PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

Below: Wade Crowfoot, California Natural Resources Secretary and Chief of CAL FIRE, Joe Tyler talk about proactive fire preparedness that affected the McKinney Fire behavior (e.g. 4:02), and KTREX is highlighted as a primary "all-hands" demonstration in the state (e.g. 7:15).

White House Indigenous Knowledge Guidance for Federal Agencies

Frank K. Lake (PSW Research Ecologist/Tribal liaison; WKRP Core Team) was asked to review the guidance, and was invited to submit a case study on his work and experiences with Tribes, Tribal entities, and other partners. He focused on WKRP / Karuk Tribe for his case study. [12.2022; pgs 26, 27]

"Indigenous knowledge guides the conservation of culturally important plants"

Features research partnership between the Karuk Tribe/UC Berkeley on how fire suppression and drought impact four plants central to food security and culture. [Mongabay, 12.2022]

"Tribe and partners light up a forest to restore landscape in California"

Features the Somes Integrated Fire Management Project and it's integration of the role of cultural burning. [Mongabay, 11.2022]

Jefferson Public Radio interview with Will Harling, September, 2022

Need for shift in language & culture of the Forest Service that continues to elevate fire exclusion at the expense of proactive prevention measures and lifting up tribal fire practitioners.

WKRP Speaker and Joint Lecture Series' Recordings

June 16

- Agroforestry and Wildlife Programs in the Klamath

June 29 - Transforming Restoration Science and the Cal Poly SAFE Program

December 2 - Joint Lecture Series with the Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources Pikyav Field Institute - Socioecological and Ecocultural discourses

Looking ahead to 2023, we reference the trajectory that 2022 set us upon Partners are aligning around longterm, strategic planning and implementation that benefit and mutually support one another. As briefly mentioned in preceding pages, the Partnership is engaging three 10-year planning processes simultaneously that include engagement of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP), renewal of WKRP's Restoration Plan, and updating the Orleans-Somes Bar Community Wildfire Protection Plan. Partners will work to not only align these three together but tie in other local (e g Karuk Tribe Climate Adaptation Plan, Karuk Tribe Climate Vulnerability Assessment), state (e.g. California Strategic Plan for Expanding the Use of Beneficial Fire), and federal initiatives (e.g. Tribal Forest Protection Act; Bipartisan Infrastructure Law; Inflation Reduction Act) for a systematic, cohesive path forward

Timing is an interesting thing, it was around last May when the group received word of joining CFLRP, however the two other 10-year strategic plan processes had already begun. We couldn’t have planned it better, despite the tall order, these efforts will all work to maximize ecosystem prioritization for a clear path forward on how to deal with the biggest challenges we face including fire behavior and climate change impacts that are exacerbating an already difficult land management paradigm.