“in December, the city council passed a law to phase out 7,000 vacation rentals on the island – 15% of the island’s housing stock – to house fire survivors and other locals…
“Our vision is restoring relationship to ‘āina [land],… grounded in the real history of this place.”
If this is the ballclub’s next owner, all I can say is the Padres have come a long way from the old Ray Kroc days.
In addition to Dr. Hankins’s work, you might want to look into the California Native Grasslands Association and land imprinting methods for successful perennial grass restoration.
I do, both native annual and perennial grasses, and you’re welcome. Get back to me after you have been able to devote some time to a few simple searches.
Yes. Search him up. He’s at Chico State.
See @pyrogeographer.bsky.social’s work.
You can't just burn or bulldoze gaps into the chaparral mega-thicket and then abandon them (or, worse, maintain the gaps with herbicide). You're going to have to return to tend the land frequently (or, better, support the Indigenous people of the place who have been tending it from time immemorial).
And please spare me from any arguments that these grassy gaps in the chaparral will be invaded by exotic, more-flammable species. Restoring a biome means restoring and sustaining all of its components, including native bunchgrasses, herbs, and wildflowers, even if it's difficult to do so.
![Origin and history of chaparral
chaparral (n.)
"dense, low shrub thicket," 1850, American English, from Spanish chaparro
"evergreen oak," perhaps from Basque txapar "little thicket," diminutive of sapar
"heath, thicket."
In Spain, a chaparral is a bush of a species of oak. The termination al signifies a place abounding in; as, chaparral, a place of oak-bushes, almendral, an almond orchard; parral, a vineyard; cafetal, a coffee plantation, etc., etc.
This word, chaparral, has been introduced into the language since our acquisition of Texas and New Mexico, where these bushes abound. It is a series of thickets, of various sizes, from one hundred yards to a mile through, with bushes and briars, all covered with thorns, and so closely entwined together as almost to prevent the passage of any thing larger than a wolf or hare. [John Russell Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1859]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eypk5upouxdci6onpwqzfli7/bafkreibbp5rhzbccuo2s2zn6a57du633znvnxgrtvlhrgazn6b6fbz6nl4)
Origin and history of chaparral chaparral (n.) "dense, low shrub thicket," 1850, American English, from Spanish chaparro "evergreen oak," perhaps from Basque txapar "little thicket," diminutive of sapar "heath, thicket." In Spain, a chaparral is a bush of a species of oak. The termination al signifies a place abounding in; as, chaparral, a place of oak-bushes, almendral, an almond orchard; parral, a vineyard; cafetal, a coffee plantation, etc., etc. This word, chaparral, has been introduced into the language since our acquisition of Texas and New Mexico, where these bushes abound. It is a series of thickets, of various sizes, from one hundred yards to a mile through, with bushes and briars, all covered with thorns, and so closely entwined together as almost to prevent the passage of any thing larger than a wolf or hare. [John Russell Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1859]
From the online etymology dictionary, www.etymonline.com/word/chaparral. *Chaparral* means a place populated by a *series of little thickets of shrubs,* not a region-blanketing, solid mega-thicket. To restore chaparral, restore these little thickets and the grass- and forb-filled gaps between them.
Thank you, @amycardinal.bsky.social!
So much of this is applicable to the U.S. In particular, I hear many of these myths espoused by those who oppose Indigenous fire stewardship in the chaparral. It's great to see them debunked so thoroughly here.
www.ilinationhood.ca/blog/indigen...
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Powerful essay here.
“For years, conservationists have promoted tourism as a ‘sustainable’ alternative to mining or logging. But tourism can be just as extractive and harmful…
“There’s no citable evidence it benefits the ecology or anything else beyond non-profit coffers and the outdoor industry.”
Today’s bear reintroducers should shift their focus to a longterm, sustainable plan for tending adequate habitat before they try to shoehorn grizzlies into inadequate habitat. Build the fields of grizzly dreams. Burn it and they will come.
Today’s bear reintroducers should shift their focus to a longterm, sustainable plan for tending adequate habitat before they try to shoehorn grizzlies into inadequate habitat. Build the fields of grizzly dreams. Burn it and they will come.
I’d add, I learned from a cultural fire practitioner up on the Klamath that back in the day people would tend bear habitat to ensure that the bears had their own areas with enough food, so people and bears could stay out of each other’s way.
That SacBee article includes some good quotations from the Yurok biologist. Regarding Kings Canyon, a few years ago I tried to get the grizzly researchers in touch with Holkoma, Wuksachi & other Native people of the area. Took one of the researchers to a bear dance. He didn’t really seem to get it.
Would love to hear your thoughts sometime on how to go about gaining insights into interconnections among cultural fire, salmon, trout, and other fish in the southern Sierra Nevada.
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So in the face of this reorganization, my question is, how can Tribes collaborate with researchers to find “the most effective ways to reduce fire hazards in degraded forests and [update] maps of fire threats to rural communities, wildlife habitats, and carbon storage?”
www.opb.org/article/2026...
Made a list out of the starter pack I made a while back: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Loss, peril, and opportunity: as federal agencies shrink and reorganize, keep in mind that Tribes are not “stakeholders.” Tribes are governing bodies with exclusive, concurrent, and conflicting jurisdiction in relation to federal, state, and local governments (and individuals) in Tribal homelands.
Sure thing, and thanks for your good article.
Nice. It will be exciting to see "Landkeeping" in print soon!
June 2nd! 🤞
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