Burn to preserve, and other forest practices, from Ecuador to California

1. United States

Indigenous women are learning about controlled burns, based on traditional Native practices and current natural resource management. To close the gender gap in wildfire management, the first Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX) targeting women was held in 2016. The Karuk Tribe hosted a session in the Klamath Mountains last October for 50 Indigenous women from the United States, Canada, and Australia.

Before its land was appropriated in the mid-19th century, the Karuk Tribe inhabited more than