Learning how to garden a forest - discussion of methods to prevent wildfire

As someone who worked on part of the FHiRE (Fire and Human in Resilient Ecosystems) project, I was worried for a bit that I'd been writing articles in my sleep as I've probably said 90% of the main points of the article in casual conversation.

That said, the article focuses a lot on the Native contributions and, yes, across the globe Native people (California, Arizona, Aboriginal Australians) were using fire to manage the lands prior to European intrusion. The benefit was the active management and the fire. The spiritualism of rituals is good from a cultural viewpoint but it's important to avoid the 'ecologically noble savage' trope when discussing pyroecology.

Though, I'm happy to see greater understanding always but I feel an excessive coverage of the 'native' way of doing it usually gets misrepresented by mainstream publications to infer that they possess a secret knowledge somehow missing in the 'white man's world' instead of just having centuries of managing ecosystems directly.

Though, native tribes have centuries of experience managing the land and I'm always happy to see them regain some of their culture and everything.