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Scholar urges inclusion of Indigenous land stewardship in California water and fire management
Summary
Dr. Enrique Salmon presented Indigenous ecological perspectives to the State Water Board panel, arguing that millennia of native stewardship — including practices like low‑intensity fire, selective pruning and seasonal harvest rotation — contain lessons for modern land, water and biodiversity management.
Dr. Enrique Salmon, introduced to the panel as an anthropologist and longtime scholar of Indigenous ecological knowledge, framed food practices and land management among Indigenous peoples as a locally specific, people‑centred form of ecosystem stewardship.
Salmon told the State Water Board's panel of experts that "para los pueblos indígenas, comer y cocinar son actos delibera" and outlined how Indigenous practices such as rotational…
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