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Type: Webinar
Presenter(s):
  • Christopher I. Roos
    Southern Methodist University
  • Chris Toya
    Pueblo of Jemez
  • John Galvan
    Pueblo of Jemez
Distribution Contact(s):
Host Agency:
  • Southwest Fire Science Consortium
Publication Date: March 4, 2021

As residential development continues into flammable landscapes, wildfires increasingly threaten homes, lives, and livelihoods in the wildland–urban interface (WUI). Although this problem seems distinctly modern, Native American communities have lived in WUI contexts for centuries. When carefully considered, the past offers valuable lessons for coexisting with wildfire, climate change, and related challenges. This webinar will show that ancestors of Native Americans from Jemez Pueblo used ecologically savvy intensive burning and wood collection to make their ancient WUI resistant to climate variability and extreme fire behavior. Learning from the past offers modern WUI communities more options for addressing contemporary fire challenges. Public/private–tribal partnerships for wood and fire management can offer paths forward to restore fire-resilient WUI communities.

Recording Length: 0:59:28
Online Link(s):
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Regions:
Keywords:
  • Ancestral Pueblo
  • cultural burning
  • fire management
  • fire resilience
  • fire severity
  • human dimensions of wildland fire
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Jemez Fire and Humans in Resilient Ecosystems Project
  • New Mexico
  • pyrogeography
  • TEK - traditional ecological knowledge
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FRAMES Record Number: 62909