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>> Veterans Day is November

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11th. In Environmental news,
a culturally and

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ecologically important
controlled burn happened in

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superior this week.
Wisconsin Point along Lake

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Superior was the site of
what is known as a cultural

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prescribed burn. The fire
removed invasive species

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and added nutrients to the
soil to nurture native

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plants. The restoration
effort was a partnership

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with the fond du Lac Band
of Lake Superior Chippewa.

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The point was settled by
the Ojibwe and site of

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burial grounds, but the
community was forced from

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the land in the early 1900s
and the cemetery desecrated

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to make way for harbor
expansion. The tribe

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regained the land from the
city of superior in 2022,

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which called the prescribed
burn part of a broader

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healing process of honoring
the land and those who came

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before. For the Ojibwe,
such burns are a sacred

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connection to the health of
the land.

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>> This Great Lakes area.
All the plants here are

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fire dependent. They depend
on fire to keep growing.

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There's a lot of states
that are turning to the

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indigenous tribes in the
use of fire to promote what

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their traditions were of,
you know, using fires to

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shape their environment, to
slow down the spread of

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large, you know, large,
uncontained fires. But

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there's something we
learned traditionally was

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fire. You know, the
cleansing, it helped heal