Indigenous Fire Ecology (GOOD FIRE) with Dr. Amy Christianson
The study of GOOD FIRE
Episode Info
- Guest: Dr. Amy Christianson
- Date: Aug 17
- Topics: Culture, Earth
- Listen: Original Episode
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About This Episode
Cultural burns. Prescribed blazes. A healthy forest. What exactly is “good fire?” Let’s ask Indigenous fire scientist Dr. Amy Christianson, who is a co-host of the podcast …Good Fire. This wonderfully generous and informed scholar took a quick break from her Canadian wilderness vacation to fill me in on Indigenous history, collaborations between Western science & First Nations elders, Aboriginal thoughts on cultural burns, flim-flam, evacuations, snowmelt, hunting strategies, land stewardship, happy trees, climate strategies, and the social science behind wildfire education. Also learning from Native wildfire fighters. Huge thanks to her and Matt Kristoff — who also hosts the Your Forest Podcast — for allowing us to use excerpts from their interview to launch Good Fire. Subscribe to both podcasts to get more ecological knowledge in your ears.
For a wildfire primer, head to last week’s Fire Ecology episode with Dr. Gavin Jones