Lee Klinger PhD
@suddenoaklife.bsky.social
Ecologist, Dept. of Natural Resources, Esselen Tribe Big Sur. Author of "Forged by Fire: The Cultural Tending of Trees and Forests in Big Sur and Beyond" (2024) www.suddenoaklife.org
Yesterday I visited an oak grove in Monterey that was hit hard by an oakworm infestation in 2017. Following a couple of fire mimicry treatments the oaks seem to be recovering nicely!
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#OakHealth #Oakworm #FireMimicry
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More results on a non-toxic treatment for oakworm infestations in coastal California
Last year I shared a post on a non-toxic treatment for oakworm infestations here on the Central Coast of California. In that post I stated: “In 2017 there was a severe oakworm infestation of …
suddenoaklife.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Yesterday I visited an oak grove in Monterey that was hit hard by an oakworm infestation in 2017. Following a couple of fire mimicry treatments the oaks seem to be recovering nicely!
🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅🌰
#OakHealth #Oakworm #FireMimicry
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#OakHealth #Oakworm #FireMimicry
Moving forward, one tree at a time ...
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Another successful canker surgery on an ancient coast live oak
This is a 2017 image of an old-growth coast live oak in Monterey that I’ve been treating with fire mimicry for eight years. At that time it had bleeding stem canker infection, possibly Sudden…
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December 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Moving forward, one tree at a time ...
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Different burn cycles for different landscapes: every 15 years, or seven years, four years, two years… It depends. infonews.ca/news/7435899...
Amid climate impacts, leading Secwépemc firekeeper shares ‘a better way of looking after the land’ | iNFOnews.ca
In a time of worsening wildfires, Joe Gilchrist says cultural burning ‘needs to be multiplied hundreds of times’ — returning to Indigenous stewardship.
infonews.ca
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Different burn cycles for different landscapes: every 15 years, or seven years, four years, two years… It depends. infonews.ca/news/7435899...
@bigthink.com Fascinating article by Ethan. My question is if there is a significant amount of information exchanged in the energy of a system, or within the universe, would that flow change the total energy of the system? bigthink.com/starts-with-...
Starts With A Bang
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October 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
@bigthink.com Fascinating article by Ethan. My question is if there is a significant amount of information exchanged in the energy of a system, or within the universe, would that flow change the total energy of the system? bigthink.com/starts-with-...
Here is an excellent article explaining why I've been so focused these last 10 years on building a relationship with the local Esselen Tribe and helping steward their lands. My hope is that more of you will start forming a relationship with your local tribes. They have much to teach us! 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅
The Future of Conservation: Indigenous Ways Meet Western Science
Collaboration and co-stewardship are bringing positive change across the country
www.sierraclub.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Here is an excellent article explaining why I've been so focused these last 10 years on building a relationship with the local Esselen Tribe and helping steward their lands. My hope is that more of you will start forming a relationship with your local tribes. They have much to teach us! 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅
Many of you have requested this, so here it is. For the love of trees please share! 🌲❤️🌎🍁🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅
Upcoming Workshop: Tending Oaks with Fire Mimicry
Hey fellow tree-huggers, especially those in SoCal, how would you like to learn about the health and care of our old-growth oak forests and what we can do to mitigate wildfires using the knowledge …
suddenoaklife.org
October 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Many of you have requested this, so here it is. For the love of trees please share! 🌲❤️🌎🍁🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅
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“To make shared stewardship meaningful, tribes must be allowed to lead within our own homelands. This means entering into long-term agreements that don’t just invite tribal input but are built around tribal vision, tribal priorities, and tribal knowledge…
It also means investing in our people.”
It also means investing in our people.”
Time for Tribes to Lead on Wildfire and Other Forest Management Priorities
By Cody Desautel
medium.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
“To make shared stewardship meaningful, tribes must be allowed to lead within our own homelands. This means entering into long-term agreements that don’t just invite tribal input but are built around tribal vision, tribal priorities, and tribal knowledge…
It also means investing in our people.”
It also means investing in our people.”
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“You don’t go and burn all your berries at the same time,” @amycardinal.bsky.social explained. “Indigenous fire management is based on intervals—knowing when patches have been burned, which patches are getting overgrown. It’s not a one-time, one-off approach. It’s ongoing stewardship.”
The Role of Good Fire in Nourishing Boreal Berries — Boreal Conservation
Summer in the Boreal Forest means an abundance of berries—blueberries, strawberries, cloudberries, raspberries, bunchberries, and more. These berries help sustain bears, moose, and other animals. Peop...
www.borealconservation.org
September 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“You don’t go and burn all your berries at the same time,” @amycardinal.bsky.social explained. “Indigenous fire management is based on intervals—knowing when patches have been burned, which patches are getting overgrown. It’s not a one-time, one-off approach. It’s ongoing stewardship.”
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This is good
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Agency, Resistance, Persistence
This month, the California History-Social Science Project invited Brianna Tafolla Rivière to write a guest post about bringing indigenous history into your classroom. Brianna is a historian and PhD ca...
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August 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This is good
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“There’s a school of thought that you can just put a fence around a forest and keep people out, and it will be protected, which is a very old-school view, a very colonial view. It comes from this idea that we came to a land that was ‘empty’ and there for the taking.”
On Controlling Fire, New Lessons from a Deep Indigenous Past
For centuries, the Native people of North America used controlled burns to manage the continent's forests. In an e360 interview, ecologist Lori Daniels talks about the long history of Indigenous burni...
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July 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“There’s a school of thought that you can just put a fence around a forest and keep people out, and it will be protected, which is a very old-school view, a very colonial view. It comes from this idea that we came to a land that was ‘empty’ and there for the taking.”
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Great story-map here. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a58f...
Johnson Ranch Open Space Cultural Burn
yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini (ytt) Northern Chumash Tribe brings back tinɨtʸu, "Good Fire" to ancestral homelands in a collaborative effort
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July 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Great story-map here. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a58f...
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The Signing Oak - Windsor Great Park, Berkshire
Photo: Jeroen Philippona
Photo: Jeroen Philippona
July 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
The Signing Oak - Windsor Great Park, Berkshire
Photo: Jeroen Philippona
Photo: Jeroen Philippona
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Farms commonly spread crushed limestone on fields to make the soil less acidic. This practice is typically considered a source of emissions, but it may actually remove carbon from the atmosphere.
Sprinkling limestone on farms may offer an unexpected climate win
Farms commonly spread crushed limestone on fields to make the soil less acidic – and this practice can also help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
www.newscientist.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Farms commonly spread crushed limestone on fields to make the soil less acidic. This practice is typically considered a source of emissions, but it may actually remove carbon from the atmosphere.
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“hundreds of hours of interviews with fire ecologists, botanists, members of County Fire, policymakers, and more were compiled to make a comprehensive guide of considerations and plans to bring back Chumash cultural fire.” www.independent.com/2025/07/16/i...
Introducing the Chumash Good Fire Project
The new initiative is bringing back cultural burns to indigenous lands.
www.independent.com
July 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“hundreds of hours of interviews with fire ecologists, botanists, members of County Fire, policymakers, and more were compiled to make a comprehensive guide of considerations and plans to bring back Chumash cultural fire.” www.independent.com/2025/07/16/i...
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I like Abuela Lucinda Vásquez Morales’s list of the purposes of burning: to protect, strengthen, teach, feed, heal. Seems a good motto. Also how she & Maria Meza say “how important it is that Indigenous Women be officially recognized for their role as the leaders in these processes and practices.”
July 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I like Abuela Lucinda Vásquez Morales’s list of the purposes of burning: to protect, strengthen, teach, feed, heal. Seems a good motto. Also how she & Maria Meza say “how important it is that Indigenous Women be officially recognized for their role as the leaders in these processes and practices.”
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A study of a pyrogenic carbon deposit in the East China Sea finds evidence of a sharp increase in human fire use around 50,000 years ago, likely due to both population increases and the chilly temperatures associated with glacial periods. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
July 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A study of a pyrogenic carbon deposit in the East China Sea finds evidence of a sharp increase in human fire use around 50,000 years ago, likely due to both population increases and the chilly temperatures associated with glacial periods. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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This week, there were hundreds if not thousands of brown pelicans, cormorants and osprey feeding on bait fish in the Klamath River estuary and plume. This is another sign the river is healing in response to dam removal.
July 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This week, there were hundreds if not thousands of brown pelicans, cormorants and osprey feeding on bait fish in the Klamath River estuary and plume. This is another sign the river is healing in response to dam removal.
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“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.”
Cultural burning: Wildfires in the Arctic – Wildfire Today
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July 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“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.”
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I was in British Columbia last month to learn about wildfires, which got me thinking about how we see the forests around us, and how it is not necessarily good thinking. 1/x
July 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I was in British Columbia last month to learn about wildfires, which got me thinking about how we see the forests around us, and how it is not necessarily good thinking. 1/x
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“Cultural burning in spring after the snowmelt and in fall before the rains stimulates plant growth and opens the land to wildlife.” indiginews.com/features/on-...
In Gitanyow territories, restorative fire heals the land and people: 'I think it’s a beautiful thing' - Indiginews
A controlled burn demonstrates how bringing back ancient Indigenous fire practices helps restore cultural connections and strengthen communities while mitigating risk
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July 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
“Cultural burning in spring after the snowmelt and in fall before the rains stimulates plant growth and opens the land to wildlife.” indiginews.com/features/on-...
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“When founded on the three pillars of respect (respect for self, others, and the environment), teaching fire provides a fantastic catalyst for the development of perseverance, patience, teamwork, nature connection, responsibility, community and survival skills.”
educatedbynature.com/term-program...
educatedbynature.com/term-program...
The Importance of Teaching Fire - Educated by Nature
Teaching fire provides a fantastic catalyst for the development of perseverance, teamwork, nature connection, responsibility, community and survival skills.
educatedbynature.com
July 6, 2025 at 12:17 AM
“When founded on the three pillars of respect (respect for self, others, and the environment), teaching fire provides a fantastic catalyst for the development of perseverance, patience, teamwork, nature connection, responsibility, community and survival skills.”
educatedbynature.com/term-program...
educatedbynature.com/term-program...
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“we burn to teach, to feed and to heal.” www.fao.org/indigenous-p...
Understanding Fire as a Necessary Tool
For thousands of years Indigenous Peoples have used fire to sustainably manage their lands, territories and natural resources. As ecological stewards, I...
www.fao.org
July 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
“we burn to teach, to feed and to heal.” www.fao.org/indigenous-p...