Symposium stresses need for Indigenous perspectives in Northwest Forest Plan amendment

One point of emphasis for one of the speakers was how going forward fire management needs to change its year-round approach, especially outside of wildfire season.

"As wildfires come through, then we pick up the broken pieces,” says Ryan Reed, an Indigenous fire practitioner and wildland firefighter. “There is a lot of power that needs to be distributed into the proactive aspect. It's wintertime now, where work and strategy-making has to be done now."