Trails, Fires, and Tribulations: Tribal Resource Management and Research Issues in Northern California


Forest Ranger in Northern California

Publication: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

Author: Frank K. Lake

Date of Publication: March 2013

PDF File: Lake-Trails-Fires-and-Tribulations-Tribal-Resource-M.pdf

URL: http://occasion.stanford.edu/node/121.

Description


Indigenous people’s detailed traditional knowledge about fire, although superficially referenced in various writings, has not for the most part been analyzed in detail or simulated by resource managers, wildlife biologists, and ecologists. . . . Instead, scientists have developed the principles and theories of fire ecology, fire behavior and effects models, and concepts of conservation, wildlife management and ecosystem management largely independent of native examples.