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In northern California, the Karuk Tribe is burning its way back to a centuries-old relationship with fire

Murphy Woodhouse

January 27, 2025 |

Boise State Public Radio (KBSX) |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Orleans, California

The Karuk Tribe of Northern California is revitalizing its ancient practice of cultural burning as both a proactive wildfire management strategy and a revival of crucial cultural traditions. Through coordinated, culturally-focused prescribed burns called KTREX, the tribe is restoring the ecosystem, improving community wildfire resilience, and strengthening traditional ecological knowledge.

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Early results suggest communities stop logging during basic income pilot project

Sonam Lama Hyolmo

January 27, 2025 |

Mongabay |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Amazon, Peru

After two seasons, an unconditional cash-transfer pilot project for Indigenous peoples in Peru’s Amazon has resulted in a positive impact on families who, in the past, would turn to unsustainable or illegal forest activities as a response to economic stress and food insecurity. According to the pilot's latest internal assessment, three communities are no longer engaging in illegal forest activities to make ends meet.

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Campus food forest fosters community, offers number of opportunities through regenerative agriculture

Dalia Zamora

October 24, 2024 |

Hilltop Views |

Text |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

A food forest uses a stack system in which all plants serve more than one purpose. At St. Edwards, the food forest is still young, but provides organic and locally produced food available for the entire community.

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These Goats Graze an Acre a Day to Keep California's Wildfires Away

Carmen Kohlruss

October 02, 2024 |

Civil Eats |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, California

A herd of goats, directed by shepherds of the nonprofit Happy Goat, are eating weeds, shrubs, and low-hanging leaves for landowners in the Sierra Nevada to reduce wildfire risk. Managed carefully to ensure they don’t overgraze sections of the properties, the goats offer a safer option to reduce the fuel that can spark a fire than tools like lawnmowers and chainsaws.

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School-age kids lead the fight for a greener future in Nigeria's Borno State

Rukaiyatu Idris

October 01, 2024 |

Prime Progress |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Borno State

Volunteers from the Breath with Green Youth Development Initiative visit elementary schools in Borno, Nigeria, to teach students about climate change while planting trees. Their goal is to educate students about how they can take action to mitigate the climate impacts they’re experiencing.

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A Firewood Lot is Helping This Timber Town Recover

Ashli Blow

August 12, 2024 |

Triple Pundit |

Text |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Oakridge, Oregon

A locally-owned wood lot in Oakridge, Oregon, collects piles of debris from the surrounding forest that could become fuel for wildfires and turns it into firewood for the community. Alongside wildfire mitigation, the business reduces the air pollution residents create when their only option is to burn wet wood for heat.

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Agroforestry offers Thai rubber farmers a pathway to profit and sustainability

Carolyn Cowan

July 31, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Thailand

Government agencies, trade groups, and businesses are working together to provide agroforestry training and environmental education to rubber farmers in Thailand. Cultivating rubber alongside other useful trees and crops is better for the environment than monoculture farms and increases farmers’ profits.

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My Neck of the Woods

Felix James Miller

July 19, 2024 |

Plough |

Text |

Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York

Community activism in the late 1800s led to the creation of a unique 6.1 million-acre forest preserve in New York called Adirondack Park. It’s explicitly protected by the state constitution and consists of half publicly-owned land and half privately-owned land.

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How Ecotourism Became an Unexpected Climate Solution in an At-Risk Guatemalan National Park

Jorge Rodríguez, Isabella Rolz

July 15, 2024 |

Sentient |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Guatemala

The community living in Northern Guatemala’s Sierra del Lacandón National Park monitors the landscape for fires set by people looking to clear the forest illegally and is trained to prevent them from spreading. They’re focusing on ecotourism as an alternative way to earn a living.

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Fighting fire with beavers: How dam-building rodents are deployed to prevent megafires, restore scorched wildlands

Bay Stephens

April 19, 2024 |

The Colorado Sun |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Colorado

Riverscapes inhabited by beavers fare far better than other areas during extreme wildfires because they hold back and spread out water, pushing it further into the ground. These spaces become critical pockets of habitat for animals to shelter in and can function as fire breaks. Restoration experts in Colorado are building structures that mimic beaver dams in hopes of replicating the effect and, if they’re lucky, incentivizing beavers to return.

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