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World Leaders representing 7 Billion now believe WE should “Listen to the Indigenous.” It is thanks to U.S. Ski Areas, Greta, Pope Francis, the U.N., Nobel and World scientists, Canada’s PM Trudeau, U.S. Secretary of AG Tom Vilsack, Australia’s Forest leader, and now King Charles who heads the 2.5 B British Commonwealth.   On his 2022 trip to Canada, the green King said, “We need to learn from the Indigenous how to better live in and care for nature and the planet.” The UN’s 192 countries agree, saying “The key to restoring Mother Earth is a combination of green tech and Ancient Indigenous wisdom, especially snowdances” that give Her the loving gratitude.

In 2021, world scientists proved that the lands managed by the Indigenous have the least fires thanks to their controlled burns and snow and raindances, and the UN praised Canada for uniquely meeting their climate goals.  Yet they found that the wildfires are heating B.C.  2-3X mores than fossil fuels. So “Trudeau shifted 6.5 million more (fire prone) Arctic acres to their Indigenous.

More Great HOPE came this March, when Secretary Vilsack “made a paradigm shift to Native American controlled burns,” thanks to Biden’s $50 B to Prevent Fires and Droughts.  And for the first time since California went up in flames in 2018, “the reduced wildfires on our West Coast during October’s fire season are under control.”   All these world leaders finally followed Greta and the World’s youth, who are now begging leaders to prioritize implement-ing these controlled burns, as well as snowdances, which are so critical this winter to inspire ideal deep snowpack in the mts to cool the planet, to end the droughts that cause the wildfires and the heated oceans that cause hurricanes like Florida’s.

CONTROLLED BURNS

Yet with an extreme U.S. and World shortage of firefighters from nonstop fires, Bjorn Dahl, US-Norwegian Ski and Forest leader said, “Right now everyone needs to know how to fireproof our homes, towns, forests, snowsports and Winter Olympics through these preventive burns. So instead of living in fear, fleeing, or worse, you’ll see how we can even have fun doing it like Indigenous families, while significantly cooling our planet.

U.S media has touched on these solutions, led by CNN’s host of the “United Shades of America” W. Kamau Bell, by brilliantly having Don Hakens, an environmental professor of N. Cal’s Miwok Tribe, coach the world how to do their cultural burns safely to also nurture the fauna.  Hakens said “Only do it on a windless stretch of days and from the higher ground down…  And since Mother Earth is in charge, fires can go wild, so ONLY with backup by experienced Forest Service and tribal workers.”  That’s even when guided by gifted “Fire Whisperers” who work with winds that call in the snow and rain clouds, like the dad of our Native American Olympic Team Foundation’s (NAOTF), chief advisor, Olivia Ellis PhD (Czech-Cherokee), “Grandmother Moccasin Trail.”

After the U.S., Canada, and Australia, like most governments, removed the Indigenous from their mountains, our Forest Service also suppressed fires, so the brush built up for 100 years and the lightning strikes ignited the West Coast and then our West and the world.  A trillion dollars and trees worldwide were wasted simply fighting wildfires, instead of preventing them.  Kamau mourned: “Instead of learning from our American Indians, we tried to wipe them out.”

In October’s fire season, for the first time since 2018, “the still many wildfires on the West Coast are under control,” so Secretary Vilsack has already saved $billions and millions of trees since shifting.

“Given the shortage of personnel from nonstop fires,” Bjorn Dahl, former director of Kirkwood ski area, Western Forestry and Congressional Hearings, urges the Forest Service and towns in hotspots to hire seasoned tribal firefighters to coach folks how to do these burns. Especially the safest form year-round, BIOCHAR, endorsed by the IPCC.

BIOCHAR 

We can even get a great workout by simply gathering brush around our homes, businesses, towns and forests, and burning it in pits or kilns from the top down with soil on top. Then by watering it down, it doesn’t turn to ash.  Instead, this creates Biochar, a black biorich soil additive to fertilizer to quickly regrow robust climate-proof trees and crops on 20% less water while absorbing CO2 and so much more.  A beautiful example of cross-cultural community teamwork, is the NW Lomaskatsi.org Foundation, co-founded by NAOTF board member, Robert “Bobcat” Brothers PhD. This Harvard-Berkeley-educated NW Forest savior also organizes snow ceremonies on Oregon’s Mt Ashland Ski Area since both forms of Native Forest management are critical.  See pics on https://lomakatsi.org/tribes/.

Social networks and schools are direly needed to quickly educate youth and families about these solutions.  Stanford partners with the Forest Service and CA’s Yurok Tribe on a cultural burn course at their rez.  Vilsack just brilliantly gave Biochar-US.org a $2 million grant to provide expert assistance – a shining model.  That’s possible Internationally thanks to BI.org, which also has helpful youtubes, so families can together significantly solve climage change.

Next to the U.S., Australia has the worst fires.  Like Canada and the U.S., Australia has started to restore their ancient cultural burns of the Aborigine that naturally include their spiritual practices.  There’s a 60,000-Year-Old Way to Help Stop Australia Burning – bloomberg… Together they’ve been so effective that a university honored two Aborigine leaders with PhDs.  One said “it will take an army to restore our forests.”  Great solution for the world’s Armed Forces to together reverse our “Greatest Threat to Humanity!”  See inspiring youtube: How Indigenous fire management practices could protect …Bushland.

Many Americans are naturally following the Indigenous in enjoying giving back to Nature.  Olivia called “Jemmy Bluestein and Friends” at Musick Creek near Fresno, “a model of gathering brush on weekends and then serenading Mother Earth and Her Nature spirits with love songs, which are prayers X 1000.”  Scouts, students, churches… could happily collect the brush for the Forest Service or tribes to make Biochar.  At the top of Vail Resorts’ Zero Carbon list should be ski areas giving lift tickets to collect brush, since this solution also cuts Heat and saves their snow.  I keep thinking about all those outdoor music festivals at ski areas like Telluride and Aspen where we sit on our butts and listen, when I’d prefer to be gathering brush with friends and then enjoying resting on my butt and listening, ending in a joyous Biochar Celebration knowing we are protecting all we hold dearly.  See Addenda for a shining Restoration model of a ski area and tribe happily partnering.

 SEC VILSACK: “I’M LOOKING FOR OTHER WAYS TO END DROUGHTS AND FIRES” 

Despite controlled burns starting to reduce these hell fires, their HEAT INERTIA is still forcing water cuts in the West, and people are suffering from food costs from shortages. Plus record heatwaves are melting hope for ski areas to stay in the snow business.  Since the blessed $370 Billion Climate part of the Inflation Reduction Act also needs time to kick in, aren’t these snow and raindances critical to save “one million trees from burning each day?” (Vilsack)  

Even more importantly, they are critical to protect all our nuclear plants with ideal moisture, while shifting to renewables.  Two raindances saved the Los Alamos Nuclear Lab.  In 2011, the winds and rains stopped the great SW fire across the street from the LAB and their ski area, why the scientists shared the skiing and joined NAOTF’s gratitude ceremony, led by Sec of Interior Deb Haaland’s late Laguna Pueblo Gov, Stan Lucero.

SNOW AND RAINDANCES?

Implementing snowdances in the U.S. and worldwide is critical this and all winter seasons since “Hydrologists say it will take years of deep snowpack in the mountains to end decades of Western droughts.” That’s why adopting the spiritual side of Indigenous Forest Manage-ment is also critical, their Snow and Raindances. Along with their Winter Round Dances and other ceremonies and prayers every day giving loving appreciation to Mother Earth, they have nourished and protected the U.S. and world forests from Droughts and major fires for eons, why they spectacularly flourished.

To be good stewards on Forest lands, and out of desperation, our ski areas wisely pioneered cross-cultural snowdances to help end their catastrophic snow droughts since saving the 1960 Olympics with 11 ft, (cover TIME), proven by 62 years of press and by world scientists. (available)  Said Bjorn, “If the ski areas had this snow and raindance data in 2004, I could have saved millions of trees from the massive Colorado fires, so NAOTF then collected it internationally” at the urging of the UN Sustainability officer, Marie Mercedes Sanchez.

Kamau ended with a plea, “If we don’t figure it out, this land will burn with you and me!”  There’s even more hope since Vilsack said he’s “looking for other ways to end droughts and fires.”   The AG Sec now has 7 billion Earthlings behind his including the snow/raindance part of Native forest management.

Just imagine how after the U.S. and world’s countries join the Canadians and Australians in adopting both Native practices, your shock and gratitude seeing we together inspired ideal snows and rains across America and the World’s mountain ranges reducing droughts and wildfires. Then our delight seeing our snow and forests growing back more and more each year!  Plus we feel wonderful streamlining cooling our suffering Earth Mother by giving thanks every time it rains and snows, since like most women, She is even more generous, ski towns learned, when given gratitude!

Since no one country can stop Climate change, here is easy simply way your countries can help make this Tribal Hail Mary ripple to make our 1.5C goals to win this HUMAN RACE!

Many of your governments are already giving Tax Credits to shifting to Renewables. So urge your leaders to “Give a Tax Credit to your) who would love to host their tribal youth for One Day of skiing or boarding to likely inspire their Elders to lead a snowdance or emergency raindance, and more credits for hosting a Native ski program like public schools. (See letter below you can send them with this story)

Many of our ski areas struggling (from Covid) call this plan “Fantastic”  In May, 15 million youth of “World Children’s Month” (led by Heidi Little, thanks to prophetic Chief Arvol Lookinghorse’s wife Paula), and our Native Olympic XC Hopeful Mariah Cooper (LaCourte Oreille-Oneida), begged Sec Vilsack to please fund this No 1 Drought Solutions. Since then Mariah became a MD motivated, by our Native ski programs and teaching 600 Arctic youth to XC ski to stay clean and lean so they can reach for the sky too.

We urged another credit for hosting Native-led Eco Hikes YEAR ROUND with a gratitude prayer to Mother Earth, as Aspen SkiCo wanted.”   After seeing “China’s Olympics had no natural snow,” they also urged Vilsack to give emergency tax credits so ski areas can afford to shift to Renewables and finally become like 100% green-powered Aspen SkiCo.

Aspen and Tahoe had to be evacuated twice, because bolder solutions like these Native ones were needed.  While snowmaking machines helped douse Tahoe blaze, as well as Sun Valley’s 2014 record one, overreliance is taxing community water sources.  At our 2022 SV Hall of Fame event with the International Skiing History Assoc (ISHA), only ski runs with snowguns were open and wells were going dry, so our 5 snow ceremonies, led by Olivia with ski exec Mark Thoreson and locals, helped inspire a Snowdog and “5ft of snow.”  At our Steamboat and Stowe HOF events, ski execs and icons Barbara Alley (Cherokee) and Billy Kidd (Abenaki) also helped transform their depressing weeklong rain forecasts to powder.

Therefore, these Tax Credits are critical to help inspire enough snowpack long term for generations in the U.S. and globally since most storms for their regions come from the mts, which need to be as pristine as possible to inspire naturally abundant snow.

This Tax Credit solution finally fulfills the vision of our partner Dr Stephen Schneider, Aspen SkiCo-Stanford’s 2007 Nobel Prize winner (shared with his IPCC Team).   Along with NSAA’s Michael Berry, “he urged ALL ski areas globally to share skiing with their tribes since it in-spires the snowdances, and it would be foolish to ignore since it costs almost nothing.”  Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Stephen Schneider Hails Tribal Snow …

Thanks to foreigners loving our American Indians, and 50 million BBC Radio and 250,000 GOP podcast listeners, many skiers, love this snow/raindance solution.  Please share this with your press, like we gave ISHA’s Rick Moulton this for the world’s top ski writers so they can help fireproof their countries so Skiing isn’t just History.   Especially since so few Americans, including skiers, even know about Vilsack’s “Hail Mary” shift to controlled burns and Biochar, or how to safely protect their homes, ski towns, forests, snow and Olympics.

Cross Country ski areas, which are endangered most, would also get Tax Credits so they can be like Wisconsin’s Birkiebeiner, where the Norwegians praised us and wanted to collaborate, and Washington’s Methow Trails, the longest in N. America.  Both uniquely had snowblessing thanks to sharing the skiing with the tribes, which inspired their snowdances.

Four Tahoe ski areas found that when they simply invited the Washoe youth to ski in 2020,  they were immediately blessed with critically needed snow mid season.  So by Vilscak and other world leaders announcing the Tax Credits NOW so Ski areas and XC resorts across America can invite their tribes this winter, could inspire Mother Earth to immediately send ideal needed rain and snowblessings across our mt chains during this most dangerous fire and snow season of all.

This also finally fulfills the Ski Industry’s Diversity goal to also include Native youth, thru Vilsack finally making amends on behalf of the government for stealing their lands. I am proud our ski areas pioneered this healing of America, which JFK called our National Wound.

Special thanks to my friend Stan Rumbough for helping make this possible of late to also pro-tect his beloved Vail, which pioneered Colorado’s Ute Snowdances so they could open in 1962 (CBS Huntley-Brinkley Report). Thanks to sharing the skiing, the Utes also helped end their “2012 Catastrophic Western Drought” in the Rockies, then Park City (cover Wash Post) and Washoe-Paiutes in Tahoe (AP).  Vail’s COO told WSJ covering theirs that “Each snowdance is worth a $million to our resort.”

NATIVE AMERICAN “MEDALS OF FREEDOM”

That’s all why the U.S. listening to 7 Billion Earthlings and following Canada and Australia in adopting both practical and spiritual Native forest management solutions, may be our best chance for this to ripple because of U.S. influence and media, to stop Extinction.

We salute Australia for just honoring their Aborigines with PhDs for their cultural burns.  Also following President Bush Jr honoring our Navajo Codetalkers in 2001 with “Medals of Freedom” for being key to winning WWll, President Biden and Vilsack should also honor our Native leaders with that highest medal for helping save America’s magnificent forests for Millennia, and now restoring them.  They are lighting the way to solving the World’s Greatest Threat, Climate.  The press will help raise awareness how all countries can afford to quickly   help our forests, oceans and futures, our Eden, happily flourish again.

To save ourselves, you can spread the word and copying and send this note, like below, to Sec Vilsack or your Heads of State, ideally with a piece of your heart and mind at: AgSec@USDA.

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Dear Sec Vilsack or President/Forest leader of your country.

Along with leaders of 7 billion others, we applaud you (or urge you) for making a paradigm shift to Indigenous Controlled burns to Prevent Fires.  Since hydrologists say “it will take years of deep mt snowpack to end decades of Western drought,” I/we beg you and thank you in advance for: “Giving Tax Credits to America’a (or our), struggling ski areas for inviting our Native youth to happily ski and snowboard to likely inspire Elders-led snowdances or emergency raindances.

Plus ideally give another emergency credit for hosting Native-led Eco Hikes YEAR ROUND.  Since they’ll naturally include a gratitude prayer to Mother Earth, they’d help inspire on going ideal snow across our Mountain chains, the key to ending droughts say hydrologist.

After seeing “China’s Olympics had no natural snow,” we also urge you to give tax credits so our ski areas can also afford to shift to Renewables and finally become like 100% green-powered Aspen SkiCo.  Mountains need to be as cooly pristine as possible to inspire naturally abundant snow.  Then our snow and snowsports and all we hold dearly, are not just history!

Together these solutions can most quickly restore our magnificent forests, like 95% Renewable-powered equal Norway did, and STOP EXTINCTION so our children can joyfully ski, swim, dance, and hike into the next century.

Signed ____________

ADDENDA –  TWO SHINING FOREST RESTORATION MODELS

Sierra-at-Tahoe Ski Area is a brilliant restoration model.  Said Heavenly Valley ski area’s former VP Andrew Strain, who founded our Washoe-Paiute Ski program, “We’re enjoying steady rains (likely also) thanks likely to their partnering with the Tribe on the Eldorado National Forest, to clear thousands of standing dead trees from the devastating Caldor Fire.  They together also built a sawmill to process them, so lots of jobs, funding, and Biochar to speed up reforesting with 20% less water.” New sawmill to start processing Caldor Fire salvage logs from Sierra-at-Tahoe

Another super model is California’s Musick Creek.  After friends clear their brush and turn it over to the engineers of Sierra Resource Conservation District.  While they sing (healing) love songs to Nature the SRCD team captures 98% of the carbon from the slash, burns it without oxygen and create Biochar and electricity.  They also clear and mill the dead trees with simply an off-the-shelf pyrolizer-generator unit,” to round out regenerating their beloved forests. See Great pics: https://www. face book. com/108953487684887/ posts/pfbid0VF9svuxT51bjvFfUo12 Gqqp6HFs8M1arxqX vVVsDS9 FRk7LCV6uDnarh1b68AQBil/?d=n