New Report Calls for Transformational Change in Our Relationship to and Stewardship of Fire
March 8, 2024Photo: Analisa burning with a pitch stick. Photo credit: Alex Watts-Tobin
Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger partner Sara A. Clark is lead author on a new report, Good Fire II, that addresses barriers to the expansion of cultural burning and prescribed fire in the United States and provides recommended solutions.
Good Fire II builds on the original Good Fire report, published in 2021. Since its release, the original report has been widely cited by academics, lawmakers, and others as a key resource to help advocate for, and create the conditions that enable, increased use of good fire across California. This updated report takes the recommendations to a larger scale, calling for transformational change at both the state and federal levels, and providing a roadmap to revitalize the relationship between humans and fire, and the systems used to steward it.
Good Fire II was developed to complement the Biden-Harris Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission Report. Good Fire II provides additional detail to support policy reforms necessary to implement the Commission’s more general recommendations, while supporting Tribal sovereignty and prioritizing Tribal leadership at all levels of stewardship and fire management.
Bill Tripp, co-author of Good Fire II, served as the designated Tribal Government representative on the Commission, and Sara A. Clark, lead author, was a subject matter expert to the Commission.
For more information, please contact Sara A. Clark.