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Getting back to fire suméŝ: exploring a multi-disciplinary approach to incorporating traditional knowledge into fuels treatments

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Wynecoop, Monique D., Morgan, Penelope, Strand, Eva K., Sanchez Trigueros, Fernando·2019·Fire Ecology

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Background: Evaluating fuel treatment effectiveness is challenging when managing a landscape for diverse ecological, social, and economic values. We used a Participatory Geographic Information System (PGIS) to understand Confederated Colville Tribal (CCT) member views regarding the location and effectiveness of fuel treatments within their ancestral territory within the Colville National Forest (CNF) boundary. The 2015 North Star Fire burned 88 221 ha (218 000 acres) of the CCT ancestral territory. Results: We sampled thirty plot pairs that were treated or untreated prior to being burned by the North Star Fire and again one growing season post fire. Species diversity was significantly increased by wildfire in both treated and untreated plots. Species richness was significantly increased in the plots that were treated, and there was no significant change in species richness from wildfire within the untreated plots. The percent canopy cover of two of the six culturally important plants (Fragaria spp.L. and Arnica cordifolia Hook.) significantly increased one growing season post wildfire within treated plots and one (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi[L.] Spreng.) significantly decreased in the treated plots post wildfire. These post-fire monitoring results were consistent with CCT member management recommendations and desired outcomes of understory thinning, prescribed fire, and natural ignition found using PGIS. Conclusions: Together, the results suggest that prior thinning and prescribed burning can foster vegetation response to subsequent wildfires, including culturally important plants. Further, integrating Traditional Knowledge (TK) into fuels treatments can improve ongoing adaptive management of national forests that include tribal ancestral lands.

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  • The generalization that happens when conflating institutional burning with Indigenous fire stewardship often leads to erasure of Indigenous knowledge and worldview.

    “Furthermore, the generalization that happens when conflating institutional burning with Indigenous fire stewardship often leads to erasure of Indigenous knowledge and worldview (68–71).”

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    The Introduction distinguishes Traditional Knowledge from conventional fuels management, and the Conclusions call for sharing traditional and Western fire knowledge. Neither section says that conflating institutional burning with Indigenous fire stewardship leads to erasure of Indigenous knowledge or worldview. Searches for conflation and erasure found no passage addressing that claim. (LLM, conf=0.70)

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Authors
Wynecoop, M. D., Morgan, P., Strand, E. K., & Sanchez Trigueros, F.
Affiliations
  • US Forest Service (US)
  • University of Idaho (US)
Corresponding author
Wynecoop, Monique D.
Venue
Fire Ecology
Published
2019-06-03
Volume
15
Issue
1
ISSN
1933-9747 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2949035496
Cited by
39
References
47
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 2
FWCI
2.83
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Fire Ecology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona) (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • U.S. Forest Service
  • Rocky Mountain Research Station
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Indigenous Studies and Ecology
Keywords
fuel treatment, traditional knowledge, participatory GIS, Colville National Forest, prescribed burning, adaptive forest management

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