Listening again, appreciating musical and lyrical complexities, the contrast of the interrogator’s memories of sport-fishing up north with the “Indian’s” subsistence fishing down south, the overall metaphor of taking the bait, the interrogatee’s refusal. He’ll be OK, they’re waiting for him at home.

Jared Dahl Aldern@jdaldern.bsky.social · 2d ago

Fishing, by Richard Shindell. A song about the interrogation of an immigrant. It’s mostly the interrogator speaking but the interrogatee speaks at the end. youtube.com/watch?v=NNWm...

Questions sparked by this story: 1) Could Rx & cultural burns reduce emissions and increase sequestration in the southern Sierra, or do they only flatten emissions peaks & troughs, w/ no added C storage? 2) Could Tribal burning initiatives generate revenue from the California cap-and-trade program?

Fishing, by Richard Shindell. A song about the interrogation of an immigrant. It’s mostly the interrogator speaking but the interrogatee speaks at the end. youtube.com/watch?v=NNWm...

Fishing

YouTube video by Richard Shindell - Topic

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This burn announcement includes a bulleted list of recommended actions for the public to take during the burn. I’m thinking it would be good for us fire practitioners to include such a list in the public information releases for our prescribed and cultural burns over here in the southern Sierra.

Culturally Informed Cool Burn Set for Hillsborough

Bindelong Aboriginal Corporation is planning to conduct a prescribed culturally informed cool burn in Hillsborough from Tuesday 4 to Wednesday 5

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BC's future wildfire strategies may look like this. @nichecanada.bsky.social The 2018 Abbott and Chapman report, and BC's follow-up action plan, seemed to be heading this way www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/p...

Jared Dahl Aldern@jdaldern.bsky.social · 3d ago

High tech and high TEK: Remote sensing maps fuel moisture content across the landscape, and then Indigenous observation of vegetation color, scent, canopy cover, soil moisture, etc. confirms good locations for cultural burns. www.aol.com/articles/aus...

High tech and high TEK: Remote sensing maps fuel moisture content across the landscape, and then Indigenous observation of vegetation color, scent, canopy cover, soil moisture, etc. confirms good locations for cultural burns. www.aol.com/articles/aus...

How Australia combines modern tech and Indigenous knowledge to fight wildfires - AOL

As Europe faces its worst wildfires in decades, Australia offers lessons in disaster preparedness.

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“We paid attention to what’s happening on the land, and we could see a change in the area we burned,” said Wynne. “We were going through a drought and experienced a heat dome, but the area we burned stayed green longer. Different plants began to grow there."

Healing with Fire: The Spokane Tribal Network’s Journey to Restore Cultural Burns and Native Foods | U.S. Department of the Interior

The Spokane Tribal Network is working to demonstrate the Spokane Tribe’s practice of cultural burns to nurture a healthy environment and improve the Tribe’s food sovereignty.

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This is a good article with @jennifergrenz.bsky.social explaining how Indigenous stewardship restores healthy land for everyone, even on land already suffering severe damage caused by burning fossil fuels (high temps, shallow snowpacks, drought, dry soil, erratic rain, intense wildfires, etc.).

‘Wildfires are now a crisis’: Indigenous communities knew how to care for the land; then the rest of us arrived

‘Wildfires are now a crisis’: Indigenous communities knew how to care for the land; then the rest of us arrived.

thepointer.com

“Fire unquestionably commands respect and understanding. But relating to it, perhaps seeing it as a living force in need of cultivation—a need mutual to people and elements— offers a robust ecological counterpoint to fire suppression and one worth investigating in Black life.”

Fire Suppression, the Carceral State, and Black Ecological Knowledge - AAIHS

As I write, major wildfires burn in the state of California. A mixture of droughts, human-altered landscapes, dense vegetation, and development have resulted in over 4.1 million acres burned this year...

aaihs.org

"We need to start looking at this much larger and much more holistically from a landscape perspective and recognizing that vegetation will grow back." www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

What Canadian communities can do to reduce wildfire risk | CBC

While U.S. President Donald Trump calls out Canadian wildfire management, communities across the country are seeking to mitigate the impacts of fires. Experts say not every fire can be stopped, but Fi...

cbc.ca

How is this going to get done? Where is the money going to come from? “The [reforestation] strategy calls for streamlining planning, prioritizing projects tackling critical human safety concerns and ecosystem issues like water supply, and increasing the supply of seeds, seedlings and workers…”

California is losing its forests faster than it can replant them — and no one has enough seeds, staff, or money to catch up

California needs to ramp up reforestation to keep pace with wildfires — instead, funding and staff keep shrinking.

calmatters.org

Please pay close attention to what Elizabeth Washoe has to say in this article. “Like many in California, Washoe’s people still pay homage to grizzlies through ceremonial bear dances, but she said it’s not ‘ethically right to bring them back.’” www.kqed.org/news/1209254...

They’re on Our Flag, but Do Long-Gone Grizzly Bears Belong in Modern California? | KQED

Democrats are advancing a bill over objections from rural residents, ranchers and Republicans that would study whether California should bring back grizzly bears.

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An example for Europe to follow: look "at the bigger picture — restoring wetlands to make an ecosystem more resilient in the face of fires, or reintroducing native species... "'A healthy landscape […] can more easily adapt to these fire events that we're seeing,' said @amycardinal.bsky.social"

Fighting wildfires is getting harder — these tips could help

With Spain declaring a national emergency, France seeking EU assistance and Canada dealing with more than 900 hot spots, wildfires are out of control. How can we stop our forests from burning out of c...

dw.com

To me, this song by Julian Taylor is about both what we inherit from our ancestors in the deep past and also what we leave for our descendants in the far future. youtube.com/watch?v=6Zni...

Julian Taylor Long Time Ago [Lyric Video]

YouTube video by Julian Taylor

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Burning by color: "As soon as those [plants] start to brown off, they're actually telling us they need fire… We want to see that nice black ash in there — if we've got all white ash, that's usually telling us there was too much fuel in there and it burnt too hot…”

After buying 134 'remarkable' hectares, Paul Davis wanted to protect them

Paul Davis has made it his mission to conserve his ecologically significant property, and he's bringing together a diverse group of people to help him do it.

abc.net.au

In Australia: “By bridging the gap between western hazard reduction and cultural burning, the program allowed women to protect cultural heritage while fostering deep personal healing and lifelong professional networks rooted in shared lived experiences.” www.monash.edu/news/article...

First Nations women in fire: a vital opportunity to boost the workforce and increase community safety

A new report reveals supporting First Nations women in fire management is critical for protecting Australian communities from escalating climate disasters.

monash.edu

Bianca says, "I see parallels in human experience, specifically the necessity of releasing what is no longer sustainable and tending to emotional overgrowth before it ignites into catastrophe."

An upcoming art exhibit draws from the indigenous practice of cultural fire

Bianca Velaquez is a Salt Lake City-based beadwork and multidisciplinary artist with an upcoming exhibit, "Prescribed Burn".

fox13now.com

I get why climate deniers don’t want to hear it, but why is it so hard for climate hawks to accept what Colleen Reid is saying here? The world is warming so fuels are drier, *and* fire suppression has led to a buildup of those now highly flammable fuels. Let’s reduce emissions *and* tend the forest.

Link between raging wildfires and climate change is greater than ever

Human-caused climate change is driving many of the wildfires burning across Canada. What's harder to say is how much worse the planet is because of warming global temperatures.

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"For Tribal Nations, nothing exists in pieces. Water, land, ancestors, culture, language, treaty rights, and future generations are inseparable. Yet our governments continue to evaluate them as though they can be compartmentalized." nativenewsonline.net/opinion/a-tr...

A Trail of Broken Promises: The Farce that is Tribal Consultation

Guest Opinion I have spent the last decade fighting Line 5 and the proposed Great Lakes Tunnel Project. In that time, I have sat across the table from nearly every state and federal agency that has au...

nativenewsonline.net

"It’s an irony lost on no one that the same policies that disconnected tribal members from their history also enabled the fires that then allowed them to rediscover it." (I opened the article in my browser & used "reader view" to get past the paywall...)

Jared Dahl Aldern@jdaldern.bsky.social · 2w ago

Not sure if there’s a way around the paywall here, but I will say that similar things are happening in the southern Sierra Nevada. Wildfires are transforming people‘s understanding of cultural history. Agencies and NGOs are slowly adapting to how Tribes want to drive post-fire restoration plans.

Not sure if there’s a way around the paywall here, but I will say that similar things are happening in the southern Sierra Nevada. Wildfires are transforming people‘s understanding of cultural history. Agencies and NGOs are slowly adapting to how Tribes want to drive post-fire restoration plans.

After wildfires destroyed 95% of this California tribe's forests, members uncovered 1,200 ancestral sites

After devastating fires turned their forest into a moonscape, members of the Konkow Valley Band of Maidu found evidence of their vibrant tribal history everywhere.

latimes.com

Wise words from the North. I would add that an insistence on a history of infrequent, stand-replacing fires is as colonial in Southern California as it is in the boreal forest. It’s insisting the land was empty when, in fact, people lived and burned throughout a varied, abundant cultural landscape.

Fire Stewardship: Upholding Indigenous Sovereignty - International Association of Wildland Fire

In recent years there has been a steep rise in Arctic fire activity, including the unprecedented 2023 Arctic wildfire season that captured worldwide attention. Due to a warmer climate and extended spr...

iawfonline.org

Sorry, but citing Zeke Hausfather as an “expert” on fire in the boreal forest does not bolster your argument. Read @amycardinal.bsky.social et al. instead: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Centering Indigenous Voices: The Role of Fire in the Boreal Forest of North America - Current Forestry Reports

Purpose of Review Indigenous perspectives have often been overlooked in fire management in North America. With a focus on the boreal region of North America, this paper provides a review of the existi...

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Back in the day, an East Dakota could have been a socialist powerhouse. So, yes, “the powers that were” saw an opportunity for two new states and they were careful not to draw the state line at the Missouri River but to divide the territory north & south so West River conservatives could hold sway.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3w ago

I hate that we have two Dakotas. Republicans got greedy for new states in the 1880s and we're still paying for that a century and a half later. Two states that, when combined, have the same population as The Bronx. They shouldn't get four senators.

The selling out of Bears Ears and dismantling of tribal-federal costewardship is part of “a broader project of white nationalism on the part of this administration,” says Monte Mills, director of the Native American Law Center at U. of Washington. www.hcn.org/articles/bea...

Bears Ears cuts also end first-of-its-kind tribal land commission  - High Country News

A presidential proclamation slashed the monument by 90% despite a promise to involve tribes.

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To write that the horses “became free,” as @kurtisalexander.bsky.social does here, is to distort history and elide the reasoning behind the Tribal lawsuit’s invocation of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Hundreds of wild horses moved into the Mono Lake area. The feds just rounded them up

The controversial roundup netted more than 450 wild horses, which had trampled grasses and used picturesque tufa towers as scratching posts, officials say. The captives are up for adoption.

sfchronicle.com

"Vine Deloria, Jr. had no time for posers. He wasn't interested in talking radical for the non-Native world; he was busy being dangerous." —Thomas Michael Swensen, "Where Next, Columbus? A Native Punk Mixtape"

I had a joke about Hades but I decided I’d better not go there.

Sludge "Ned Ludd Was Right" McIntyre@alexei-dot-exe.bsky.social · 3w ago

i had a joke about Theseus but it's actually made up of bits i took from other jokes about Theseus and slotted in, so is it really my original joke anymore?

I have a joke about Cassandra but nobody wants to hear it.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 3w ago

I have a joke about Timothus but last time I told it? Crickets.

Wildfire smoke war! The US is retaliating by sending smoke from fires in Oregon and Washington State into Canada. What do they say about smoke and borders? GOES-West geocolor loop below.