Bill Tripp
@culturalfire.bsky.social
Cultural fire practitioner, network bridge, place based steward engaging locally, regionally, and nationally. Helping to bring fire back to the people through a collective co-visioning in the good fire movement.
Great read. Maybe more relevant today than it was a year ago… www.sightline.org/2024/04/11/w...
What’s Misunderstood about Indigenous Cultural Fire Is Sovereignty | Sightline Institute
Lessons from the Karuk Tribe.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Great read. Maybe more relevant today than it was a year ago… www.sightline.org/2024/04/11/w...
Great video about the Reserverved Treaty Rights Lands program in Montana. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9grv...
Reserved Treaty Rights Lands Program: The Power of Partnership
YouTube video by The Nature Conservancy
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October 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Great video about the Reserverved Treaty Rights Lands program in Montana. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9grv...
Thanks for coming to visit and tell our stories @sadbumblebee.buzz ! Great to finally see the drone footage @byaliceli.bsky.social …
October 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Thanks for coming to visit and tell our stories @sadbumblebee.buzz ! Great to finally see the drone footage @byaliceli.bsky.social …
Wildfire, prescribed fire, AND cultural burning at the same time, in the same place. This is what right looks like in Karuk Territory! vimeo.com/1120338306?f...
Three Burns - The 2025 Butler Wildfire
In order to protect homes during the this summer’s Butler Fire on the Salmon River in Siskiyou County, local organizations with All Hands All Lands program…
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October 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Wildfire, prescribed fire, AND cultural burning at the same time, in the same place. This is what right looks like in Karuk Territory! vimeo.com/1120338306?f...
Great article by @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social of @boisestatepublicradio.org! www.boisestatepublicradio.org! www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/...
With reforms in place, California’s Karuk Tribe works to reestablish cultural burning as 'common practice'
For millennia, Indigenous peoples have intentionally set fires to care for the land. Colonization and fire exclusion largely put an end to those practices, though the tradition endured. Now, Californi...
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August 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Good read, you can’t just take thousands of years of cultural practice from a place without impacts. We must bring fire back to the people. We must perpetuate the practices that currently declining species have come to depend. We must revitalize our indigenous knowledge, practice, and belief systems
Coming back to the inspirations in this article, including the idea of a Wildland *Cultural* Interface: “We need to reframe cultural resources and values at risk into a matrix of action; we need to understand the cultural structures that need protection…and they need to be fully accounted for.”
“The man didn’t have to cut a fireline with a Pulaski or a chainsaw; he didn’t have to work in a bulldozer cutting a dozer line; and he didn’t have to have air support to keep the fire out of the trees. The snow did the work.”
July 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Good read, you can’t just take thousands of years of cultural practice from a place without impacts. We must bring fire back to the people. We must perpetuate the practices that currently declining species have come to depend. We must revitalize our indigenous knowledge, practice, and belief systems
I just gotta say, way to pull our collective works into a great and timely news story… We hope to tie in with Quartz Valley this coming late winter to help spur positive fire outcomes with our neighbors to the northeast as well… 🙂
www.siskiyou.news/2025/07/10/k...
www.siskiyou.news/2025/07/10/k...
Karuk Tribe’s Fire Stewardship Shines Amid Wildfires - Siskiyou News
As wildfires tear through Northern California’s rugged terrain, the Karuk Tribe leads a quieter, deliberate fire on the other side of the mountain. In the Siskiyou region, their cultural fire practiti...
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July 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I just gotta say, way to pull our collective works into a great and timely news story… We hope to tie in with Quartz Valley this coming late winter to help spur positive fire outcomes with our neighbors to the northeast as well… 🙂
www.siskiyou.news/2025/07/10/k...
www.siskiyou.news/2025/07/10/k...
As federal, tribal, state and local firefighters respond to the 2025 Butler fire, the All Hands All Lands burn team implemented a prescribed fire on private property near Butler Creek. A cultural burn was conducted near Tribal homes. This is how things should be done.
July 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As federal, tribal, state and local firefighters respond to the 2025 Butler fire, the All Hands All Lands burn team implemented a prescribed fire on private property near Butler Creek. A cultural burn was conducted near Tribal homes. This is how things should be done.
There is a long overdue conversation happening on Facebook in regard to these Northern California wilderness fires. If we are serious about changing the paradigm, let’s start now!
July 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
There is a long overdue conversation happening on Facebook in regard to these Northern California wilderness fires. If we are serious about changing the paradigm, let’s start now!
Karuk Tribal Youth Forestry Camp participants, led by Cultural Fire Practitioners under an SB 310 agreement, pulled off an unplanned cultural burn without incident this week. So much easier when experienced people can go to where conditions are right to make good things like this happen! :-)
June 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Karuk Tribal Youth Forestry Camp participants, led by Cultural Fire Practitioners under an SB 310 agreement, pulled off an unplanned cultural burn without incident this week. So much easier when experienced people can go to where conditions are right to make good things like this happen! :-)
See today’s testimony I delivered on the Tribal Self Determination and Comanagement in Forestry Act at this link. My portion starts at the 1:33:16 mark. There is much more included in the written testimony. But a 5 minute summary is a five minute summary. naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eve...
Hearings | House Committee on Natural Resources
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June 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
See today’s testimony I delivered on the Tribal Self Determination and Comanagement in Forestry Act at this link. My portion starts at the 1:33:16 mark. There is much more included in the written testimony. But a 5 minute summary is a five minute summary. naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eve...
I am receiving an honorary doctorate today during the commencement ceremony beginning at 12:00 pm. click here to view live commencement.humboldt.edu/live
Live streaming - Class of 2025, Spring Commencement | CommencementCal Poly HumboldtCal Poly Humboldt
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May 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I am receiving an honorary doctorate today during the commencement ceremony beginning at 12:00 pm. click here to view live commencement.humboldt.edu/live
Getting back to our roots… medium.com/@intertribal...
Good Fire and Strong Sovereignty: Cultural Burning as a Path to Indigenous-Led Forest Stewardship
By Bill Tripp
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May 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Getting back to our roots… medium.com/@intertribal...
I love working with these people. Looking forward to the next 10 years. fireadaptednetwork.org/10-years-of-...
Igniting Change Over 10 Years of the Indigenous Peoples Burning Network - Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network
By Fire Networks Staff
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May 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I love working with these people. Looking forward to the next 10 years. fireadaptednetwork.org/10-years-of-...
Healing Water: magazine.rotary.org/rotary/may_2...
Healing Water
In that dismal December of 2015, it was hard to say who was more bereft...
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May 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Healing Water: magazine.rotary.org/rotary/may_2...
Priorities… :-) youtu.be/AskCYsXWKpA?...
Controlled Burns Prevent Wildfire | Firelighters: Fire is Medicine | Full Film | Local, USA
YouTube video by WORLD
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April 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Priorities… :-) youtu.be/AskCYsXWKpA?...
More news on cultural burning if there are still folks out there needing to hear the message! ictnews.org/news/cultura...
Cultural burning: ‘Fire teaches us many lessons’
Haruk Tribe signs historic agreement with California to remove barriers to use of ‘good fire’ in land stewardship
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April 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
More news on cultural burning if there are still folks out there needing to hear the message! ictnews.org/news/cultura...
A message from Jim Durglo, a long time indigenous forest and fire management advocate. medium.com/@intertribal...
CULTURAL BURNING HAS LESSONS FOR TODAY’S SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT
By Jim Durglo
medium.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A message from Jim Durglo, a long time indigenous forest and fire management advocate. medium.com/@intertribal...
An important message from a fellow thought leader in fire and one of the most passionate speakers I know. the-lookout.org/2025/04/05/w...
Will Harling Speaks on Burning at the Landscape Scale - The Lookout
If you’ve followed our work, you’ve probably heard about my friend and colleague, Will Harling, who is a leader in bringing community-based prescribed fire back to the Klamath River after a century of...
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April 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
An important message from a fellow thought leader in fire and one of the most passionate speakers I know. the-lookout.org/2025/04/05/w...
It truly is a great honor to be recognized in this way… a special thanks to each and every one of you that have touched the very foundations of this in so many ways… you know who you are!Yootva to you all from the very center of my being. kymkemp.com/2025/04/15/c...
Cal Poly Humboldt Awards Honorary Doctorate of Humane Sciences to Karuk Cultural Fire Visionary
“Tripp exemplifies Cal Poly Humboldt’s 21st-century polytechnic identity by centering Indigenous Knowledge in applied sciences to address real-world problems and enhance people’s lives locally…
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April 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It truly is a great honor to be recognized in this way… a special thanks to each and every one of you that have touched the very foundations of this in so many ways… you know who you are!Yootva to you all from the very center of my being. kymkemp.com/2025/04/15/c...
Looking for someone that can lead the Indigenous Stewardship Network and help progress a new era if indigenous stewardship throughout California. jobs.gusto.com/postings/ind...
Network Director (Remote - California Based) at Indigenous Stewardship Network
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March 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Looking for someone that can lead the Indigenous Stewardship Network and help progress a new era if indigenous stewardship throughout California. jobs.gusto.com/postings/ind...
How the Klamath Dams Came Down! grist.org/project/indi...
How the Klamath Dams Came Down
Last year, tribes in Oregon and California pulled off the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story.
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March 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
How the Klamath Dams Came Down! grist.org/project/indi...
Reposted by Bill Tripp
“Karuk Tribe right to cultural burning affirmed in agreement with California” www.cbc.ca/news/indigen... - CBC News
#CAFire #CulturalBurning #Indigenous
#CAFire #CulturalBurning #Indigenous
Karuk Tribe right to cultural burning affirmed in agreement with California | CBC News
A first of it's kind agreement between a tribe in northern California could prevent the build-up of wildfire fuel, First Nations firekeepers in Canada say.
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March 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
“Karuk Tribe right to cultural burning affirmed in agreement with California” www.cbc.ca/news/indigen... - CBC News
#CAFire #CulturalBurning #Indigenous
#CAFire #CulturalBurning #Indigenous
Hope other States and Tribes also choose this path as we embark on this new era of shared stewardship! kmud.org/karuk-tribe-...
Karuk Tribe and California Natural Resources Agency Finalize Historic Agreement to Advance Tribal Sovereignty and Cultural Fire Practices - KMUD | Redwood Community Radio
California is making a historic move to honor tribal sovereignty, passing a new cultural burning law and establishing the first-ever cultural burning agreement with the Karuk Tribe, which has lived on...
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March 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Hope other States and Tribes also choose this path as we embark on this new era of shared stewardship! kmud.org/karuk-tribe-...