The prescribed fire claims fund can cover losses in the rare event a prescribed or cultural burn escapes and causes damage.
As California grapples with increasingly destructive wildfires due in part to climate change, many experts insist that the state must fight fire with fire and expand the use of controlled burns to clear forests of excess fuel and restore ecosystem health.
“Good fire” can refer to prescribed burning — the practice of setting land alight under optimal conditions to reduce vegetation that could fuel a catastrophic wildfire — or cultural burning — the controlled application of fire to achieve cultural goals or objectives set by Indigenous practitioners. “We really need to restore fire as a process on our California landscape,” said Lenya Quinn-Davidson, director of the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Fire Network and a member of the working group that developed the pilot program.
The pilot, set to expire in 2028, will also enable the state to gather information about the rates of escape and damage, as well as the benefits of burns, he said. That may eventually alleviate the need for the program altogether. One stumbling block they had to overcome was that the legislation creating the program states that each project chief must submit a burn plan for review and approval by Cal Fire in order to qualify. But cultural practitioners often don’t use burn plans, and requiring them to do so would infringe on tribal sovereignty.
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