Karuk Tribe

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In northern California, the Karuk Tribe is burning its way back to a centuries-old relationship with fire

Murphy Woodhouse

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’s been going on for more than a decade.
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For a decade, a northern California program has built prescribed fire capacity informed by Indigenous tradition

Murphy Woodhouse

The Klamath Prescribed Fire Training Exchange – or KTREX – has been held Northern California since 2014. Part of what sets it apart from similar efforts is the central role played by the Karuk Tribe, and the emphasis on their cultural burning practices. Like many Native people, the Karuk have a time immemorial tradition of burning on their ancestral lands, and many point to it as a key inspiration for thinking of new and better ways to live with fire.
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Feds Recommend Removing Four Dams on the Klamath River

The Interior Department today recommended removing four dams on the Klamath River by the year 2020. The dam removal is proposed as part of a settlement to…