Prescribed burns are common tools for land managers, but researchers say Indigenous burning went beyond that, using fire as a land stewardship tool to care for the environment. Tree rings are ...

A study reveals that fire suppression around the Great Lakes has led to the buildup of fuel and the replacement of fire-tolerant trees with fire-intolerant species. Researchers used tree ring data and ...

Michela Mariani receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and is affiliated with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH) and the Centre ...

Anthony Dosseto receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Katharine Haynes, Leanne Brook, and Victor Channell do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon State University researchers have teamed with the Karuk Tribe of Northern California to create a novel computer simulation model that showcases Indigenous fire ...

Long before wildfire season became a national crisis, Indigenous communities were already working with fire as a tool for sustainable land management. For generations, the Karuk, Yurok and Hoopa ...

Explore how Indigenous land rights and conservation partnerships strengthen biodiversity, restore ecosystems, and integrate traditional ecological knowledge into modern stewardship.

For Irukandji knowledge holder Siobhan Singleton, continuing cultural fire management to preserve the forest means practicing living knowledge. Guided by traditional knowledge, Djabugay Bulmba Rangers ...

As wildfires rage across Los Angeles, shrouding neighborhoods in smoke and threatening homes and lives, the urgency of addressing wildfire risks has never been clearer. Wildfires are an escalating ...

For those who can read them, tree rings offer a glimpse into the past. Christopher Roos is one of those people, and he’s using them to shed light on a story that reveals how Western Apache tribes have ...