Lee Klinger PhD
@suddenoaklife.bsky.social
Ecologist, Dept. of Natural Resources, Esselen Tribe Big Sur. Author of "Forged by Fire: The Cultural Tending of Trees and Forests in Big Sur and Beyond" (2024) www.suddenoaklife.org
In Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs are also requesting support.
Johnnie Jae@johnniejae.bsky.social · last wk.The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs are asking the community to support wildfire response efforts as the Bench Fire continues to threaten the reservation. redpopnews.com/confederated...
Here is a link to one of my websites with maps and the database on archeological sites in America older than 11,200 years. This was done in 2021 since then I have documented many other sites that are older. www.tipdba.ca/about-dr-ste...
About Dr. Steeves | TIPDBA.CA
Dr. Paulette Steeves (Cree Metis) Indigenous Archaeologist Canada Research Chair Tier II Indigenous History Healing and Reconciliation Tenured Associate Professor at Algoma University
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Happy Winter Solstice! This coast redwood is feeling the LOVE today. (Yearly images taken on the same date and at the same time if day.) #SaveTheRedwoods #FireMimicry 🍁🔥🌳🌎
It's not all about the oaks here at Sudden Oak Life. We care for pines too ... #PineHealth #FireMimicry 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅🌰
Monterey pines on the mend
Yesterday I checked up on a grove of Monterey pines that have had a couple of fire mimicry treatments …
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Turns out that reviving oaks is not too difficult ...🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌰 #OakHealth #FireMimicry #SuddenOakLife
Coast live oaks regaining their health in Monterey CA
Four years ago I began fire mimicry treatments on a grove of coast live oaks overlooking Monterey, CA. I’m quite pleased with the results but I’ll let trees speak for themselves …
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Yesterday I visited an oak grove in Monterey that was hit hard by an oakworm infestation in 2017. Following a couple of fire mimicry treatments the oaks seem to be recovering nicely! 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅🌰 #OakHealth #Oakworm #FireMimicry
More results on a non-toxic treatment for oakworm infestations in coastal California
Last year I shared a post on a non-toxic treatment for oakworm infestations here on the Central Coast of California. In that post I stated: “In 2017 there was a severe oakworm infestation of …
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Moving forward, one tree at a time ... #OakHealth #SuddenOakDeath #SuddenOakLife #FireMimicry 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅🌰
Another successful canker surgery on an ancient coast live oak
This is a 2017 image of an old-growth coast live oak in Monterey that I’ve been treating with fire mimicry for eight years. At that time it had bleeding stem canker infection, possibly Sudden…
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Different burn cycles for different landscapes: every 15 years, or seven years, four years, two years… It depends. infonews.ca/news/7435899...
Amid climate impacts, leading Secwépemc firekeeper shares ‘a better way of looking after the land’ | iNFOnews.ca
In a time of worsening wildfires, Joe Gilchrist says cultural burning ‘needs to be multiplied hundreds of times’ — returning to Indigenous stewardship.
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I love my job! 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅🌰 #FireMimicry #OakHealth #SuddenOakLife
Oaks in Fulton Feeling the Love
Yesterday I examined a grove of coast live oaks that have undergone fire mimicry treatments for the past five years. Some of these oaks are centuries old and show signs of being tended by the Nativ…
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@bigthink.com Fascinating article by Ethan. My question is if there is a significant amount of information exchanged in the energy of a system, or within the universe, would that flow change the total energy of the system? bigthink.com/starts-with-...
Starts With A Bang
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Here is an excellent article explaining why I've been so focused these last 10 years on building a relationship with the local Esselen Tribe and helping steward their lands. My hope is that more of you will start forming a relationship with your local tribes. They have much to teach us! 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅
The Future of Conservation: Indigenous Ways Meet Western Science
Collaboration and co-stewardship are bringing positive change across the country
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Many of you have requested this, so here it is. For the love of trees please share! 🌲❤️🌎🍁🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅
Upcoming Workshop: Tending Oaks with Fire Mimicry
Hey fellow tree-huggers, especially those in SoCal, how would you like to learn about the health and care of our old-growth oak forests and what we can do to mitigate wildfires using the knowledge …
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“To make shared stewardship meaningful, tribes must be allowed to lead within our own homelands. This means entering into long-term agreements that don’t just invite tribal input but are built around tribal vision, tribal priorities, and tribal knowledge… It also means investing in our people.”
Time for Tribes to Lead on Wildfire and Other Forest Management Priorities
By Cody Desautel
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“You don’t go and burn all your berries at the same time,” @amycardinal.bsky.social explained. “Indigenous fire management is based on intervals—knowing when patches have been burned, which patches are getting overgrown. It’s not a one-time, one-off approach. It’s ongoing stewardship.”
The Role of Good Fire in Nourishing Boreal Berries — Boreal Conservation
Summer in the Boreal Forest means an abundance of berries—blueberries, strawberries, cloudberries, raspberries, bunchberries, and more. These berries help sustain bears, moose, and other animals. Peop...
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Karuk Tribe’s Fire Stewardship Shines Amid Wildfires - Siskiyou News
As wildfires tear through Northern California’s rugged terrain, the Karuk Tribe leads a quieter, deliberate fire on the other side of the mountain. In the Siskiyou region, their cultural fire practiti...
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“There’s a school of thought that you can just put a fence around a forest and keep people out, and it will be protected, which is a very old-school view, a very colonial view. It comes from this idea that we came to a land that was ‘empty’ and there for the taking.”
On Controlling Fire, New Lessons from a Deep Indigenous Past
For centuries, the Native people of North America used controlled burns to manage the continent's forests. In an e360 interview, ecologist Lori Daniels talks about the long history of Indigenous burni...
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The Signing Oak - Windsor Great Park, Berkshire Photo: Jeroen Philippona
Farms commonly spread crushed limestone on fields to make the soil less acidic. This practice is typically considered a source of emissions, but it may actually remove carbon from the atmosphere.
Sprinkling limestone on farms may offer an unexpected climate win
Farms commonly spread crushed limestone on fields to make the soil less acidic – and this practice can also help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
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“hundreds of hours of interviews with fire ecologists, botanists, members of County Fire, policymakers, and more were compiled to make a comprehensive guide of considerations and plans to bring back Chumash cultural fire.” www.independent.com/2025/07/16/i...
Introducing the Chumash Good Fire Project
The new initiative is bringing back cultural burns to indigenous lands.
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I like Abuela Lucinda Vásquez Morales’s list of the purposes of burning: to protect, strengthen, teach, feed, heal. Seems a good motto. Also how she & Maria Meza say “how important it is that Indigenous Women be officially recognized for their role as the leaders in these processes and practices.”
Jared Dahl Aldern@jdaldern.bsky.social · last yr.“we burn to teach, to feed and to heal.” www.fao.org/indigenous-p...
A study of a pyrogenic carbon deposit in the East China Sea finds evidence of a sharp increase in human fire use around 50,000 years ago, likely due to both population increases and the chilly temperatures associated with glacial periods. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
This week, there were hundreds if not thousands of brown pelicans, cormorants and osprey feeding on bait fish in the Klamath River estuary and plume. This is another sign the river is healing in response to dam removal.
“The man didn’t have to cut a fireline with a Pulaski or a chainsaw; he didn’t have to work in a bulldozer cutting a dozer line; and he didn’t have to have air support to keep the fire out of the trees. The snow did the work.”
Cultural burning: Wildfires in the Arctic – Wildfire Today
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I was in British Columbia last month to learn about wildfires, which got me thinking about how we see the forests around us, and how it is not necessarily good thinking. 1/x
“Cultural burning in spring after the snowmelt and in fall before the rains stimulates plant growth and opens the land to wildlife.” indiginews.com/features/on-...
In Gitanyow territories, restorative fire heals the land and people: 'I think it’s a beautiful thing' - Indiginews
A controlled burn demonstrates how bringing back ancient Indigenous fire practices helps restore cultural connections and strengthen communities while mitigating risk
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“When founded on the three pillars of respect (respect for self, others, and the environment), teaching fire provides a fantastic catalyst for the development of perseverance, patience, teamwork, nature connection, responsibility, community and survival skills.” educatedbynature.com/term-program...
The Importance of Teaching Fire - Educated by Nature
Teaching fire provides a fantastic catalyst for the development of perseverance, teamwork, nature connection, responsibility, community and survival skills.
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