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An Addendum from Josh, "When recognizing the climate benefits of indigenous land management, we need to stress that a purely technical approach, which seeks to identify knowledge and incorporate it into existing management regimes, is simultaneously inadequate, amoral, and probably counterproductive. As we stressed during the interview, climate change is a political question which presents problems of distribution that run deeper than its problems of budgeting. In places like California, indigenous land management regimes ended due to enslavement, removal, and genocide of the state's native peoples, and modern land management practices have long depended on ignoring that fact, and the experiences of people who live on the land in general. Durably solving climate change is not just about assembling new tools; it requires rebuilding social and political systems to avoid new iterations of extractivism. In the case of cultural land management practices, that means restoring indigenous communities' role in shaping and caring for the land."

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Plus a few more readings:

Mark David Spence: Dispossessing the Wilderness

Richard White: The Organic Machine

Jared Dahl Aldern: Where There's Good Fire, There's Good Smoke (http://https//baynature.org/2020/09/30/where-theres-good-fire-theres-good-smoke/); Indigenous Conservation Practices are not a Monolith (https://ecoevorxiv.org/jmvqy/)

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