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Patch
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Criteria
- Attend weekend intro
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Badge 1
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Criteria
- Multiple weekends
- Homework
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Badge 2
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Criteria
- Business
- Consultations
- Referral network
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Rank
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Criteria
- Blessing to start a Fire Mimicry business
- 2 or more weekends
- Complete Internship
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Total curriculum
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Basic understanding
- There are principles relevant to all forests
- There are principles that are specific to oak forests
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Spiritual significance
- What is sacred to you?
- Soul Centered Agency?
- Guided meditation
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Cultural Context
- TEK
- Indigineous History
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Role/functions of Oak trees
- Acorns
- Fuel
- Tools
- Mushrooms
- Shade
- Medicinal uses
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Culturally modified trees
- How to identify
- Ancestor trees
- Contemporary
- Ecologically
- Management with fire
- Types of fire
- Complexity of regimes
- Dependant upon desired outcome
- Different times of year
- Day or night
- Shell middens
- Definition
- Effects on trees
- Terraces
- Remnants of agriculture
- Overlap with swales -Permaculture
- Fire Suppression
- Negative effects
- Buildup of understory/young tree competition
- Moss lichen buildup
- Story
- Form of racism
- Private property
- Ecological Context (aid participants in awareness of their surroundings, their place in time)
- Recognition of multiple ecosystems
- What type of ecosystem is this?
- What types of trees, life exist here?
- What is the name of this watershed?
- Where is this ecosystem in its succession of evolution?
- Safety
- Chain saw
- Proper safety gear
- Ears
- Proper operation
- Poison oak
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Other
- Masks
- Theory
- What is the scientific name of sudden oak death?
- What are the 5 elements of fire mimicry?
- Thinning
- Moss remove
- Soil fertilization
- Limewash
- Surgeries
- List 5 ecosystem functions that fire serves in the oak forest ecosystem.
- Demonstrate understanding of how fire serves the ecology.
- Principles
- Written Test/worksheet – (derive from rest of this doc)
- Articulate understanding of moss/lichen cycle and why that can be challenging for oaks.
- Articulate understanding of why there is excess brush in landscape and how to manage
- Skillflexes – Action demonstration
- Removing and reusing woody understory
- Remove excess moss and lichen
- Soil fertilization
- Compost tea
- Mineral nutrients
- Trunk poultice
- Tree Surgeries
- Photodocumentation
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