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Fire Ecology (WILDFIRES & INDIGENOUS FIRE MANAGEMENT) Mega Encore with Gavin Jones & Amy Christianson

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.923.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

Once again: the world is on fire. As wildfires burn across Canada and their smoke pours down the continent, we thought it would be a good time to encore these Fire Ecology episodes. First, Dr. Gavin Jones brings the heat talking about what fire is, how hot it burns, fire trends, tinderboxes, lots and lots of forest fire flim-flam, tolerant wombats, Angelina Jolie movies, cunning pine cones, thick bark, Indigenous fire stewardship and more. Then join co-host of the podcast Good Fire, Dr. Amy Christianson, to learn about how cultural burns and prescribed blazes can create healthy forests. She also discusses Indigenous history, collaborations between Western science & First Nations elders, Aboriginal thoughts on cultural burns, more 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, hey, so it's your partner who insisted on buying respirators during COVID, who is

0:04.4

including it all.

0:05.4

They're just glad that we have them when we need them.

0:07.6

Ali Ward here with a rather smoky encore.

0:11.2

It's a mega episode because the time has never been right or to explain what is happening

0:16.4

over North America.

0:18.0

Is it the apocalypse?

0:19.8

Maybe.

0:20.8

Stay tuned.

0:21.8

So we have a really good episode about scallops in the pike coming for you that we have been

0:25.3

working so hard.

0:26.3

You're going to have to wait a couple more days for it.

0:28.9

With the current situation, we thought we'd bring back these super hot fire ecology episodes

0:33.9

to your attention.

0:34.9

If you're like, what's going on over there?

0:36.6

Let me tell you a quick rundown.

0:38.4

What is happening currently on the continent of North America?

0:40.9

So the Canadian emergency preparedness minister Bill Blair said as of Wednesday this week,

0:46.6

414 wildfires were burning in Canada with 239 of them out of control.

0:54.2

Because of today, Wednesday, June 7, Toronto has the third worst air quality in the world,

1:00.1

and New York City has the second worst dealing with the same smoke from all these Canadian

1:04.5

fires.

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