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When forest management tactics are used properly, they protect more than just the wild places. Here's a peek at several successful practices in California.

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Are government policies and bureaucracy the REAL fire starters in America? Are answers to a major crisis staring us in the face? Learn what brought us to this point, and the innovative solutions which could keep disaster from setting nature ablaze.

This clip comes from Season 1, Episode 1: "Burning Down the House"

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00:00People have a hard time with some logging practices and things like that, and yet when
00:07it's done right and done for fuels and forest health, and they see the results, they're
00:12much more supportive.
00:13We actually had a project where we built a fire break around a community and sure enough
00:18a fire started.
00:20Had it not been for that fire break, a half a billion dollars worth of property was likely
00:25burned.
00:27When people saw the success, like, oh that's what you're talking about, that's exactly
00:32why we did that project was to protect your property, we're getting more and more buy-in.
00:44This was burned in a 2017 wildfire that originated from Marble Mountain Ranch.
00:50Burned up the hill and they stopped it on this road system.
00:53Hey, we're heading down the hill now, down this little skid road.
00:59In Klamath, California, the team at Soames Bar Integrated Fire Management Project are
01:04making the transition to prescribed burning.
01:11The whole project was 5,500 acres, you know, that's the biggest project that's been planned
01:16here in my lifetime.
01:18I'm a tribal member and I grew up in my ancestral village of Woonkaruk on the lower Salmon River.
01:25You know, I started learning how to burn when I was four years old.
01:30So fire does a lot of things, you know.
01:32There was a time when we were trying to convince a wildlife biologist that we needed to do
01:37this type of work back in the mid-90s and he said, no, we can't do any burning because
01:42it's going to kill this endangered snail.
01:45It took some convincing, but we finally convinced him to let us go out there and burn some piles.
01:51And you know, he came back and he said, you know what, you just changed my mind.
01:57And I said, well, why was that?
01:59He said, because I went out and looked at that burn and every pile where there was still
02:04a chunk of charred wood, there was a snail.
02:09You know, there's benefits that people don't know, but what we do know is that we've been
02:15doing this in this place for thousands of years.
02:18That's the type of scale of evolutionary significance.
02:22Overall, what we've agreed to do is to work towards revitalizing those relationships with
02:30fire that we need to have in this place.
02:32Part of that being revitalizing our indigenous knowledge, practice and belief to get us there.

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