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What Native-held lands in California can teach about resilience and the future of wildfire

  • Written by Nina Fontana, Researcher in Native American Studies, University of California, Davis
imageBlue oak woodlands in California offer beauty and opportunities to sustain traditional knowledge and ecological resilience.Nina Fontana, CC BY-NC-ND

It took decades, stacks of legal paperwork and countless phone calls, but, in the spring of 2025, a California Chuckchansi Native American woman and her daughter walked onto a 5-acre parcel of land,...

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