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The film we selected for tonight’s feature brings an essential topic to the forefront of the fire management discussion: the knowledge and traditional practices of the people who are native to this place. Indigenous people across the west applied fire as a management tool to accomplish many objectives, from reducing fire risk near dwellings to improving conditions for hunting and for favored plant species like huckleberry. Their techniques were based on knowledge acquired through long and direct experience with the natural world, and their stewardship shaped ecosystems. Excluding indigenous people from natural resource management decision making, combined with the push to suppress wildfires across the landscape, has dramatically altered western forests. Now, as we gr

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