Chaparral Wisdom
To celebrate the magic and beauty of Nature & the chaparral
Category: Fire
We’re getting ‘Indigenous’ controlled burning all wrong
In Pursuit of Logic: Part I of V The call by non-Indigenous people to incorporate a romanticized, stereotyped version of Native American fire use is a thinly veiled attempt to appropriate Native culture for the same reason colonial powers have done so in the… Continue Reading “We’re getting ‘Indigenous’ controlled burning all wrong”
How Truth Metastasized Into A Lie – The Fire Suppression Fallacy (Part I)
– The Justification Du Jour to Eliminate Nature – We are being lied to. It didn’t start out that way, but as is often the case when money and power are involved, the truth has suffered. And the lie has been crafted to be… Continue Reading “How Truth Metastasized Into A Lie – The Fire Suppression Fallacy (Part I)”
Nature Suppression
Our forests are not suffering primarily from fire suppression, the story one constantly hears, but rather too much human meddling, be it logging, thinning, fire, habitat clearance, the works. The map below tells the story. The actual data shown presents a picture in such… Continue Reading “Nature Suppression”