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SF Chronicle: California Native American Tribe Has Been Burning Forests for 10,000 Years. What Can We Learn From Them?

The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting a story about the Karuk Tribe’s ancestral tradition of using prescribed burning techniques to fight off wildfires. The article follows Leeon Hillman, a member of the Karuk Tribe who “believes preventive burning would have thinned undergrowth and slowed the spread of fire enough for firefighters to be able to […]

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