Hands on the land, heart in community: Returning cultural fires
By Deniss Martinez, Environmental Health News
We know the best way to counteract the destruction of land is to love the land. Love it radically and fiercely. After all, we are the land.
Tag: cultural burning
Our land was taken. But we still hold the knowledge of how to stop mega-fires
By Bill Tripp, The Guardian blog
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.
What is Burning in Australia: Excerpt
By Iva Korbar, Resilience.org
Cultural burning is far more than a new method in the spectrum of hazard reduction burning; it is a recognized official Australian wildfire prevention technique. Cultural burning sets focus on re-establishing the kinship between the species in a certain ecosystem; it pays full attention to fire relationships of the area.
