Indigenous-Led Fire Resiliency Project Could Cut Severe Wildfire Risks In Half

https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/indigenous-fire-resiliency-wildfire-risks-oregon 
The West Bear forest restoration collaboration provides a blueprint for creating climate-resilient cities.

Aforest management and restoration project in wildfire-prone southern Oregon has won national support for its collaborative approach, its “eco-cultural” methods based on Indigenous practices and its significant promise: The West Bear All Lands Forest Restoration Project, or “West Bear” for short, is anticipated to reduce the risk of severe wildfire for communities in the area by up to 50%.

I'm all for this type of thing. It's something we should have been doing for years. The tribes have a long history with fire and know the techniques to keep it to a minimum. We have lost too many lives and too much property in the west to keep going the way we are now.

We need to understand that fire is something natural. I know we are encroaching on the forests more and more each year, but we need to know that this is something we will have to deal with and, if we are going to take that risk, then we need to be ready for fires.