FIGHTING WILDFIRES WITH FIRE On the morning of Sept. 8, residents of Happy Camp, Calif., on the traditional lands of the Karuk tribe near the Oregon border, woke up to see flames on a ridge above them. Within hours the fire had raced down the slope, engulfing 150 homes and killing two people. “It was chaos,” said Bill Tripp, the Karuks’ director of natural resources. “People were evacuating thro..
