“Ecosystems that depend on fire have been subject to a management culture of fire suppression for over a hundred years now. As a result, three times the amount of biomass and vegetation exists on the landscape. It’s sucking up water, building fuel loads, and causing dramatic changes in water conditions for threatened and endangered aquatic species like salmon. Meanwhile, devastating wildfires are ripping through communities across the country, leaving destruction in their path. There are, however, examples of people and communities doing things differently by combining Indigenous knowledge with Western fire management. Through the lens of three key experts in fisheries biology, traditional ecological knowledge and fire ecology, we can reshape our understanding to learn how fire plays an integral role in the flow of resources and nutrients in the landscape, and how you can’t restore salmon until you restore fire.” Excerpt from the Volume Seven story, “Fisheries and Fire Restoration" ...