Think of TEK as a combination of the very old and the very new.
It's an acronym for Traditional Ecological Knowledge, like the knowledge of land management gained by indigenous people over thousands of years. TEK practices are still very much valid today, including in fire management.
Margo Robbins is a member of theCultural Fire Management Council of the Yurok Tribe, and she joins other fire managers at this week's Klamath Fire Ecology Symposium. Will Harling joins the conversation; he's from the Middle Klamath Watershed Council.