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Good Fire Healing Coalition
Good Fire Healing Coalition- A partnership with Blue Lake Rancheria
Blue Lake Rancheria’s (BLR) ‘Good Fire Healing Coalition’ looks to build a regional team of Indigenous women cultural burners to be
housed at the Rancheria. The project will enact fire management regimes on recently acquired fee title lands. Fire management regimes, including prescribed and cultural burns, will be implemented for the restoration of pyrodependent ecosystems and cultural resources, supporting food sovereignty and Traditional Ecological Knowledge resurgence. Burn implementation will be the subject
of research through demonstration data collection, hands-on site restoration, and impact assessment on cultural resources; they also act as training workshops.
This program will include a formal partnership with the Rou Dalagurr: Food Sovereignty
Lab and Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute (FSL) at Cal Poly Humboldt, who will develop a Cultural Fire Literacy Certification, support Cultural Burn Team training, and a Fire-Centered Climate Action Plan.
Website: (https://www.bluelakerancheria-nsn.gov/)
Good Fire Healing Coalition Food Sovereignty Lab Team
Returning Good Fire to Wiyot Plaza
Sub project of the Good Fire Healing Coalition
Funded by SHIFT
Returning Good Fire to Wiyot Plaza aims to restore cultural fire practices to the Cal Poly Humboldt campus through education, collaboration, and ecological stewardship. Led by Indigenous students, the Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab, the Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute, and community cultural fire practitioners, the project is working to research, plan, and implement the first cultural burn at Wiyot Plaza. By creating a pathway for prescribed cultural fire on campus, the project seeks to heal the landscape, restore culturally important plants and ecosystems, and strengthen relationships between the university and the Wiyot community. The project supports the next generation of land stewards by reconnecting students with traditional ecological knowledge while demonstrating how universities can work collaboratively with Indigenous communities to support sovereignty, sustainability, and long-term care for the land.
