This past summer, one of my friends worked for a UBC lab that did research on the effects of regenerative controlled burning (also known as prescribed burns), and at one point they did a presentation on their research to the local Indigenous groups. One of the women in the audience asked why they were spending immense time, money and energy on this research when the Indigenous people in the area had already been doing controlled burns since time immemorial and knew the positive effects it had.
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