Welcome to my website!  To the right are links to my doctoral dissertation, a couple of peer-reviewed papers, other articles, K-12 curriculum, and videos. The page links to the left also lead to information about curriculum and about the North Fork Mono Tribe's meadow restoration program in the Sierra Nevada and how this restoration expresses land tenure: the Tribe's hold on, jurisdiction over, and relationship with the land.  Please be sure, too, to visit and comment on my blog at:

www.jareddahlaldern.net/blog.

Jared Dahl Aldern

This Land Is Their Land: A Future for Indigenous Fire in Southern California (2021)

Fire and Food Sovereignty (panel discussion with Frank Lake, Merv George, Jr., and Rondo Reed, 2020)

Bring Back the Good Fires (with Julie-Cordero Lamb and Teresa Romero, 2020 (revised from 2018)) 

Where There's Good Fire, There's Good Smoke (2020)

Indigenous Conservation Practices Are Not a Monolith: Western cultural biases and a lack of engagement with Indigenous experts undermine studies of land stewardship (co-authored with Kelsey Leonard and others, 2020)

Megafires Are Getting More Dangerous -- But We Can Better Prepare for Them (panel discussion with Theresa Gregor, Fernanda Santos, and Nathan Rott, 2020)

A Social History of Fire: Learning and Burning in the Southern Sierra (webinar presentation, 2020)

Good Fire on the Klamath (2020)

How Yurok and Karuk Traditions Sustain Delicate Balance of North Coast Species (2019)

Restoring Fire for Cultural and Ecological Benefits (co-authored with Pamela Flick, 2019) 

Bring Back the Good Fires (co-authored with Julie Cordero-Lamb and Teresa Romero, 2018)

Cultural Burning (KCET video, 2016)



Cultural Fire on the Mountain: An Introduction to Native Cultural Burning (2016) 

A Gift of Fire to the Land: Talking with Jared Dahl Aldern (KCET interview transcript, 2016)



California's Lost Grizzly (KCET video, 2015) 



From Los Vallecitos to Lost Valley: Transformation and resurrection in grizzly country (2014) 



The stories hold water: Learning and burning in North Fork Mono homeland (co-authored with Ron Goode, 2014)

 Telling Stories in the Face of Danger: Language Renewal in Native American Communities (book review, 2013)

 

Making Space for North Fork Mono (Nium) Narrative: Land, Learning, Parataxis, Policy, and Water in Central California (2013) 



Lessons of Our Land (California lessons co-developed with Ron Goode, 2010-13) 



Native Sustainment: The North Fork Mono Tribe's Stories, History, and Teaching of Its Land and Water Tenure in 1918 and 2009  (Ph.D. dissertation (2010), 2MB PDF)

Native American Traditions and Riparian Restoration: Ecological Field Experiments in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park (Eco-cultural restoration proposal, 2005)

Historical Ecology in a Land of Confused Relief: Using Science, History and Myth to Restore the Great Community in San Felipe Valley, California (M.A. Thesis (2002) ~10MB PDFs):

Part 1   Part 2  Part 3

Response to Morgan Robertson's "Borges and the Restorationist's Dilemma" (2001)