Host Dave Schlom welcomes back California State University at Chico Pyrogeographer Don Hankins. They talk about Don's background as a member of the plains Miwok people and how indigenous people worldwide are trying to reassert using fire as a healing tool for landscapes that are meant to burn and have for millennia.
They discuss the role of prescribed and cultural burning as a tool to try and put balance back into ecosystems that have been thrown completely out of whack by European influences, including poor forest management and nearly two centuries of fire suppression.
