Today’s newsletter is a special dispatch from the San Francisco bureau chief, Thomas Fuller, who spent time covering the fires in Australia. Bill Tripp learned to burn when he was 4 years old. “We’ve being doing it for millennia,” Mr. Tripp said. In listening to Mr. Tripp, a member of the Karuk tribe, I was struck by the parallels with Aboriginal burning traditions in northern Australia, which I wrote about during a two-week trip covering the fires. Native burning techniques have come into the spotlight as many parts of the world grapple with how to reduce destructive, out-of-control wildfires.

Source: New York Times January 24, 2020 14:26 UTC