The goal of the Indigenous Peoples Burning Network (IPBN) is
to revitalize the implementation of cultural burns in native communities
through the cultivation of an intertribal support system in which traditional
ecological knowledge is shared and rights are protected. The Yurok-Hupa-Karuk
IPBN is the first in what may grow into a network that includes multiple
indigenous fire cultures in many geographies aimed at developing capacity in
two worlds of fire—contemporary and traditional.
This poster gives a brief overview of the Yurok-Hupa-Karuk
IPBN in the spring of 2016. Developed for the annual Learning Networks Workshop, April 25-29, Jacksonville, FL.
The Indigenous Peoples Burning Network—along with the Fire
Learning Network, Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges and the Fire Adapted
Communities Learning Network—is supported by Promoting Ecosystem Resilience and
Fire Adapted Communities Together (PERFACT), a cooperative agreement between
The Nature Conservancy, the USDA Forest Service and agencies of the Department
of the Interior.