by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 10, 2018 | 10 o’clock policy, Columbia River, Forest fire, Indians and fire, Indians and salmon, intentional burning, salmon hatcheries, US Forest Service
The June exhibit at the Josephy Center was about dams and fish. One of the many things I learned in researching and preparing that exhibit was the ways in which 19th and early 20th century scientists and government officials ignored Indian knowledge about the habits...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 11, 2014 | fire cycles, Forest fire, Hurricane Creek, Nez Perce, Stephen Pyne, Wallowa Resources
We’re engulfed in smoke in the Wallowa Valley, more smoke than I can remember in my forty plus years living here. I think there have been bigger fires—Freezeout and the Canal Fire come to mind, but there seem to be fires on all sides of us now: fires in the Imnaha...
