Fire Renews Life

According to Bill Tripp, a member of the Karuk tribe in Northern California and a forest manager,

Fire is that which renews life. A lot of people have been conditioned to look at it as a threat and something that’s scary, something to avoid, whereas in my worldview, that’s not necessarily the case. If you can’t learn to live with fire and learn how to work with what it is and what it does to help maintain all the things needed for survival, then basically you’re working against it, and if enough time goes by, it will work against you.”

Why does fire,…