Indigenous Fire Shaped Great Lakes Forests
Read more of the science behind efforts to restore cultural fire to Great Lakes Forests here, along with other media and outreach:
Weaving Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Western Science, this publication brings together oral histories, archaeological evidence and centuries of tree-ring data, to tell a more complete and just story of human-land relationships in what is now northern Wisconsin and Minnesota.
This represents a model for the co-production of research that recognizes the value and insights offered by both Indigenous and Western sciences and honors those whose histories and futures are connected to the work.
Published as an open-access paper, this ensures that those who are connected to this work are fully able to access and evaluate the data, interpretations, and recommendations of the authors.
An electronic version of the publication that is free to download and share is available from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences website: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500024122
“These results help (re)center Indigenous Knowledge and traditional fire-use practices in the process of ecocultural fire restoration for the creation of diverse, resilient, and just socioecological systems...”
