Jared Dahl Aldern
@jdaldern.bsky.social
Co-lead of the Sierra-Sequoia Burn Cooperative, a partnership of four California Native American Tribes and other landowners, fire practitioners, and researchers. Co-editor of a fire anthology forthcoming from Oregon State University Press, spring 2026.
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Jared Dahl Aldern
@jdaldern.bsky.social
· Mar 10
Yes, I offered this starter pack as a list of fire practitioners for y'all to follow, and I also regularly visit the Posts tab so I can keep up with what people are posting in this particular neck of the Bluesky woods.
“This marks the first return of cultural burning to the landscape since Tolowa Dee-ni’ were forcibly removed from the area in the 1850s and Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park was created in 1929.” kymkemp.com/2025/11/26/c...
Cultural Burning Returns to Tolowa Dee-ni’ Homelands at Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park
For the first time since the 1850s, Tolowa Dee-ni’ fire practitioners carried out a cultural burn at Peacock Bar, restoring traditional stewardship on 10 acres along the Smith River.
kymkemp.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“This marks the first return of cultural burning to the landscape since Tolowa Dee-ni’ were forcibly removed from the area in the 1850s and Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park was created in 1929.” kymkemp.com/2025/11/26/c...
Recommend what would work for a lot of species, namely, using fire to create a varied, patch-mosaic landscape with an abundance of food and water for these animals. www.hcn.org/articles/the...
The West’s vanishing porcupines - High Country News
Scientists are racing to figure out why porcupines are disappearing from their former stomping grounds.
www.hcn.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Recommend what would work for a lot of species, namely, using fire to create a varied, patch-mosaic landscape with an abundance of food and water for these animals. www.hcn.org/articles/the...
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.
infonews.ca
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Different burn cycles for different landscapes: every 15 years, or seven years, four years, two years… It depends. infonews.ca/news/7435899...
Song for the times
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Song for the times
Wishing for a reference to support this claim: “There is evidence that large amounts of downed dead trees that fall after a burn can increase overall fire intensity in places, and that their removal can reduce those impacts if done properly. But this applies only if the fine fuels are removed.”
Important commentary re logging and fire
Opinion piece: Removing #DeadTrees will not save us from fast-moving #wildfires. In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/qvta50XuOrz
#logging #ClimateChange #ForestFire
#logging #ClimateChange #ForestFire
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Wishing for a reference to support this claim: “There is evidence that large amounts of downed dead trees that fall after a burn can increase overall fire intensity in places, and that their removal can reduce those impacts if done properly. But this applies only if the fine fuels are removed.”
“Instead of only fearing and fighting fire, we can befriend it” www.kqed.org/arts/1398372...
‘Good Fire: Tending Native Lands’ Burns Bright at OMCA | KQED
The exhibit uplifts an Indigenous-led movement to revive intentional, beneficial fires.
www.kqed.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“Instead of only fearing and fighting fire, we can befriend it” www.kqed.org/arts/1398372...
To those who say, “clearing brush will not prevent wildfire in SoCal,” the main purpose of cultural fire in SoCal is not to protect houses & wilderness, it’s to produce food & materials, and to conserve animal habitat & water. But a tended landscape is also a less dangerous place for houses.
“‘When we’re using fire on the landscape, you could really think about it more as a form of agriculture, said Diego Cordero. ‘After these big fires here in the hills, you see flowers you probably hadn’t seen in decades popping up everywhere. A lot of those plants are actually our crops.’”
Taming Fire: Controlled burns can be a boon to our landscape
Prescribed burns can be a boon to our landscape, burning fuel to help prevent future wildfires, and giving an opportunity to research everything from plant and animal resiliency to land management.
news.ucsb.edu
November 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
To those who say, “clearing brush will not prevent wildfire in SoCal,” the main purpose of cultural fire in SoCal is not to protect houses & wilderness, it’s to produce food & materials, and to conserve animal habitat & water. But a tended landscape is also a less dangerous place for houses.
“This is a really comfortable, relaxing experience.” youtu.be/ZgnCX9aBe4U?...
I'm a Burner - Awesome Women Environmentalists
YouTube video by Northern California Public Media
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
“This is a really comfortable, relaxing experience.” youtu.be/ZgnCX9aBe4U?...
“‘When we’re using fire on the landscape, you could really think about it more as a form of agriculture, said Diego Cordero. ‘After these big fires here in the hills, you see flowers you probably hadn’t seen in decades popping up everywhere. A lot of those plants are actually our crops.’”
Taming Fire: Controlled burns can be a boon to our landscape
Prescribed burns can be a boon to our landscape, burning fuel to help prevent future wildfires, and giving an opportunity to research everything from plant and animal resiliency to land management.
news.ucsb.edu
November 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
“‘When we’re using fire on the landscape, you could really think about it more as a form of agriculture, said Diego Cordero. ‘After these big fires here in the hills, you see flowers you probably hadn’t seen in decades popping up everywhere. A lot of those plants are actually our crops.’”
I’m pleased to share that a book I’ve coedited, *Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships* is now available for preorder everywhere books are sold—including at the OSU Press website, where the promo code S26 will extend a 20% discount and free shipping to you.
Landkeeping
With rising temperatures, longer summers, drought, and more wildfires occurring in the United States and Canada, there is growing interest in the impact and efficacy of Indigenous fire and cultural bu...
osupress.oregonstate.edu
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I’m pleased to share that a book I’ve coedited, *Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships* is now available for preorder everywhere books are sold—including at the OSU Press website, where the promo code S26 will extend a 20% discount and free shipping to you.
Good advice for all generations: “Log off and act.” www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Contributor: Gen Z can't save the planet while doomscrolling it dry
As U.S. data centers drink up more than 200 billion gallons of water per year, young peoplea are no longer willing to wait for someone else to step up.
www.yahoo.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Good advice for all generations: “Log off and act.” www.yahoo.com/news/article...
“Blueberries, much like the red pine, really thrive in the presence of fire. It rejuvenates them.” www.wpr.org/news/prescri...
Prescribed burn in Superior marks return of ‘ishkode,’ or ‘good fire’
Evan Larson, a fire ecologist at UW-Platteville, says the spark has been ignited for a return to cultural prescribed burns. This centuries-old Indigenous practice once helped red pine and blueberries ...
www.wpr.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“Blueberries, much like the red pine, really thrive in the presence of fire. It rejuvenates them.” www.wpr.org/news/prescri...
“The line from forest management to monthly mortgage payments is direct. When we talk about wildfire, we should be talking about air quality, home affordability, and health.” open.substack.com/pub/drlennec...
Environmentalism Is Out of Ideas
Petitions. Lawsuits. Press releases. The movement that once built the EPA is managing its own decline. To make the environment matter again by 2028, we need risk, speed, and imagination.
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
“The line from forest management to monthly mortgage payments is direct. When we talk about wildfire, we should be talking about air quality, home affordability, and health.” open.substack.com/pub/drlennec...
"There's a lot of traditional medicines up on this land, this is where they collect acorns, this is where their medicine grows, their food grows… So for them to… lead the way in stewarding this plan, helps them to meet not only the ecological needs up here, but the cultural needs as well."
Maidu Cal-TREX 2025 to blend fire training with cultural practices in Butte County
The Maidu Cal-TREX 2025, a unique event that took place from Nov. 3-6 in Butte County, combined technical prescribed burning skills with Maidu cultural practice
krcrtv.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"There's a lot of traditional medicines up on this land, this is where they collect acorns, this is where their medicine grows, their food grows… So for them to… lead the way in stewarding this plan, helps them to meet not only the ecological needs up here, but the cultural needs as well."
Burning down to the creek, 2023
November 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Burning down to the creek, 2023
”Keeping Indigenous fire traditions alive isn’t just about caring for the land and preventing out-of-control wildfires…
“Co-ordinating with other communities on the issue is also helping assert Indigenous sovereignty, ‘upholding our jurisdiction, and practicing our rights,’ said Justin Kane…”
“Co-ordinating with other communities on the issue is also helping assert Indigenous sovereignty, ‘upholding our jurisdiction, and practicing our rights,’ said Justin Kane…”
‘We have a way to save communities’: Cultural fire keepers share knowledge across colonial borders
First Nations experts attend first National Indigenous Fire Gathering in syilx homelands, joining counterparts from ‘Canada,’ ‘Australia’ and ‘U.S.’
indiginews.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
”Keeping Indigenous fire traditions alive isn’t just about caring for the land and preventing out-of-control wildfires…
“Co-ordinating with other communities on the issue is also helping assert Indigenous sovereignty, ‘upholding our jurisdiction, and practicing our rights,’ said Justin Kane…”
“Co-ordinating with other communities on the issue is also helping assert Indigenous sovereignty, ‘upholding our jurisdiction, and practicing our rights,’ said Justin Kane…”
I have at least two issues with this article: 1) I don’t see any quotations of Indigenous fire stewards and 2) the oft repeated FRI of 30 to 150 years does not apply to all of Southern California. www.latimes.com/environment/...
The state's wildfire policy long overlooked SoCal. Now it's course correcting
State leaders have long understood Northern California's wildfire crisis and are investing resources to solve it. But in Southern California, the problem is more confounding.
www.latimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I have at least two issues with this article: 1) I don’t see any quotations of Indigenous fire stewards and 2) the oft repeated FRI of 30 to 150 years does not apply to all of Southern California. www.latimes.com/environment/...
Insights into humanities research at the Huntington: forests, plant migration, aquatic cultures, Jane Austen, maps of memory and resistance, writing the future, etc www.huntington.org/news/haven-h...
A Haven for the Humanities | The Huntington
Research Fellows reflect on the archives, art, and gardens that have shaped our world.
www.huntington.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Insights into humanities research at the Huntington: forests, plant migration, aquatic cultures, Jane Austen, maps of memory and resistance, writing the future, etc www.huntington.org/news/haven-h...
Had a great visit to Teakettle. We can bring it back.
October 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Had a great visit to Teakettle. We can bring it back.
The RTRL program funds Tribal work with non-Tribal partners throughout a Tribe’s ancestral homelands.
Great video about the Reserverved Treaty Rights Lands program in Montana. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9grv...
Reserved Treaty Rights Lands Program: The Power of Partnership
YouTube video by The Nature Conservancy
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The RTRL program funds Tribal work with non-Tribal partners throughout a Tribe’s ancestral homelands.
“Despite receiving less than 40 cents for every federal dollar spent on national forests, tribes are restoring forest health and reducing tree mortality. Their success is rooted in thousands of years of stewardship and a willingness to act where federal policy too often stalls.”
Tribes lead the way in forest resilience • Washington State Standard
COMMENTARY | Tribal lands in the Pacific Northwest are earning national recognition for something the U.S. Forest Service has struggled to achieve: healthy, resilient forests.
washingtonstatestandard.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“Despite receiving less than 40 cents for every federal dollar spent on national forests, tribes are restoring forest health and reducing tree mortality. Their success is rooted in thousands of years of stewardship and a willingness to act where federal policy too often stalls.”
How to recover from overfishing in Madagascar: build new reefs, invest in education, create new sources of income and food, like climate-adapted agriculture in a deforested landscape. www.vox.com/climate/4650...
Scientists are testing a surprising approach to fighting hunger in one of the poorest places on Earth
Madagascar is reeling from political unrest. But there’s another problem that no one’s talking about.
www.vox.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
How to recover from overfishing in Madagascar: build new reefs, invest in education, create new sources of income and food, like climate-adapted agriculture in a deforested landscape. www.vox.com/climate/4650...
Following up on Greg Weaver’s Fresnoland article on Teakettle, this podcast mentions “Tribal burn collaboratives,” but there’s another story or two yet to be reported about the Sierra-Sequoia Burn Cooperative’s continuing ties to Teakettle. open.spotify.com/episode/7he5...
@fresnoland.bsky.social
@fresnoland.bsky.social
When the Forest Service Failed the Forest: Inside the Garnet Fire
open.spotify.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Following up on Greg Weaver’s Fresnoland article on Teakettle, this podcast mentions “Tribal burn collaboratives,” but there’s another story or two yet to be reported about the Sierra-Sequoia Burn Cooperative’s continuing ties to Teakettle. open.spotify.com/episode/7he5...
@fresnoland.bsky.social
@fresnoland.bsky.social
An Indigenous Takeover of the Met: “Modeegaadi’s dancers flit across landscapes by Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand, and their peers, calling to the fallen bison—and calling out to the viewer: Did you think these lands were born empty?” www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
An Indigenous Takeover of the Met Asks Who Should Be Writing Art History
"Encoded,” an unsanctioned AR exhibition is hiding within the Met American Wing’s famed artworks and sculptures.
www.artnews.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
An Indigenous Takeover of the Met: “Modeegaadi’s dancers flit across landscapes by Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand, and their peers, calling to the fallen bison—and calling out to the viewer: Did you think these lands were born empty?” www.artnews.com/art-news/new...