Bill Tripp

Bill Tripp is the director of natural resources and environmental policy for the Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources.

Klamath River in California

Our land was taken. But we still hold the knowledge of how to stop mega-fires

As wildfires rage across California, it saddens me that Indigenous peoples’ millennia-long practice of cultural burning has been ignored in favor of fire suppression.

September 24, 2020