Press Packet - 2025 Klamath Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (KTREX)

Link to KTREX 2025 Press Release

Link to High Quality Photos and Video B-roll

Websites:

Western Klamath Restoration Partnership - KTREX 

Karuk Tribe Climate Change Projects

Reports:

Good Fire Reports & Video (2021 & 2024)

Written Testimony by Bill Tripp from the Intertribal Timber Council to the House Committee on Natural Resources (2023)

Videos:

Three Burns - The 2025 Butler Wildfire (2025)

Shifting the Fire Paradigm in Karuk Aboriginal Territory. Film on the 2023 Lightning Complex

Carrying the Torch: Klamath River TREX 2020

The Women They Are Carrying Fire - Pa'asik`tavaansas Kuniktáamvunatih. Film on the Karuk Indigenous Women’s TREX (2023)

Catching Fire: Prescribed Burning in Northern CA (ENTIRE FILM) (2013)

Youtube Playlist - KlamathMedia - Learn About Prescribed Fire in Northern CA

In the News:

Times Standard - $10 million secured for Karuk Tribe’s fire training center (2025)

The Lookout - Will Harling Speaks on Burning at the Landscape Scale (2025)

LA Times - California tribe enters first-of-its-kind agreement with the state to practice cultural burns (2025)

Boise Public Radio - In northern California, the Karuk Tribe is burning its way back to a centuries-old relationship with fire (2025)

High Country News - What if Indigenous women ran controlled burns? (2022)

The Siskiyou Daily News - Prescribed burns in Klamath region serve as model for U.S., around globe (2021)

Arizona Republic - 'Our right to fire': Tribes battle agencies, old policies to restore fire practices (2020)

AJ+ - This California Tribe Is Fighting Wildfires With Fire Video (2020)

NorthCoast Journal - Fighting Fire with Fire: A devastating wildfire season highlights the need for prescribed burns (2020)

National Geographic - An Indigenous practice may be key to preventing wildfires (2020)