Tag: Yurok

April 13, 2022

Tribes used fire to shape California forests for millennia

Managers are increasingly turning to prescribed fire to address unhealthy forest conditions in California. But as researchers recently explored in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they are...

February 7, 2022

The January issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management

The Journal of Wildlife Management is a benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published eight times annually, it is one of the world’s leading scientific journals covering wildlife science, management...

January 18, 2022

JWM: Integrating Yurok knowledge and wildlife management

Wildlife researchers are increasing their efforts to interweave western science with Indigenous knowledge to improve wildlife management. Seafha Ramos, a TWS member, has worked with her Yurok community to build...

October 29, 2019

How tribes used fire to shape the landscape — and wildlife

California is battling another season of catastrophic wildfires, but before European colonization, the Yurok tribe used quieter, controlled burning to shape the landscape and the wildlife that occupied it. “We...