In Pursuit of Logic: Part IV of V Native plants and animals have a right to be left alone. Left alone, Nature is beautiful, as it has been for millions of years. Without us. A fair number of people are threatened by that independence.… Continue Reading “Native plants and animals have a right to be left alone.”
Category: Fire, Forests, Habitat Clearance, Indigenous fire use, MisconceptionsTags: Appropriation, Bering land bridge, chaparral, chaparral wisdom, forest fires, Indian burning, Indigenous burning, John Muir, Native American fire use, prescribed fire, Racism, Scott Stephens, tobacco, UC Berkeley, unnatural, wildfire, wildfire science lab, woke science
In Pursuit of Logic: Part III of V There is truth in the world. Contrary to popular belief, truth is not all socially constructed. Determining truth can be a relatively simple, straightforward process when the facts are assembled by conscious beings other than Homo… Continue Reading “When Factual Arguments Fail – Nearly Always”
Category: Fire, Misconceptions, Social ChangeTags: chaparral, chaparral mastication, chaparral type conversion, chaparral wisdom, logical fallacy, Marin County, Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority, Ross Valley, shaded fuel break
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”
Category: Fire, Forests, Habitat Clearance, Indigenous fire use, MisconceptionsTags: chaparral wisdom, controlled burning, cultural burning, Don Hankins, habitat as fuel, Indigenous fire, Sara A Clark, Scott Stephens, UC Berkeley fire research
