This past March, fire practitioners, knowledge holders, and leaders gathered for a Fire Conference, which included hands-on training, knowledge sharing and deep exchange on cultural burning. From Canada, the U.S., Australia and beyond, participants came together with one shared commitment: return good fire to the land.

From the conference room to the land, the message was clear: cultural fire is not destruction. It’s restoration. It’s resilience. It’s renewal. Through pitch stick ignitions, landscape assessments, and conversations grounded in Indigenous laws and science, Guardians and fire stewards are working to revitalize these important practices.

As Dr. Amy Cardinal Christianson shared: “What we want to see is good fire moving through the landscape—keeping soils healthy, promoting plants we need culturally, and reconnecting with how our people have always managed fire.”