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Indigenous stewardship rights and opportunities to recenter Indigenous fire
Year: 2025
Wild and intentionally ignited fires are not new to North American landscapes or to the Indigenous cultures whose ancestral places encompass them. For millennia, Indigenous fire stewardship has been regionally and locally distributed across North American ecosystems. These practices reshaped fire regimes to provide safe living and foraging conditions and reduced wildfires and their emissions prior to Euro-American colonization. Euro-American colonization impacts initially included introduction of foreign diseases and widespread genocide, which broadly diminished the extent of Indigenous fire…
Publication Type: Journal Article
Awareness and Social Interactions Influence Natural Resource Professionals’ Recommendations for Prescribed Fire Use
Year: 2025
Restoring fire in fire-adapted ecosystems is necessary to curtail woody plant expansion, enhance biodiversity, and reduce wildfire risks, yet prescribed fire is promoted less by federal agencies than other grassland conservation practices. The U.S. Department of Agriculture…
Fire and Rangelands, Prescribed Burning, Public Perceptions of Fire and Smoke, Restoration and Hazardous Fuel Reduction
Publication Type: Journal Article