Stewardship Series: Fire Ecology
Stewardship Series: Fire Ecology
Friday, October 23rd; 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
For thousands of years, Native people cultivated a relationship between fire and land that created the Yosemite we fell in love with. Cultural burning promoted biodiversity, resilience, and provided food, medicine, and materials for thriving communities.
But when Native people were removed from Yosemite and their fires extinguished, everything changed. Over a century of fire suppression, combined with climate change, has led to overgrown forests, catastrophic wildfires, and the loss of many biological and cultural features that once defined this landscape. During this program, you’ll learn about “Little Fires Everywhere” — a groundbreaking project supported by Yosemite Conservancy that’s returning traditional ecological knowledge and cultural burning to Yosemite Valley.
