Wildfires on Tribal Lands
Tanyon J Kennedy Tosa
Jemez Pueblo
Wildfires on Tribal Lands
Tanyon J Kennedy Tosa
Jemez Pueblo
Reasearch Log 1
Sharing one skin by Jeannette Armstrong is about the Okonagan community and this story is about the characters experiences about her life and they talk about her communities 4 capacities of self which are physical, emotional, thinking intellectual and spiritual.
Jeannette Armstrong works to protect indigenous philosophies and Oral Syilx Stories. UBC Okanagan News. (2022, January 21). Retrieved November 15, 2022, from https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2021/10/06/jeannette-armstrong-works-to-protect-indigenous-philosophies-and-oral-syilx-stories/
What the article “How place names impact the way we see landscape” is about is that many places like mountains and rivers and lakes have a colonized name like for instance the mountain named “san francisco peaks” in the navajo language they are called Dook’o’oostrid which means translates “perpetually covered with snow”. Laura Tohe says that “ we have to show the proper reverence for these places so we don't pollute them”. She says this because a nearby resort uses recycled sewage to make snow for the mountains. She wants people to see the world how she sees it herself and how her grandma saw it. Her grandma said all water has a spirit and so they introduce themselves so it knows its them.
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U.S. Department of the Interior. (n.d.). Forest fires in Yellowstone: The science of burning and regrowth (U.S. National Park Service). National Parks Service. Retrieved November 15, 2022, from https://www.nps.gov/articles/fires-yell.htm
“Yellowstone National Park, 1988: A 25th Anniversary Retrospective (U.S. National Park Service).” National Parks Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, https://www.nps.gov/articles/wildland-fire-yell-1988-25th-anniv-retrospective.htm.
Article citation
Yellowstone National Park, 1988: A 25th Anniversary Retrospective
In 1988 in Yellowstone National Park the fire season was very bad from the drought. Yellowstone was fencing at the time. All the years before it was not that bad because the park let about 235 fires burn all by themselves from their fire policy and only about 15 were larger than 100 acres. In 1988 the fire season was predictable and when the rain fell the park received higher rainfall. By June everything was already dry and the fuels like trees, grass and small shrubs were just adding on to make things worse for the fire season. By the start of early summer thunderstorms came but only came with lighting and no rain and from then on fire season began. By July 15th, only 18,307 acres had burned in the entire Yellowstone but within a week, fires within the park alone encompassed nearly 99,000 acres, and by the end of the month, dry fuels and high winds combined to make the larger fires nearly uncontrollable. On Saturday August 20th after winds pushed the fire across more than 150,000 acres they named it Black saturday because of that. A total of 248 fires started in the greater Yellowstone area in 1988 45 of those were in Yellowstone National Park. Despite widespread misconceptions that all fires were initially allowed to burn, only 25 of the total were; of these, 22 began inside the park. In the end, seven major fires were responsible for more than 95 percent of the burned acreage. Five of those fires were ignited outside the park, and three of them were human-caused fires that firefighters attempted to control from the beginning.
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Log in or sign up to view. Facebook. (n.d.). Retrieved November 15, 2022, from https://www.facebook.com/LosAlamosFire/
The Los Conchas Fire
On June 26 2011 about 1 pm the Los Conchas fire began and it began by a tree collapsing and falling onto a powerline. As i read it said that within the first 13 hours of the fire it burned about 44,000 acres meaning it was bruins about 1 acre per second. Over the couple of weeks it grew and grew and burned about 150,000 acres and from then on it grew to be known as the biggest fire in NM history. The reason the fire took off so fast was because of the dry year NM had that year and all the vegetation was dry and added on for fuel to the fire. The fire held a big threat to LANL and parks around the fire. For the bandelier just the first night all things that were able to go were brought into the museum and placed there for protection from the fire and also the floods that were going to happen after the fire swept through the area. Park service placed about 14000 sandbags around the CCC building because water held a great threat to the area. Also during the fire the building was slimed with fire resistant material. I think it was covered in retardant. Red stuff to help stop fires from going any farther out to prevent crown fires that are on top of trees hopping one to another.
“1988 Fires.” National Parks Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/1988-fires.htm.
“Yellowstone National Park, 1988: A 25th Anniversary Retrospective (U.S. National Park Service).” National Parks Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, https://www.nps.gov/articles/wildland-fire-yell-1988-25th-anniv-retrospective.htm.
Article citation
In 1988 in Yellowstone National Park the fire season was very bad from the drought. Yellowstone was fencing at the time. All the years before it was not that bad because the park let about 235 fires burn all by themselves from their fire policy and only about 15 were larger than 100 acres. In 1988 the fire season was predictable and when the rain fell the park received higher rainfall. By June everything was already dry and the fuels like trees, grass and small shrubs were just adding on to make things worse for the fire season. By the start of early summer thunderstorms came but only came with lighting and no rain and from then on fire season began. By July 15th, only 18,307 acres had burned in the entire Yellowstone but within a week, fires within the park alone encompassed nearly 99,000 acres, and by the end of the month, dry fuels and high winds combined to make the larger fires nearly uncontrollable. On Saturday August 20th after winds pushed the fire across more than 150,000 acres they named it Black saturday because of that. A total of 248 fires started in the greater Yellowstone area in 1988; 45 of those were in Yellowstone National Park. Despite widespread misconceptions that all fires were initially allowed to burn, only 25 of the total were; of these, 22 began inside the park. In the end, seven major fires were responsible for more than 95 percent of the burned acreage. Five of those fires were ignited outside the park, and three of them were human-caused fires that firefighters attempted to control from the beginning.
“'Wake-up Call': Wildfires Tear through Drought-Plagued Us South-West.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 26 Aug. 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/26/wildfires-us-south-west-colorado-arizona-new-mexico-utah.
New Mexico wildfires leave devastation amid historic drought
In this video they talk about the calf canyon and hermit's peak fire and how it started and took off from the prescribed burn that was happening. They also say that another reason the fire was so big was the warm windy dry weather and the drought that they say coupled with climate change for longer and more destructive fires.
“New Mexico Wildfires Leave Devastation amid Historic Drought.” YouTube, 22 May 2022, https://youtu.be/hxqWS3kLMyY.
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Coyote Gulch. “What Does Forest Restoration in the U.S. Southwest Look like in the Age of #Climatechange? - ENSIA @jimodonnell2.” Coyote Gulch, 21 Oct. 2022, https://coyotegulch.blog/2022/10/21/what-does-forest-restoration-in-the-u-s-southwest-look-like-in-the-age-of-climatechange-ensia-jimodonnell2/.
WHAT DOES FOREST RESTORATION IN THE U.S. SOUTHWEST LOOK LIKE IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE?
Well In this article it is talking about New Mexico's past fire the Calf canyon/ Hermit's peak fire and essentially what it is saying it that Climate Change played a big role in this fire because the area where it burned was so dry from the droughts it easily burned and they say normally good mature forest would be able to regenerate and come back to its full potential again but not this forest because of the long droughts NM has been facing for the past years and because of that and climate change forest that have burned and will burn in the future they will never come back to there full potential as they were before and I believe that because of the Venado fire burn scar it burned in 2018 and since then it has not recovered to its full potential because of the dry weather and my connection to this article I read is that I know climate change is changing our lands not only in forested areas but at home too because when we start preparing for planting season at the field the soil is more dry each year and harder to break through and the weeds are getting dryer and water is getting more scarce and everything catches fire easily when we are burning the weeds to clean and while we are doing all those things the weather we are working in it is very hot and dry. And I can tell there has been a big change because as a kid still in elementary school it wasn't this bad as it is now and it is getting worse each year.
“What the Amazon Rainforest Tells Us about Globalization.” World Economic Forum, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/can-globalization-co-exist-with-the-fight-against-climate-change/.
What the Amazon rainforest tells is about globalization In this article they are talking about the amazon rainforest and what it is facing with the current globalization and deforestation. The reason I chose to read this article is because Amazon has lost about 20% of its forest from deforestation and for agricultural purposes and to me it plays a big role because I know some forests are getting the same thing y people moving into the area and cutting down trees for either lumber firewood or more and to clear the area so they can have more of what they want and i feel like that would be commercialization. In the Amazon many parts of the continent are losing their forest for agricultural purposes because as it says in the article “ Agriculture has, since ancient times, been the primary cause of deforestation. Europe’s fields were once primeval forests too. But, in our modern era, the demands for agricultural goods are no longer confined to domestic needs. Demand for Brazilian soy or beef is now, to a large degree, a factor of demand in the US or China. It is a factor of globalization”. To me this means that the Brazilians are cutting down more and more land and will continue because the people there need the soy and beef for food and more and they are the providers of the foods.
“Timber Resources.” Home - National Geographic Society, https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/timber-resources/.
What economic value do forests have? Global ideas
What this video talks about is how different industries are destroying forests for agricultural purposes. The organization called Red Plus is speaking on behalf of the forest so there will be no deforestation because they want the trees to keep doing what they are doing and providing oxygen. The red plus want to help forest, animals and also local communities in the amazon i would say but they want to help them thrive and become hopefully more like costa rica where they have forest tourism so there will not be any deforestation.
Action Plan 1
On November 9th I invited the Natural resource department from Jemez pueblo to give a presentation on what they are doing to keep our tribal lands safe that are in the forest. I wanted students who participated to understand that Jemez NRD is putting in efforts to keep our lands safe as possible from past and future fires.
Action plan 2
On March 2nd I invited Jemez Pueblo Natural Resource Department to come talk to the Middle school students for Jessie Abeyta and Micheal Begay classes so that students will know the projects that are going in around Jemez pueblo in the bosque or in the forest to help our community and to hopefully get them interested in forestry work for there career in the future.