Indigenous Fire Ecology (GOOD FIRE) with Amy Christianson

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

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. Follow Dr. Amy Christianson at: https://twitter.com/christiansonamy Listen to the “Good Fire” podcast https://yourforestpodcast.com/good-fire-podcast Also great: YourForestPodcast.com A donation was made to Indigenous Residential School Survivors https://www.irsss.ca/ More links at alieward.com/ologies/goodfire Sponsors of Ologies: alieward.com/ologies-sponsors Transcripts & bleeped episodes at: alieward.com/ologies-extras Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes and now… MASKS. Hi. Yes. Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies Follow twitter.com/AlieWard or instagram.com/AlieWard Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris Transcripts by Emily White of www.thewordary.com/ Website by https://www.kellyrdwyer.com/ Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's that incense that reminds you of freshman year so much that you can only
0:03.8	smell it sometimes because you don't want the nostalgia to fade.
0:07.3	Alay word.
0:08.4	Back with the follow up as promised episode of allergies that serves as a companion piece
0:13.5	to last week's fire ecology episode.
0:16.0	So perhaps listen to that one first, come here for more context or don't, not ultimately
0:20.9	none of my beeswax.
0:22.2	Okay, so just a little behind the scenes on this one's format.
0:26.4	Format is a little different than what you're used to.
0:28.2	I spoke with thisologist while she was up in the wilderness of Canada on vacation and
0:33.0	the internet was spotty.
0:34.2	So the first 10 minutes or so, it's not the finest quality audio we've ever had on
0:38.0	allergies, but we did our best.
0:39.7	And then she sent some stand alone recordings answering more questions.
0:44.3	And then after the break, we're featuring excerpts from her own indigenous fire ecology
0:49.2	podcast, good fire with Matt Christoff, making this a real community effort and a fire
0:54.0	mosaic episode indeed. So thisologist got her masters and PhD in hazard management and
1:00.0	fire science and works as a fire social scientist for the Canadian Forest Service.
1:05.4	She is a matey woman from Treaty 6 territory on land now known as Canada and has authored
1:10.9	paper such as social science research on indigenous wildfire management in the 21st
1:15.8	century and future research needs.
1:18.0	So she is well schooled on this.
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