Posted on September 8, 2022
by CA Chaparral Institute
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In Pursuit of Logic: Part V of V “Although most Americans know they are supposed to say ‘We learn from our mistakes,’ deep down they don’t believe it for a minute.”– Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson The key issue we have been struggling with… Continue Reading “Science Provides, Wisdom Will Lead”
Category: Climate Change, Fire, Habitat Clearance, MisconceptionsTags: America the Beautiful, California Indians, crying Indian, Cultural appropriation, Don Hankins, Frank Waters, Indigenous burning, Indigenous fire, Iron Eyes Cody, Masked Gods, Native American fire use, prescribed fire, Sara A Clark, Scott Stephens
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, 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 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, MisconceptionsTags: chaparral wisdom, controlled burning, cultural burning, Don Hankins, habitat as fuel, Indigenous fire, Sara A Clark, Scott Stephens, UC Berkeley fire research