Wildland Fire Management as Conservation-Based Development: An Opportunity for Reservation Communities?

Rasmussen, Kathleen Frances; Hibbard, Michael; Lynn, Kathy

doi:10.1080/08941920701337952

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“…Through this halfcentury documentation of indigenous people's knowledge of, and practices employing, fire, more resource managers are willing to include these findings in their fire management strategies. Recent examinations of historic and desired relationships with fire as expressed by indigenous communities in the western United States indicate that an important shift may be occurring (Rasmussen et al 2007;Carroll et al 2010). These developments underscore the desire of indigenous communities to be part of the decisionmaking processes related to fire management within their territories.…”

Section: Indigenous Fire Managementmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Our research contributes to a growing literature addressing the engagement of indigenous communities in forest fire management in the western United States (Rasmussen et al 2007;Carroll et al 2010). Our approach draws upon recent literature regarding planning forums and place-based learning communities (Healey 1997;DavidsonHunt and O'Flaherty 2007), a research approach focusing on .…”

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Talking about fire: Pikangikum First Nation elders guiding fire management

2010

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In this paper, we present how elders of Pikangikum First Nation in northwestern Ontario have drawn upon their knowledge and values associated with fire to engage in fire management planning for 1.3 million hectares of their traditional boreal forest territory. Over a period of 18 months, we engaged in collaborative research strategies that included interviews, visits to historic fire sites, and community meetings with Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) to document the elders' understandings of fire behaviour, forest disturbance and renewal cycles, traditional controlled burning practices, and perspectives on current fire management policies. The elders demonstrated the relevance of their knowledge of fire to contemporary planning efforts affecting woodland caribou habitat and fire management at site and landscape scales within their territory. We identified three themes and six recommendations that elders confirmed as priorities for future fire management planning. The three themes include (i) the need for continuing dialogue for fire management planning with OMNR, (ii) extending traditional teachings of fire safety to community youth, and (iii) the desire to re-engage in fire management using traditional processes.Résumé : Cet article porte sur la façon dont les aînés de la Première Nation de Pikangikum, au nord-ouest de l'Ontario, ont fait appel à leurs connaissances et à leurs valeurs concernant les feux de forêt pour s'impliquer dans la planification de la gestion du feu sur leur territoire traditionnel de 1,3 millions d'hectares en milieu boréal. Au cours d'une période de 18 mois, nous avons adopté des stratégies de recherche concertées comprenant des entrevues, la visite de sites d'incendies passées et des rencontres communautaires avec le ministère des Ressources naturelles de l'Ontario (MRNO), pour documenter la compréhension des aînés au sujet du comportement du feu, de la perturbation de la forêt et des cycles de renouvellement, des pratiques traditionnelles de brûlage dirigé et des politiques actuelles de gestion des feux de forêt. Les aînés ont démontré la pertinence de leur connaissance du feu en lien avec les travaux contemporains de planification de l'habitat du caribou des bois et de la gestion des feux de forêt, à l'échelle locale ainsi qu'à l'échelle du paysage, sur l'ensemble de leur territoire. Nous avons identifié trois thèmes et six recommandations que les aînés ont jugés prioritaires pour la planification future de la gestion des feux de forêt. Les trois thèmes sont (i) la nécessité de poursuivre le dialogue avec le MRNO au sujet de la planification de la gestion des feux de forêt, (ii) la transmission des enseignements traditionnels concernant la protection contre les feux de forêt aux jeunes de la communauté et (iii) le désir de s'impliquer de nouveau dans la gestion des feux de forêt en utilisant les méthodes traditionnelles.

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Talking about fire: Pikangikum First Nation elders guiding fire management

2010

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“…Developing projects Tribes face several obstacles that limit their capacity to engage in fire management work, however (Rasmussen et al 2007). These obstacles include the seasonality of the work, obtaining the necessary training required for employees and contractors, the cost of investing in the equipment necessary for undertaking the work, a lack of financial capital with which to start businesses, and supportive tribal leadership to help form partnerships with public agencies (Rasmussen et al 2007). Differences in communication and operating styles, and Forest Service bureaucratic processes-such as contracting and reporting requirements, timelines, and business plans-can also create barriers ).…”

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“…A survey of 31 of the 42 federally recognized tribes in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho found that tribes had a strong interest in taking advantage of jobs in fire management, including working on wildland fire suppression crews and undertaking hazardous fuels reduction work (Rasmussen et al 2007). Developing projects Tribes face several obstacles that limit their capacity to engage in fire management work, however (Rasmussen et al 2007).…”

Section: Tribal Forest Protection Act-mentioning

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Science synthesis to support socioecological resilience in the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascade Range

Long¹,

Quinn‐Davidson²,

Skinner³

2014

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“…But this has changed since at least the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975, which transferred management authority from governmental agencies such as the Bureau of Indian Affairs to tribes (Middleton and Kusel 2007), forming the "era of self-determination" (Rasmussen et al 2007). Self-determination has been linked with land reacquisition, in part a response to tribal sovereignty struggles focused on "how to maintain or regain control over resources, especially land" (Hibbard, 2006: 88).…”

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The Mazama returns: the politics and possibilities of tribal land reacquisition

Kelly

Bliss

Gosnell

2013

Journal of Political Ecology

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After years of policies that undermined tribal sovereignty and land ownership, tribal access to traditional lands has expanded in the U.S., with growing opportunities for tribal land reacquisition. This is occurring within the context of changing rural land use, policies, and tenures, as timber and ranch land owners have divested ownership, resulting in greater land availability. This case study explores, through a political ecology lens, trends connecting rising tribal capacity and power with access to traditional lands, and the connections between politics, economics, race, power, and ecological change. This case provides lessons for indigenous land re-acquisition elsewhere, as indigenous groups globally gain access to political decisionmaking processes and seek to reacquire or rehabilitate their traditional homelands. We explore these trends through the case of the Klamath Tribes in south central Oregon, where the recent breakup of formerly industrial timberland has afforded the Tribes the opportunity to purchase the Mazama Tree Farm, a 36,000 ha part of the former Klamath Reservation. Though the Mazama has not (at the time of publication) been purchased by the Klamath Tribes, they have poised themselves to do so through a series of mechanisms that are driven by increasing tribal capacity, including the capacity to manage forests and to conduct successful negotiations over land and water use.Key words: Tribal capacity, forest restoration, American West, rural restructuring, industrial forest use

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Wildland Fire Management as Conservation-Based Development: An Opportunity for Reservation Communities?

Cited by 19 publications

References 13 publications

Talking about fire: Pikangikum First Nation elders guiding fire management

Talking about fire: Pikangikum First Nation elders guiding fire management

Science synthesis to support socioecological resilience in the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascade Range

The Mazama returns: the politics and possibilities of tribal land reacquisition

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