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Left: A sprig of evergreen huckleberry rests atop a Yurok traditional winnowing tray alongside baskets of woven confer roots, maidenhair ferns and beargrass. All of these traditional materials are managed to their ideal harvest state through indigenous fire.
Right: Dr. Frank Lake cracks and extracts a beaked hazelnut from its shell. The hazelnuts grow on his property in Orleans, CA, where they are carefully managed through traditional Yurok prescribed burning.