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Returning Fire to the Land

By: Amos S. Eno
Posted on:05/11/2022

Jim Durglo of Salish-Kootenai tribe was a lead off speaker at EarthX’s Forestry conference on 22 April in Dallas. 99% of Americans do not realize that all our forests were burned regularly by native Amerindians for millennia from New Jersey west to California. Amerindians were our continents’ first forest managers and a number of tribes today are among our nation’s best forest managers. Watch this video from Salish Kootenai Forestry department, It will open your eyes to the need for forest management to be returned vigorously to western states and New Jersey’s Pine Barrens.