Oct. 30, 2025 – Next week, SMU Anthropology’s Christopher I. Roos will host a Southwest Fire Science Consortium (SWFSC) Webinar, “Tree Rings Reveal the Legacy of Indigenous Cultural Burning in the Southwest USA.”
In the webinar, Dr. Christopher Roos and colleagues will explore how Indigenous peoples across the Southwest shaped fire regimes through diverse cultural practices and land uses. Using extensive tree-ring fire records, they demonstrate that Indigenous influence on fire was widespread and consistent across foraging, pastoral, and farming societies—offering new perspectives for research and restoring traditional fire stewardship and co-management today.
The event will be held at 12pm (MT) on November 5, 2025. You can register to attend on Zoom here.