Planning: FIRE-PLAN: Interconnecting knowledge systems to advance the science and application of fire in ways that respect Tribal Sovereignty

近几十年来，美国西部大部分地区经历了野火活动的突然增加，给人类、生态系统和景观带来了许多挑战和不良影响。解决这些挑战需要一种不同的恢复性方法，以土著消防管理为中心，通过跨文化合作和跨学科研究促进消防科学，并扩大消防科学和消防管理劳动力的参与。Karuk部落位于加利福尼亚州西北部克拉马斯河沿岸，拥有用火管理该地区生态系统的悠久历史，是公认的在国际范围内推进规定火灾和火灾管理的领导者。虽然在加强部落主权和参与消防管理方面取得了长足进展，但仍在进一步努力实现知识系统之间的相互联系，以促进公平的解决办法。这一规划项目将协调一系列活动，重点是将土著和西方知识系统相互连接起来，以建立相互交流的关系，并将土著数据和知识使用协议作为中心，以制定有效的解决方案，以应对改变的野火制度。该项目的主要成果将是就Karuk部落与火灾有关的高度优先的研究、监测和教育需求征求意见，并召集一组研究人员和从业人员，为未来的发展制定切实的、创新的、以社区为基础的项目想法。这一创新的规划项目将协调一系列协作讲习班和工作组会议，重点是将Karuk祖传领土内与火灾科学和管理有关的土著和西方知识系统相互联系。作为这些努力的一部分，调查人员计划推进与FIRE应用有关的四个核心领域：1)跨学科和跨文化研究，2)与管理人员和从业人员共同创造知识，3)代际学习，以及4)修复监测和研究。研究人员计划通过利用卡鲁克部落、加州州立理工大学、洪堡大学和其他组织之间现有伙伴关系的成功来实现这些目标，以提供一个包容文化、背景和学科的环境，并以尊重部落主权和领导权的方式支持部落领导的努力。该项目的具体成果将是：1)制定和完善学者和Karuk部落之间的合作协议、政策和协议；2)通过确定以部落为中心的研究、管理和教育优先事项，促进部落主权和领导力；3)促进跨文化和跨学科合作，以应对与野火相关的挑战；以及4)制定行动计划，以制定能够接受NSF计划指令的创新和跨学科建议。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Over the recent decades, much of the western U.S. has experienced abrupt increases in wildfire activity, posing numerous challenges and undesired impacts to humans, ecosystems, and landscapes. Resolving these challenges requires a different restorative approach that centers Indigenous fire stewardship, advances fire science through cross-cultural collaborations and interdisciplinary research, and expands participation within the fire science and fire management workforce. The Karuk Tribe, located along the Klamath River of northwestern California, holds a long history of stewarding the region’s ecosystems with fire and are well recognized leaders in the advancement of prescribed fire and fire management on an international scale. While strides have been made to enhance Tribal Sovereignty and engagement with fire management, further work toward interconnecting knowledge systems to promote equitable solutions remains. This planning project will coordinate a series of events focused on interconnecting Indigenous and Western knowledge systems to create reciprocal relationships of exchange and center Native protocol for data and knowledge use to develop effective solutions to altered wildfire regimes. A primary outcome of the project will be to solicit input on high priority fire-related research, monitoring, and educational needs of the Karuk Tribe and to assemble a team of researchers and practitioners to develop tangible, innovative, community-based project ideas for future development.This innovative planning project will coordinate a series of collaborative workshops and working group meetings focused on interconnecting Indigenous and Western knowledge systems related to fire science and management within the Karuk Ancestral Territory. As part of these efforts, the investigators plan to advance four core areas related to the application of fire: 1) interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research, 2) co-production of knowledge with managers and practitioners, 3) intergenerational learning, and 4) restoration monitoring and research. The researchers plan to address these objectives by leveraging the success of existing partnerships between the Karuk Tribe, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, and other organizations, to provide a setting that is inclusive of cultures, backgrounds, and disciplines and supports tribally directed efforts in such a way that respects Tribal Sovereignty and leadership. Specific outcomes of this project will be to: 1) develop and refine protocols, policies, and agreements of collaboration among academics and the Karuk Tribe; 2) advance tribal sovereignty and leadership through identifying tribally centered research, management, and educational priorities; 3) foster cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaborations to address wildfire related challenges; and 4) developing action plans to craft innovative and interdisciplinary proposals that are receptive to NSF program directives.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.