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In recent years, increasing emphasis has been placed on exploring more ways to incorporate controlled burning of fire prone landscapes in states like California and Oregon. In response to growing threats of fire in California, Jackie Fielder, an indigenous organizer and politician, proposed the creation of an indigenous wildfire task force as a part of her 2020 state senate campaign. (1)(6)(7?) The plan draws on ideas behind the Karuk tribe's work around cultural burning and climate adaptation, and would create a path for more cultural burning to take place. (3)(9) It aims to reduce the threat of wildfire, as well as return more oversight of land management to indigenous people. (3) Scott Wiener, Fielder's opponent and current California State Senator for District 11, has stated that he is interested in supporting a task force similar to the one which Fielder proposed. (2)(3)(5)