Native Tribes Are Taking Fire Control Into Their Own Hands | WIRED
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[...] a [...] 1911 federal legislation [...] made it illegal to ignite fires on public forest lands. That legislation curtailed centuries of forest management by the native Karuk, Yurok, and Hupa people, who had long lived in villages dotted throughout these forests; a 1918 US Forest Service ranger’s memo declared that “renegade Indian” fires were rooted in “pure cussedness.”
A hundred years later, though, western science and policy-makers are rethinking the subject. [...] So in a new policy, the Forest Service on July 27 signed an implementation plan for managing public forest lands—an agreement in which both fire and the Karuk play a vital role.