Cultural Fire Presentation in Port Orford | May 16, 2026

Introduction to Cultural Fire, with Frank Kanawha Lake and Glenn Jones:

Join us in Port Orford on the evening of May 16th to learn from two renowned cultural fire practitioners. We’re so grateful they are able to come and share from their wealth of experiences, research, and traditional ecological knowledge.

Frank Lake, a Karuk descendant with Yurok family, is a leader in cultural fire in northern California - and more broadly in research of indigenous fire stewardship practices. He's coming to share ways to approach burning from cultural perspectives based on the teachings of tribes in the southern Pacific Northwest/Northwestern California.

Glenn Jones is an enrolled member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe of rural Northern California and an active cultural fire practitioner. He is a master's student at Oregon State University, working to reconstruct historical cultural fire regimes in order to better understand forest conditions of the people's ancenstral past through indigenous knowledge.