Tag: Fire Management

  • Does the U.S. Have a Fire Problem?

    Does the U.S. Have a Fire Problem?

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    Richard Bednarski

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    Richard Bednarski connects the forest fires of 1910 to the subsequent media-driven age of fire exclusion policy, despite scientific evidence for fire inclusion. Did years of this practice worsen the United States’s “fire problem” today?

  • When Aboriginal Burning Practices Meet Colonial Legacies in Australia

    When Aboriginal Burning Practices Meet Colonial Legacies in Australia

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    Mardi Reardon-Smith

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    Aboriginal burning regimes have become popular as a solution to prevent catastrophic wildfires in Australia. Mardi Reardon-Smith argues that Aboriginal peoples’ fire knowledge is not static, as contemporary burning results from both colonial histories and the intercultural co-creation of environmental knowledges.