Earlier this month, a federal advisor committee met in Portland to come up with recommendations for updates to the Northwest Forest Plan, a blueprint that will guide forest management in the region through the next century. Ryan Reed, the 23-year-old representative on the committee who is also an Indigenous firefighter, talked with Beat Check about why we all should care about trees, how fire can be used to manage them and why Indigenous cultural burning practices could guide the approach.

Read more about cultural burns and prescribed fire on The Oregonian/OregonLive:

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