KLAMATH TREX & KARUK WOMEN'S TREX

2022 was an exceptional year for the TREX program in the Western Klamath Region. The first of its kind, Indigenous women-led TREX was hosted by Karuk women leaders with some assistance from KTREX organizers Between the two events, there were over 180 participants from nine countries, 12 states, and 95 local, tribal, state, federal, private, and academic organizations, all with diverse backgrounds in fire and other related disciplines. KTREX has always been and will continue to be a key program of WKRP's as it brings all partners together and works towards collective strategies such as: increasing the use of fire through the pre-colonial lens; increasing local restoration capacity; accelerating development of fire-adapted communities; and engagement of intergenerational education and learning. However, KTREX is just one avenue we are employing these strategies. More examples are demonstrated in the following pages.

"It's a training program that is paving the way for something bigger, something that will allow us to help get our forests healthy again"

"A lot of knowledgeable people from all parts of the world"

"This is the center of the good fire movement"

"People with so much passion for what they do"

"It was nice to learn from such a diverse group of knowledgeable people It's beautiful"

"It was the most helpful training of my career"

"Klamath TREX is an incredibly unique opportunity to learn about cultural burning, to burn in diverse habitats in a challenging environment, and to network with local, tribal, state, federal and international fire-Lighters"

"[Most valued] learning from people more experienced in all specific aspects of fire than I am having a setting where questions and learning are expected rather than looked down upon"

"Pioneering collaboration to rebuild our relationship with natural fire process and respecting indigenous cultural practices"

"They have created a grassroots movement around prescribed fire with an indigenous focus"

"It is so powerful to see people from so many backgrounds come together to work in fire"

"It's a critical event for increasing pace & scale, working toward tribal food sovereignty, land stewardship and prescribed burning workforce development in the western U.S. and beyond. It should be funded lavishly, forever"