FOR THE SECOND YEAR, Cal Fire is opening a call for Tribal Wildfire Resilience Grants.

Awards between $250,000 and $3 million will be granted to federally recognized tribes or tribal nonprofits within the state of California. The grants will go to support the curation of traditional ecological knowledge about native forest management and its dissemination through education programs and tribal stewardship plans, as well as fuel reduction projects through cultural burns on ancestral lands.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.