From the daily archives: Monday, November 23, 2020

Indigenous Burning Myths and Realities

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Prescribed burning by Forest Service. Photo by George Wuerthner 

There has been a spate of articles in various newspapers and magazines asserting that if the Forest Service were following burning practices of Indigenous people the large wildfires we have seen around the West would be tamed.

Here are some representative of Indian burning […]

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What does coexistence with large carnivores actually mean?

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Coexistence:  1: to exist together or at the same […]

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey