Breaking Green Ceilings

Breaking Green Ceilings


EP 24: Bringing Fire Back to the Karuk Tribe

July 28, 2020

Bill Tripp is a Karuk Tribal Member and Interim Director of the Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources. He began learning how to work with fire from the age of four from his Grandmother.  His work to restore fire into the hands of Karuk People through an integrated Traditional Ecological Knowledge and western science framework has been instrumental in shaping state and federal policy changes in regards to prescribed fire.


Show Notes


Topics Discussed:



  • Ecological Importance of Cultural Burns
  • History of Cultural Burns in the U.S. and Globally
  • Importance of Fire to the Karuk Tribe

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