{"id":14679,"date":"2024-09-10T16:53:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T16:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14679"},"modified":"2024-09-10T16:53:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T16:53:41","slug":"were-in-a-deadly-cycle-of-mega-fires-the-way-out-is-to-burn-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14679","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re in a deadly cycle of mega fires. The way out is to burn more."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Across the country, wildfires are getting worse<\/a>. In addition to the billions of dollars in damage from destroyed homes and infrastructure, these fires are increasingly deadly: Every year, wildfire smoke contributes to thousands of deaths<\/a> in the US alone, not to mention other health impacts<\/a> like reduced lung function and increased risk of dementia<\/a>. And climate change makes extreme wildfires all the more likely as landscapes become warmer, drier, and more flammable<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this means that understanding how to control wildfires is more important than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Yamamoto, fire is a way of connecting with his tribal community and land, but he has bigger ambitions, too: He wants to organize major collaborative projects \u2014 between different states, sovereign Indigenous nations \u2014 that would spread fire across arbitrary property lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the barriers to effective fire management is the tangled web of property ownership across the country. Good fire mitigation techniques \u2014 like clearing flammable understory on corporate-owned land \u2014 aren\u2019t as effective if the family land next door doesn\u2019t do the same. To truly confront out-of-control wildfires and climate change, fire management will have to transcend those lines, which means understanding the land we live on as a shared responsibility, rather than a collection of individual properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFire doesn\u2019t recognize property lines, right?\u201d Yamamoto said. \u201cThat\u2019s a very human construction.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/climate\/366765\/megafires-climate-indigenous-controlled-burns<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Across the country, wildfires are getting worse. In addition to the billions of dollars in damage from destroyed homes and infrastructure, these fires are increasingly deadly: Every year, wildfire smoke contributes to thousands of deaths in the US alone, not to mention other health impacts like reduced lung function and increased risk of dementia. And climate change makes extreme wildfires all the more likely as landscapes become warmer, drier, and more flammable.
\nAll of this means that understanding how to control wildfires is more important than ever.<\/p>\n

For Yamamoto, fire is a way of connecting with his tribal community and land, but he has bigger ambitions, too: He wants to organize major collaborative projects \u2014 between different states, sovereign Indigenous nations \u2014 that would spread fire across arbitrary property lines.<\/p>\n

One of the barriers to effective fire management is the tangled web of property ownership across the country. Good fire mitigation techniques \u2014 like clearing flammable understory on corporate-owned land \u2014 aren\u2019t as effective if the family land next door doesn\u2019t do the same. To truly confront out-of-control wildfires and climate change, fire management will have to transcend those lines, which means understanding the land we live on as a shared responsibility, rather than a collection of individual properties.<\/p>\n

\u201cFire doesn\u2019t recognize property lines, right?\u201d Yamamoto said. \u201cThat\u2019s a very human construction.\u201d”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/climate\/366765\/megafires-climate-indigenous-controlled-burns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1827,186,900],"class_list":["post-14679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-fire","tag-fires","tag-native-americans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14680,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14679\/revisions\/14680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}