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Prescribed burns: Indigenous knowledge

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Seattle Times

Publication Date
2022-05-19

It is difficult to understand that this lengthy environmental article reprinted from The Spokesman-Review about controlled burnings on public land did not once mention it is an age-old practice of Indigenous people of this region and the United States to burn land to promote growth and suppress wildfires.

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https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/prescribed-burns-indigenous-knowledge/