Cultural Burning Practices in California

Join Richard Bugbee to learn about the significance of Indigenous Cultural Burning Practices in California. Mr. Bugbee will describe the landscape and practices of cultural burns and describe his work using his Ethnobotanical and Ethnoecological knowledge to reintroduce Cultural Burns and other traditional practices to land management agencies to teach them how to steward the land.  

Richard Bugbee is Payoomkawish (Juaneño/Luiseño) from northern San Diego County. He has ties with the Kumeyaay, Mununjali Yogumbeh, and Te Ahwina. Richard grew up near the Kumeyaay village site of Kosa’aay, now known as Old Town San Diego CA. Not only is he an Instructor of Kumeyaay Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology at Cuyamaca College through Kumeyaay Community College, he is also the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival (AICLS), on the boards of Indigenous Regeneration (Mata’Yuum), Climate Science Alliance, and Inter-Tribal Fire Stewardship. Richard has been…