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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 5d

Wildfire, prescribed fire, AND cultural burning at the same time, in the same place. This is what right looks like in Karuk Territory! vimeo.com/1120338306?f...

Three Burns - The 2025 Butler Wildfire

In order to protect homes during the this summer’s Butler Fire on the Salmon River in Siskiyou County, local organizations with All Hands All Lands program…

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Aug 3

Great article by @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social of @boisestatepublicradio.org! www.boisestatepublicradio.org! www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/...

With reforms in place, California’s Karuk Tribe works to reestablish cultural burning as 'common practice'

For millennia, Indigenous peoples have intentionally set fires to care for the land. Colonization and fire exclusion largely put an end to those practices, though the tradition endured. Now, Californi...

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Jul 31

www.siskiyou.news/2025/07/10/k...

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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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Jul 13

Good read, you can’t just take thousands of years of cultural practice from a place without impacts. We must bring fire back to the people. We must perpetuate the practices that currently declining species have come to depend. We must revitalize our indigenous knowledge, practice, and belief systems

Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · Jul 13

Coming back to the inspirations in this article, including the idea of a Wildland *Cultural* Interface: “We need to reframe cultural resources and values at risk into a matrix of action; we need to understand the cultural structures that need protection…and they need to be fully accounted for.”

Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · Jul 9

“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.”

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Jul 11

I just gotta say, way to pull our collective works into a great and timely news story… We hope to tie in with Quartz Valley this coming late winter to help spur positive fire outcomes with our neighbors to the northeast as well… 🙂

www.siskiyou.news/2025/07/10/k...

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...

www.siskiyou.news

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Jul 9

As federal, tribal, state and local firefighters respond to the 2025 Butler fire, the All Hands All Lands burn team implemented a prescribed fire on private property near Butler Creek. A cultural burn was conducted near Tribal homes. This is how things should be done.

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Jul 2

There is a long overdue conversation happening on Facebook in regard to these Northern California wilderness fires. If we are serious about changing the paradigm, let’s start now!

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Jun 21

Karuk Tribal Youth Forestry Camp participants, led by Cultural Fire Practitioners under an SB 310 agreement, pulled off an unplanned cultural burn without incident this week. So much easier when experienced people can go to where conditions are right to make good things like this happen! :-)

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Jun 11

See today’s testimony I delivered on the Tribal Self Determination and Comanagement in Forestry Act at this link. My portion starts at the 1:33:16 mark. There is much more included in the written testimony. But a 5 minute summary is a five minute summary. naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eve...

Hearings | House Committee on Natural Resources

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · May 17

I am receiving an honorary doctorate today during the commencement ceremony beginning at 12:00 pm. click here to view live commencement.humboldt.edu/live

Live streaming - Class of 2025, Spring Commencement | CommencementCal Poly HumboldtCal Poly Humboldt

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · May 9

Getting back to our roots… medium.com/@intertribal...

Good Fire and Strong Sovereignty: Cultural Burning as a Path to Indigenous-Led Forest Stewardship

By Bill Tripp

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · May 7

I love working with these people. Looking forward to the next 10 years. fireadaptednetwork.org/10-years-of-...

Igniting Change Over 10 Years of the Indigenous Peoples Burning Network - Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network

By Fire Networks Staff

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · May 3

Healing Water: magazine.rotary.org/rotary/may_2...

Healing Water

In that dismal December of 2015, it was hard to say who was more bereft...

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Apr 20

Priorities… :-) youtu.be/AskCYsXWKpA?...

Controlled Burns Prevent Wildfire | Firelighters: Fire is Medicine | Full Film | Local, USA

YouTube video by WORLD

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Apr 19

More news on cultural burning if there are still folks out there needing to hear the message! ictnews.org/news/cultura...

Cultural burning: ‘Fire teaches us many lessons’

Haruk Tribe signs historic agreement with California to remove barriers to use of ‘good fire’ in land stewardship

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Apr 17

A message from Jim Durglo, a long time indigenous forest and fire management advocate. medium.com/@intertribal...

CULTURAL BURNING HAS LESSONS FOR TODAY’S SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT

By Jim Durglo

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Apr 17

An important message from a fellow thought leader in fire and one of the most passionate speakers I know. the-lookout.org/2025/04/05/w...

Will Harling Speaks on Burning at the Landscape Scale - The Lookout

If you’ve followed our work, you’ve probably heard about my friend and colleague, Will Harling, who is a leader in bringing community-based prescribed fire back to the Klamath River after a century of...

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Apr 15

It truly is a great honor to be recognized in this way… a special thanks to each and every one of you that have touched the very foundations of this in so many ways… you know who you are!Yootva to you all from the very center of my being. kymkemp.com/2025/04/15/c...

Cal Poly Humboldt Awards Honorary Doctorate of Humane Sciences to Karuk Cultural Fire Visionary

“Tripp exemplifies Cal Poly Humboldt’s 21st-century polytechnic identity by centering Indigenous Knowledge in applied sciences to address real-world problems and enhance people’s lives locally…

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Mar 28

Looking for someone that can lead the Indigenous Stewardship Network and help progress a new era if indigenous stewardship throughout California. jobs.gusto.com/postings/ind...

Network Director (Remote - California Based) at Indigenous Stewardship Network

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Mar 25

How the Klamath Dams Came Down! grist.org/project/indi...

How the Klamath Dams Came Down

Last year, tribes in Oregon and California pulled off the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story.

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BC Wildfire Weekly - Wildfires + More @bcwildfirewkly.bsky.social · Mar 11

“Karuk Tribe right to cultural burning affirmed in agreement with California” www.cbc.ca/news/indigen... - CBC News

#CAFire #CulturalBurning #Indigenous

Karuk Tribe right to cultural burning affirmed in agreement with California | CBC News

A first of it's kind agreement between a tribe in northern California could prevent the build-up of wildfire fuel, First Nations firekeepers in Canada say.

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Mar 5

Hope other States and Tribes also choose this path as we embark on this new era of shared stewardship! kmud.org/karuk-tribe-...

Karuk Tribe and California Natural Resources Agency Finalize Historic Agreement to Advance Tribal Sovereignty and Cultural Fire Practices - KMUD | Redwood Community Radio

California is making a historic move to honor tribal sovereignty, passing a new cultural burning law and establishing the first-ever cultural burning agreement with the Karuk Tribe, which has lived on...

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Feb 28

“Karuk has been a national thought leader on cultural fire,” said Geneva E.B. Thompson... [CNRA] …“So, it makes sense that they would be a natural first partner in this space because they have a really clear mission and core commitment to get this work done.” www.latimes.com/environment/...

California tribe enters first-of-its-kind agreement with the state to practice cultural burns

After suppression of Indigenous cultural burning, the state agrees Northern California's Karuk Tribe may practice the burns more freely than it has in over 175 years.

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Feb 12

Well a lot of tribal programs are conducting what I would refer too as prescribed fire with cultural objectives due to the oppressive systems of the fire exclusion paradigm. It has largely been individual indigenous people that have carried on what I would consider true cultural burning.

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Feb 11

Yes there are many.

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