In this June 2022 episode of the Ologies podcast, host Alie Ward revisits two previous episodes where she talked to experts about fire ecology and Indigenous fire management.

In the West, fire has traditionally been associated with danger, destruction, and hell.

As wildfires across the Northern Hemisphere are intensified by climate change, burning is now also understood as an environmental disaster.

In many cultures, however, fire has been used in rituals of cleansing, cultural burning, and land stewardship for centuries.

In an effort to better understand the implications fire has for our ecosystems, Ologies host Alie Ward revisits two episodes on fire ecology from August 10 and 17, 2021.

In this mega-episode, Ward talks to American fire ecologist Dr. Gavin Jones and Canadian Métis social scientist Amy Christianson about the role of fire in nature and society.