L.A. Fires: Recovery & Rebuilding
Living With Wildfire
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The return of cultural burning to the Yurok tribal lands revived land management that provides essential materials and cultural significance to the people who live on the land.
After a large-scale fire burned through a palm tree grove in Thermal, CA, all of the palms were assumed dead. But one pastor and his congregation prayed for a miracle.
Reflecting on the canyon wonderland's millennia-long history reveals something more complicated and darker.
California's big trees wouldn't be what they are without an important contribution from East Asia.
When fire can't thin forests, we get more trees than we'd have otherwise — and now there isn't enough water to keep them all alive.
Make sure your treats don't play nasty tricks on our endangered ape cousins.
Cultural burning can still play a beneficial role in California's landscape
From food to fiber, fire boosts the Sierra Nevada's bounty.
How the U.S. Forest Service chose fire suppression as its official policy a century ago.
Ironically, Smokey the Bear would actually live better if his forest home burned every now and then.
The park-like forests of the 19th Century Sierra Nevada were sustained by carefully planned fires conducted by Native people.
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Suppressed for over a century, indigenous cultural burning is still practiced today.