Jared Dahl Aldern

Jared Dahl Aldern

@jdaldern.bsky.social

Fire practitioner, historian, co-editor of *Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships* (2026, Oregon State University Press)

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Jared Dahl Aldern
@jdaldern.bsky.social

.@kimhogeland.bsky.social has been working with scholars, tribal leaders, activists and others to develop important community-based Indigenous studies works...a recent example is “Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships.” today.oregonstate.edu/all-stories/...

today.oregonstate.edu10 Questions With... Tom Booth, director of the OSU Press | OSU Today10 Questions with… Tom Booth, director of the Oregon State University Press, who is retiring this month after 35 years with the press
Jared Dahl Aldern
@jdaldern.bsky.social

I’m weary reading of “natural” fire frequencies in forest, chaparral, savannas, grasslands, et al. as if our standard should be how fire behaves in the absence of people. I’m more interested in learning about the sustained historical burning frequencies in these places and much more interested in

Jared Dahl Aldern
@jdaldern.bsky.social

collaborating to work out the burning regimes and other kinds of interactions that will revitalize cultures & languages and sustain healthy, mutually beneficial relationships among people and between people and the land, now and far into the future.

Jared Dahl Aldern
@jdaldern.bsky.social

“How to Avoid Colonial Environmental Language in Your Public Comments,” from @fuseefire.bsky.social fusee.org/fusee/how-to...

fusee.orgHow to Avoid Colonial Environmental Language in Your Public Comments — Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and EcologyThis white paper provides recommendations around Tribal sovereignty and environmental justice that we hope will be useful to organizations and individuals as they comment on the Draft Environmental Im...
Jared Dahl Aldern
@jdaldern.bsky.social

Muwekma Ohlone burning, in collaboration with Ron Goode of the North Fork Mono Tribe and others blogs.sjsu.edu/anthropology...

blogs.sjsu.eduHorše Hiyyiš (Good Fire) Connection to Place Through the Reawakening of Cultural Burning By M.A. Candidate Tiffany Williams | Anthropology Department Blog | SJSUProject investigator: Tiffany Williams Project funding: Columbia Vecchi Fellowship Project sponsors: Charlotte Sunseri, Jan English-Lueck, and Erika Carrillo During my time in graduate school, I have ...

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Eli Meyerhoff
@elimeyerhoff.bsky.social

I learned so much from interviewing Glen Coulthard about the potentials (and challenges!) for decolonization through Indigenous land-based education. Check out our interview on @anothereducation.bsky.social:

Another Education Is Possible@anothereducation.bsky.social

In our new episode, we speak with @gscoulthard.bsky.social about indigenous land-based education at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning. Our conversation builds on our previous discussion with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson ( @biidaasamose.bsky.social). Listen at: linktr.ee/anotheredisp...

Jared Dahl Aldern
@jdaldern.bsky.social

The upshot here is: Shrubs grow rapidly post-fire, shading out sugar pine seedlings and favoring shade-tolerant white fir, thus perpetuating the forest composition created by fire suppression. Yo, FYI, the way to "control" those shrubs is to restore Indigenous cultural interactions with them.

link.springer.comCompositional legacies of fire suppression maintained after fire re-entry - Fire EcologyBackground Legacies of fire suppression include changes in forest composition and structure that tend to increase fire severity in historically frequent-fire forests. Despite the expectation that fire...

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Intertribal Timber Council
@intertribal-tc.bsky.social

Penobscot Nation thinned part of a Maine forest to boost food and cover for wintering deer — and wildlife cameras confirmed it worked. Deer clearly preferred the treated area. 🦌 Supported by NRCS through EQIP. Link in bio

Jared Dahl Aldern
@jdaldern.bsky.social

Burning to turn the land black vs. burning for bears, berries, fish, and people: Right now, we need both approaches – – fuel reduction (prescribed fire), and Indigenous cultural burning. www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/10/14/t...

canadianaffairs.newsThe trees remember: Making Indigenous fire a part of wildfire preventionCanada used to ban Indigenous peoples from managing Canada’s forests. Now, governments are making room for their practices to return.
Jared Dahl Aldern
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“After colonisation, everything in the sediment core changes. Hot fire becomes dominant, shrubs thicken, eucalypt cover surges to nearly four times pre-colonial levels, and open woodland becomes today’s flammable forest… A wilderness that colonisation built.” theconversation.com/colonisation...

theconversation.comColonisation, not climate change, first primed these forests to burnFor more than 800 years, frequent cultural burning kept this land as stable, open woodland.
Jared Dahl Aldern
@jdaldern.bsky.social

Cultural fire for kids (and adults): countering that scary forest fire scene in Bambi with “Beautiful, slow, creeping fires. Fires you could walk around.” northshorejournal.co/lifestyle/is...

northshorejournal.coIshkode: A Story of Fire Highlights Cultural Burning Revival | North Shore Journal | Two Harbors, Silver Bay & Lake SuperiorI lived close enough to the Brimson Fire to spend a thousand dollars on hoses and hope they’d be enough if the wind turned our way. That summer changed how ...
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“Throughout the Northern Colorado Fireshed Collaborative's first cultural burning workshop, participants repeatedly returned to the same idea: listening before leading.” boulderweekly.com/boulder/maki...

boulderweekly.comMaking room for fire - Boulder WeeklyBy Emily BernardBoulder Weekly James Calabaza carried an empty chair into the circle and set it among the participants. Not for a guest. Not for a late arrival. The seat was reserved for fire itself. ...
Jared Dahl Aldern
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“The gathering began with safety instructions… Participants were reminded to remain aware of tools, wildlife, and potential hazards, report any archaeological or cultural items they encountered, and stay hydrated while working at an elevation exceeding 7,000 feet. “Then the ceremony began.”

recorderonline.comKeeping the fires burning: Tribes carry on cultural traditions at Alder CreekALDER CREEK GROVE — The sound of tribal songs echoed through the towering giant sequoias Sunday morning as North Fork Mono Tribal Chairman Ronald Goode led a gathering in song,
Jared Dahl Aldern
@jdaldern.bsky.social

I would love to attend this event, but the weather is going to be a little too warm this weekend for me to be hanging around in Courthouse Park. Maybe someone needs to tell the event planners about Fresno’s early-October climate history. gathering.actaonline.org

gathering.actaonline.orgGreat Valley Gathering – A celebration of Central Valley cultures in Downtown FresnoGreat Valley Gathering is a free, 3-day public event celebrating the living traditions, music, dance, storytelling, craft, and foodways that shape…
Jared Dahl Aldern
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2000 years of managing water and controlling fire: "The Talang Tuwo inscription is a historical record dated to the year 684 C.E. and written in Old Malay. The inscription documents the creation of a green park and the treatment of ponds and dams under king Sri Jayanasa."

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"If a fire breaks out here, we’re finished." As El Niño drives Indonesia's worst wildfires in years, rubber growers in South Sumatra rely on traditional fire prevention. For local farmers, preventing fire is now a matter of survival. Learn more in this story by Taufik Wijaya for #Mongabay.

mongabay.ccAs fires spread, Indonesia’s rubber growers draw on traditional ways to fight backPENUKAL ABAB LEMATANG ILIR, Indonesia — Sumanti raced her motorcycle past the rubber trees as flames spread through the dry brush. No one had picked up the phone as the wildfire continued to grow out…

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Intertribal Timber Council
@intertribal-tc.bsky.social

What would the next 50 years look like for Tribal forestry? 🌲 More funding. More agency over the land. More resources to steward it. What do you want to see happen in 50 years? Tell us below 👇 #ITC50 #TribalForestry

Jared Dahl Aldern
@jdaldern.bsky.social

Yes, and the way to do this is to live on the land, work it daily, & make friends with all the other residents — wild animals, invasive plants, everyone: “we have to get rid of all that extra fuel, and once a semblance of balance is restored, make friends with natural, lower-severity ground fires…”

grist.orgAmerica is losing its war against wildfireWildland firefighting is increasingly facing an intractable reality: We’re stuck in a vicious cycle. A doom loop.