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Proposed Fire Suppression Policy Response
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 tribeś work around cultural burning and climate adaptation, and would create a path for more cultural burning to take place. (3)(9)  Bill Tripp, working directly with policy for the Karuk tribe, has noted more education and growing awareness of indigenous practices can lead to immediate solutions to modern-day fire suppression. (6)  The Karuk tribe have been a leader in restoring and expanding cultural burning in the American West, carrying out cultural burns in order to reduce wildfire risk and promote the growth of culturally important flaura.(9)(4) Fielders proposal  aims to reduce the threat of wildfire, as well as return more oversight of land management to indigenous people. It also has the potential to provide more job opportunities to indigenous and rural Californians. (3)

Fielder's campaign gained traction at least in part due to bold proposals like this. (8) Scott Wiener, Fielder's opponent and current California State Senator for District 11, has stated that he is interested in supporting atask force similar to the one which Fielder proposed. (2)(3)(5).This would represent a divergence from the incumbent's past approach, as Wiener's approach to wildfire management in the past has largely focused on shifting new construction away from the wildland urban interface.(8)