The Understory Collective, a project run by Stanford students, hosted its first event with members of the Karuk tribe to discuss the use of prescribed burns to protect forests.
Since time immemorial, the Karuk tribe of northern California have managed their ancestral lands, over 400,000 hectares of open oak woodlands, meadows, and forested mountains along the middle section of the Klamath River. They used low-level fires to maintain a healthy landscape for the plants central to their culture. But after settlers arrived in California, […]