“Stories as data: Indigenous research sovereignty and the ‘Intentional Fire’ podcast” available

Intentional Fire podcast screenshot. Credit: Karuk Tribe/SWCASC

Alison Meadow, a co-investigator with the NOAA CAP/RISA team Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS) and the Southwest Climate Adaptation Center (SW CASC), helped to mentor SW CASC fellows and contributed to the new publication “Stories as data: Indigenous research sovereignty and the “Intentional Fire” podcast” with the Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources. Indigenous research sovereignty is research implemented by Indigenous people, upholding their tribally specific knowledge. The importance of this sovereignty and ethical collaborations is preceded by natural resource science and management policies of non-locals making decisions for communities without the contexts necessary for effective management. An example of such policies is fire suppression excluding prescribed fires issued by the federal state agency. This suppression results in the accumulation of fuel on the forest floor that can result in more catastrophic events in comparison to Indigenous fire-management that include low-intensity fires to remove such fuel.

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