October 16, 2021

Jane Braxton Little

Jane Braxton Little is a freelance writer focused on science and the environment whose work has appeared in Scientific American, Discover, and National Geographic.

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The Fix

When the Levee Breaks: A New Approach to Managing Rivers

Hamilton City leads California in a new approach to managing rivers.

As a summer intern on the Six Rivers Forest, Jonathan White, a student at Salish-Kootenai College in Montana, helped to monitor how plants return to this area, burned in 2016 as a Forest Service and Karuk Tribe research plot.
Environment

The California Indigenous Peoples Using Fire for Agroforestry

Prescribed burning is the main tool in the Karuk and Yoruk tribes' agroforestry systems, which encourages proliferation of traditional foods, herbs, and medicines.