the 2021 Fire Congress
