Photo by edkashi / Native American tribes, supported by volunteers, local university students, and California Fire Department staff, conduct "cultural burns" in Northern California, Feb. 2021. As television station KCET noted in its coverage of the event: "Although a wildfire is a tremendously dangerous thing, that's not all that fire is. Fire can be directed to these tremendously useful purposes in the forest, and it can course through the forest like electrons through a wire and energize those circuits that the forest has. It can turn on the meadows and encourage them to bloom at the right time of the year. It can create resistance to fire in certain places." #climatechange #california #californiafire #nativeamerican #culturalburning