Frank Kanawha Lake, Ph.D., is a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service. He’s been learning and teaching the role of fire in managing ecosystems in the northwest U.S. for more than three decades, and has introduced indigenous fire prevention and management practices to the Forest Service. He was mentored by botanist and best-selling author, Robin Wall Kimmerer.  

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Resources

• Meet Frank Kanawha Lake (US Forest Service)
• Sacred Pollinators: An Interview with Frank K. Lake (California Native Plant Society)
• From Supercomputers to Fire-Starting Drones, These Tools Help Fight Wildfires (Smithsonian Magazine)
• In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things, by Bill McKibben (The New Yorker)

Credits

Yesh Pavlik Slenk is Degrees’ host. Amy Morse is our producer. Podcast Allies is our production company. Tressa Versteeg is senior producer; audio engineers Rye Taylor and Matthew Simonson worked on this episode. Elaine Grant is supervising producer and CEO of Podcast Allies and Tina Bassir is project manager. Our music is Shame, Shame, Shame from Yesh’s favorite band, Lake Street Dive. Degrees: Real talk about planet-saving careers is presented by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). 

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