# What if Indigenous women ran controlled burns?

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/what-if-indigenous-women-ran-controlled-burns/
- Published: 2023-01-06T09:15:16-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: Participants Naomi Huddleston, Jesse Kidd and Ayuthea LaPier work together on an engine to hold the fire line and apply water as needed. Photo credit: Ren Brownell / Courtesy of Karuk Women’s TREX. Article by B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster. High Country News – December 30, 2022. It was Saturday, a hot one. In the remote mountains of Northern California, a group of mostly Indigenous women took a break from conducting prescribed burns. Some sat on mats in the early October shade, pounding woodwardia fern, splitting maidenhair ferns and weaving the stems into baskets, while others […] Click here to view original web page at www.hcn.org