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Lee Klinger PhD @suddenoaklife.bsky.social · 2d

Yup! More than once. Even papers that claimed to have tested my methods, without contacting me or even actually testing my methods. This is why I'm an Independent Scientist. While still an academic, I'm free of the BS. I'm just applying my science and documenting the results.

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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 29d

“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

medium.com

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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 23d

“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...

www.borealconservation.org

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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · Aug 2

This is good
@britafollariviere.bsky.social

Agency, Resistance, Persistence

This month, the California History-Social Science Project invited Brianna Tafolla Rivière to write a guest post about bringing indigenous history into your classroom. Brianna is a historian and PhD ca...

chssp.ucdavis.edu

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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...

www.siskiyou.news

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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · Jul 26

“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...

e360.yale.edu

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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · Jul 26

Great story-map here. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a58f...

Johnson Ranch Open Space Cultural Burn

yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini (ytt) Northern Chumash Tribe brings back tinɨtʸu, "Good Fire" to ancestral homelands in a collaborative effort

storymaps.arcgis.com

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · Jul 24

The Signing Oak - Windsor Great Park, Berkshire

Photo: Jeroen Philippona

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Lee Klinger PhD @suddenoaklife.bsky.social · Jul 24

Beautiful! Why is the base of the trunk white? Has limewash been applied?

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · Jul 23

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

www.newscientist.com

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Lee Klinger PhD @suddenoaklife.bsky.social · Jul 23

Tending Oaks with Fire Mimicry Workshop

The Santa Monica Mountains Fire Safe Council invites you to join us for an educational workshop on wildfire ecology and management featuring Dr. Lee Klinger, author of Forged by Fire, with represen…

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Lee Klinger PhD @suddenoaklife.bsky.social · Jul 23

Save the date! #OakHealth #FireMimicry #TEK 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🪶🌱🦅🌰 www.smmfsc.org/oakworkshop

Oak Workshop | My Site

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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · Jul 19

“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.

www.independent.com

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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · Jul 15

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 · Jul 5

“we burn to teach, to feed and to heal.” www.fao.org/indigenous-p...

Understanding Fire as a Necessary Tool

For thousands of years Indigenous Peoples have used fire to sustainably manage their lands, territories and natural resources. As ecological stewards, I...

www.fao.org

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · Jul 11

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/...

Scanning electron microscopy photograph of the pyrogenic carbon.
CREDIT: Debo Zhao

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Yurok Tribe @yuroktribe.bsky.social · Jul 10

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.

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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.”

Cultural burning: Wildfires in the Arctic – Wildfire Today

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · Jul 5

“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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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · Jul 6

“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.”
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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.

educatedbynature.com

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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · Jul 5

“we burn to teach, to feed and to heal.” www.fao.org/indigenous-p...

Understanding Fire as a Necessary Tool

For thousands of years Indigenous Peoples have used fire to sustainably manage their lands, territories and natural resources. As ecological stewards, I...

www.fao.org

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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · Jul 4

“Cultural burning, a tribal land management practice, was the central focus of the event, with sessions highlighting its use in reducing forest fuels, promoting healthy ecosystems and supporting traditional Indigenous practices like hunting and gathering.”
krcrtv.com/news/local/y...

Yurok Fire Department shows benefits of controlled burns at Blue Lake Rancheria event

The Yurok Fire Department recently led a cultural burn demonstration near the Blue Lake Rancheria’s events center during the third annual Cultural Burn Seminar.

krcrtv.com

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Lee Klinger PhD @suddenoaklife.bsky.social · Jul 4

Damn, I'm gonna miss this lively character!

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Jun 23

(🚨) The first-ever pop song about uranium enrichment has just been released on all streaming platforms and for purchase.

It’s “E” for explicit, too! Hope you’ll you share it if you like it.

(Warning: it’s an earworm.)

Third Time's the Charm - Single by Hounds on Apple Music

Album · 2025 · 1 Song

music.apple.com

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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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