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急剧增加，给人类、生态系统和景观带来了许多挑战和意想不到的影响。解决这些挑战需要一种不同的恢复方法，以土著消防管理为中心，通过跨文化合作和跨学科研究推进火灾科学，并扩大火灾科学和火灾管理人员的参与。Karuk部落位于加利福尼亚西北部的克拉马斯河沿岸，拥有用火管理该地区生态系统的悠久历史，是在国际范围内推进规定火灾和火灾管理方面公认的领导者。虽然在加强部落主权和参与火灾管理方面取得了进展，但仍需进一步努力将知识系统互联起来，以促进公平的解决方案。该规划项目将协调一系列活动，重点是连接土著和西方知识系统，建立互惠的交流关系，并为数据和知识的使用制定土著协议，以制定有效的解决方案，以改变野火制度。该项目的一个主要成果将是征求对Karuk部落与火灾有关的高优先研究、监测和教育需求的投入，并组建一个研究人员和实践者小组，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。这一创新规划项目将协调一系列合作讲习班和工作组会议，重点是在Karuk祖传领土内将与火灾科学和管理有关的土著和西方知识系统相互联系起来。作为这些努力的一部分，研究人员计划推进与火灾应用相关的四个核心领域：1)跨学科和跨文化研究；2)与管理人员和从业者共同生产知识；3)代际学习；4)恢复监测和研究。研究人员计划通过利用Karuk部落、加州州立理工大学、洪堡和其他组织之间现有合作伙伴关系的成功来实现这些目标，提供一个包括文化、背景和学科的环境，并以尊重部落主权和领导的方式支持部落指导的努力。该项目的具体成果将是：1)制定和完善学术界和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、管理和教育重点，推进部落主权和领导；3)促进跨文化和跨学科合作，应对野火相关挑战；4)制定行动计划，制定能够接受NSF项目指令的创新和跨学科建议。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.