Indigenous Fire Stewardship Papers

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E.R. Larson, N.M. Montano, E. Lockling, A. Ojibway, M.B. Reynolds, V.R. Zhaawendaagozikwe, L.B. Johnson, K.F. Kipfmueller, M.J. Dockry, V. Northrup, J. Savage, & R.W. Kimmerer, Indigenous fire stewardship shaped North American Great Lakes forests, (2025). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (34) e2500024122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2500024122

Muskrats to Moose Project Team (2023). We Are Fire: A Toolkit for Applying Indigenous-led Fire Practices and Western Fire Management in the Saskatchewan River Delta. http://www.wearefire.ca.

Cruz, C., K. McCovey, G. Russell, D. David-Chavez, L. Schneider, and C. Schultz. (2026). “ Barriers to Indigenous Fire Stewardship on Karuk Lands.” Ecology and Evolution 16, no. 4: e73479. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.73479.

Bowd, E.J., Cary, G.J., Freeman, D., Bell-Garner, B. and Lindenmayer, D. (2025), Plant Responses to a Re-emergence of Cultural Burning in Long-Unburnt, Threatened Temperate Woodlands. Glob Change Biol, 31: e70230. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70230

Lake, F. K., Wright, V., Morgan, P., McFadzen, M., McWethy, D., & Stevens-Rumann, C. (2017). Returning fire to the land: celebrating traditional knowledge and fire. Journal of Forestry, 115(5), 343-353.

Christianson, A. C., Sutherland, C. R., Moola, F., Gonzalez Bautista, N., Young, D., & MacDonald, H. (2022). Centering Indigenous voices: The role of fire in the Boreal Forest of North America. Current Forestry Reports, 8(3), 257-276.

Goode, R. W., Beard, S. F., & Oraftik, C. (2022). Putting Fire on the Land: The Indigenous People Spoke the Language of Ecology, and Understood the Connectedness and Relationship Between Land, Water, and Fire. Journal of California & Great Basin Anthropology, 42(1).

Booth, R. K., Schuurman, G. W., Lynch,  E. A., Huff, M. G., Bebout, J. A., & Montano, N. M. (2023).  Paleoecology provides context for conserving culturally and ecologically important pine forest and barrens communities. Ecological Applications, 33(6), e2901.

Cavanagh, V. (2022). The (re) emergence of Aboriginal women and cultural burning in New South Wales, Australia. Global application of prescribed fire, 86-94.

Wynecoop, M. D., Morgan, P., Strand,  E. K., & Sanchez Trigueros, F. (2019). Getting back to fire suméŝ:  exploring a multi-disciplinary approach to incorporating traditional  knowledge into fuels treatments. Fire ecology, 15(1), 1-18.

Tom, E., Adams, M. M., & Goode, R. W. (2023). Solastalgia to  soliphilia: cultural fire, climate change, and indigenous healing. Ecopsychology, 15(4), 322-330.

Murveit, A. M., Delphin, S.,  Domingues, C., Bourque, S. D., Faulstich, S. D., Garfin, G. M., ...  & Preston, V. (2023). Stories as data: Indigenous research  sovereignty and the “Intentional Fire” podcast. Environment and Planning F, 2(1-2), 180-202.