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from AP<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For tribes, ‘good fire’ a key to restoring nature and people<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By JOHN FLESHER<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brody Richardson, a member of the Yurok tribe, carries a torch as he takes part in a cultural training burn on the Yurok reservation in Weitchpec, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. (AP Photo\/David Goldman)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

WEITCHPEC, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Elizabeth Azzuz stood in prayer on a Northern California mountainside, arms outstretched, grasping a handmade torch of dried wormwood branches, the fuel her Native American ancestors used for generations to burn underbrush in thick forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGuide our hands as we bring fire back to the land,\u201d she intoned before crouching and igniting dead leaves and needles carpeting the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others joined her. And soon dancing flames and pungent smoke rose from the slope high above the distant Klamath River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over several days in early October, about 80 acres (32.4 hectares) on the Yurok reservation would be set aflame. The burning was monitored by crews wearing protective helmets and clothing \u2014 firefighting gear and water trucks ready. They were part of a program that teaches Yurok and other tribes the ancient skills of treating land with fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such an act could have meant jail a century ago. But state and federal agencies that long banned \u201ccultural burns\u201d in the U.S. West are coming to terms with them \u2014 and even collaborating \u2014 as the wildfire crisis worsens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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