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The news about the fires in California keeps getting worse. The state’s governor says the increased frequency and growing intensity of wildfires ‘are the new abnormal.’ The human, environmental and economic costs keep rising. And California isn’t alone. Are there answers for slowing the troubling trend? We’ll talk with tribal forest managers about active efforts to reduce forest fires and ways to help individual property owners reduce the threat.
Guests:
Debra Utacia Krol (Xolon Salinan Tribe) – independent journalist
Jeremy Hunt – forest management and inventory planning forester for the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation for the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Rebecca Hunt (Colville) – administrative forester for the Confederated Tribes of the Colville
Break 1 Music: Red Man Groove Thing (song) Anthony Wakeman (artist) Handprints Of Our People (album)
Break 2 Music: Itchick (Tim Yellowtail’s Song) (song) Supaman (artist) Illuminatives (album)
