The Crown Managers Partnership Fire in the Crown of the Continent forum was held virtually from March 22nd to March 26th, 2021. A huge thank you to the fantastic speakers, moderators, poster presenters, and attendees for a compelling and fun forum! Be sure to check out our forum summary report, which highlights major takeaways for each speaker and all of our breakout discussions:

Explore past fires with our interactive historical map of Fire in the Crown!

Each day of the forum will feature a new fire related topic:
March 22nd, 8:30am - 12:10pm: Fire Past and Future: Fact, Fiction, and Uncertainty
March 23rd, 8:30am - 12:30pm: Traditional Knowledge and Active Fire Use in the Crown

• Additional Resources about Tribal Relationships with Fire in the Crown, courtesy of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and the CSKT Salish-Kalispel Culture Committee

  • “When early non-Indian visitors reported the great bounty and pristine quality of the region’s natural resources, few had any idea that they were observing a landscape that was not only the gift of the Creator, but which had also been shaped and nurtured for millennia by tribal people and tribal ways of life.

  • For cultural information on the tribal relationship with fire and a series of forty historical essays on the tribal use of fire and its repression over the past two centuries, and extensive scientific material on the ecology of fire, see the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ website, Fire on the Land: Native Peoples and Fire in the Northern Rockies (originally published as an award-winning interactive DVD (Lincoln: distributed by the University of Nebraska Press, 2007, hereinafter Fire on the Land), http://fwrconline.csktnrd.org/Fire/index.html, accessed 2021-05-17.

  • For the 2021 Montana Forest Action Plan, the SQCC condensed those forty essays into a single essay on “Indigenous Peoples and Forests” for the 2021 Montana Forest Action Plan. See pp. 6-13 of "Montana Statewide Assessment of Forest Conditions," https://www.montanaforestactionplan.org/pages/assessment, accessed 2021-05-17.”

  • Lastly, a series of fire history essays can be accessed here: http://fwrconline.csktnrd.org/Fire/FireOnTheLand/History/

  March 24th, 8:30am - 12:00pm: Fire in the Human Environment
  March 25th, 8:30am - 11:45am: Fire Management in Practice: Obstacles, Implementation and Successes
  March 26th, 8:30am -12:30pm: Fire in Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems

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Explore Shared Links

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Presenters

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