Julian Jensen

Julian Jensen is a Graduate Research Assistant with the Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab. He was born and raised in the ancestral lands of the Lisjan Ohlone people, in a little trailer protected by winding oaks and towering slopes of Canyon, CA.  After seeing the oaks that raised him fall and die to diseases brought on by the colonial mismanagement of our forests, he dedicated his life to ecological and sustainability education informed by TEK. He comes by way of Oakland, CA where after obtaining a B.S in Forestry emphasis on Fire Management from Cal Poly Humboldt, he was the Ecological Technician at the Living Lab, an 8 acre native and veggie school garden, where he weaved stewardship education into all school disciplines, including teaching lessons in spiritual ecology and applied ecology. Now back in Humboldt, he works to assist the Karuk Tribe and the FSL in initiatives involving cultural fire stewardship and cultural fire management plans, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and community-based environmental research. His graduate work focuses on cultural fire as mitigation strategy for Phytophthora ramorum, the pathogen that causes Sudden Oak Death. He is also a coach of the cross country and track and field teams at Cal Poly Humboldt, where he holds the record in the indoor 800m run.

Prescribed Fire as a Potential Mitigation Strategy for Phytophthora ramorum and Field Accuracy Assessment of Identification