Frank K. Lake, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Megan Mucioki, Michelle Baumflek, Suzanne Greenlaw, Helen Aderman, Kathy McCovey, Frank K. Lake, Davin Holen, Jennifer Sowerwine, Daniel Sarna‐Wojcicki, Bronwen Powell. 2026. Centering care as part of Indigenous environmental stewardship: Collective learning through cultural plants
• Jessie Thoreson, Kathy McCovey, Colleen Rossier, Frank K. Lake, Reem Hajjar, Chook‐Chook Hillman, Arielle Halpern, Bill Tripp, Meg Krawchuk. 2024. Monitoring of black oak (xánthiip) to center indigenous ecocultural revitalization
• Frank K. Lake, J. Long, B. Twieg, J. Hostler. 2024. Tribal stewardship for resilient forest socio-ecosystems
• Frank K. Lake, Megan Mucioki, Alexii Sigona, Paula Sternberg-Rodriguez. 2024. Introduction: Native plants and climate change, Indigenous perspectives part II
• Megan Mucioki, Lisa Morehead-Hillman, Kathy McCovey, Daniel Sarna-Wojcicki, Frank K. Lake, Vikki Preston, Shawn Bourque, Bill Tripp, Leaf G. Hillman, Jennifer Sowerwine. 2024. Caring for culturally significant plants in the midst of record setting droughts
• Jonathan James Fisk, Kirsten Mya Leong, Richard E. W. Berl, Jonathan W. Long, Adam C. Landon, Melinda M. Adams, Don L. Hankins, Christopher K. Williams, Frank K. Lake, Jonathan Salerno. 2024. Evolving wildlife management cultures of governance through Indigenous Knowledges and perspectives
• M.V. Eitzel, Daniel Sarna-Wojcicki, Sean Hogan, Jennifer Sowerwine, Megan Mucioki, Kathy McCovey, Shawn Bourque, Leaf Hillman, Lisa Morehead-Hillman, Vikki Preston, Chook-Chook Hillman, Andy Lyons, Bill Tripp, Frank K. Lake. 2024. Using mixed-method analytical historical ecology to map land use and land cover change for ecocultural restoration in the Klamath River Basin (Northern California)
• Skye M. Greenler, Frank K. Lake, William Tripp, Kathy McCovey, Analisa Tripp, Leaf G. Hillman, Christopher J. Dunn, Susan J. Prichard, Paul F. Hessburg, Will Harling, John D. Bailey. 2024. Blending I ndigenous and western science: Quantifying cultural burning impacts in K aruk A boriginal T erritory
• Jennifer Sowerwine, Megan Mucioki, Daniel Sarna-Wojcicki, Kathy McCovey, Lisa Morehead-Hillman, Leaf Hillman, Frank K. Lake, Vikki Preston, Shawn Bourque. 2023. Enhancing Indigenous Food Sovereignty and Community Health Through the Karuk Agroecosystem Resilience Initiative: We Are Caring for It: xúus nu’éethti
• Linda L. Long, Frank K. Lake, Jaime L. Stephens, John D. Alexander, C. John Ralph, Jared Wolfe. 2023. Using culturally significant birds to guide the timing of prescribed fires in the Klamath Siskiyou Bioregion
• Michelle Steen-Adams, Frank K. Lake, Chas E. Jones, Linda E. Kruger. 2023. Partnering in research about land management with tribal nations— insights from the Pacific West
• Arielle A. Halpern, Wayne P. Sousa, Frank K. Lake, Thomas J. Carlson, Will Paddock. 2022. Prescribed fire reduces insect infestation in Karuk and Yurok acorn resource systems
• Clarke A. Knight, Lysanna Anderson, M. Jane Bunting, Marie Champagne, Rosie M. Clayburn, Jeffrey N. Crawford, Anna Klimaszewski-Patterson, Eric E. Knapp, Frank K. Lake, Scott A. Mensing, David Wahl, James Wanket, Alex Watts-Tobin, Matthew D. Potts, John J. Battles. 2022. Land management explains major trends in forest structure and composition over the last millennium in California’s Klamath Mountains
• Paul F. Hessburg, Susan J. Prichard, R. Keala Hagmann, Nicholas Povak, Frank K. Lake. 2021. Wildfire and climate change adaptation of western North American forests: a case for intentional management
• Megan Mucioki, Jennifer Sowerwine, Daniel Sarna-Wojcicki, Frank K. Lake, Shawn Bourque. 2021. Conceptualizing Indigenous Cultural Ecosystem Services (ICES) and benefits under changing climate conditions in the Klamath River Basin and their implications for land management and governance
• Jonathan W. Long, Frank K. Lake, Ron W. Goode. 2021. The importance of Indigenous cultural burning in forested regions of the Pacific West, USA
• Susan J. Prichard, Paul F. Hessburg, R. Keala Hagmann, Nicholas Povak, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Matthew D. Hurteau, Van R. Kane, Robert E. Keane, Leda N. Kobziar, Crystal A. Kolden, Malcolm P. North, Sean A. Parks, Hugh D. Safford, Jens Stevens, Larissa L. Yocom, Derek J. Churchill, Robert W. Gray, David W. Huffman, Frank K. Lake, Pratima Khatri‐Chhetri. 2021. Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions
• Frank K. Lake. 2021. Indigenous fire stewardship: Federal/Tribal partnerships for wildland fire research and management
• Tony Marks-Block, Frank K. Lake, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Lisa M. Curran. 2021. Revitalized Karuk and Yurok cultural burning to enhance California hazelnut for basketweaving in northwestern California, USA
• G. M. Hart‐Fredeluces, Tamara Ticktin, Frank K. Lake. 2021. Simulated Indigenous fire stewardship increases the population growth rate of an understorey herb
• Luke T. Kelly, Katherine M. Giljohann, Andrea Duane, Núria Aquilué, Sally Archibald, Enric Batllori, Andrew F. Bennett, Stephen T. Buckland, Quim Canelles, Michael F. Clarke, Marie-Josée Fortin, Virgilio Hermoso, Sergi Herrando, Robert E. Keane, Frank K. Lake, Michael A. McCarthy, Alejandra Morán-Ordóñez, Catherine L. Parr, Juli G. Pausas, Trent D. Penman, Adrián Regos, Libby Rumpff, Julianna L. Santos, Annabel L. Smith, Alexandra D. Syphard, Morgan W. Tingley, Lluís Brotons. 2020. Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene
• Jonathan W. Long, Ron W. Goode, Frank K. Lake. 2020. Recentering ecological restoration with tribal perspectives
• Jonathan W. Long, Frank K. Lake, Ron W. Goode, Benrita Mae. Burnette. 2020. How traditional tribal perspectives influence ecosystem restoration
• Stephanie Mansourian, John A. Parrotta, Poorna Balaji, Imogen Bellwood‐Howard, Suhas Bhasme, R. Patrick Bixler, Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono, Rachel Carmenta, Theresa Jedd, Wil Jong, Frank K. Lake, Agnieszka Latawiec, Melvin Lippe, Nitin D. Rai, Jeffrey Sayer, Kristina Van Dexter, Bhaskar Vira, Ingrid Visseren‐Hamakers, Carina Wyborn, Anastasia Yang. 2020. Putting the pieces together: Integration for forest landscape restoration implementation
• Jennifer Sowerwine, Daniel Sarna-Wojcicki, Megan Mucioki, Lisa Hillman, Frank K. Lake, Edith Friedman. 2019. Enhancing food sovereignty: A five-year collaborative tribal-university research and extension project in California and Oregon
• Frank K. Lake, Christian P. Giardina, John A. Parrotta, Iain Davidson-Hunt. 2019. Considering diverse knowledge systems in forest landscape restoration
• Tony Marks-Block, Frank K. Lake, Lisa M. Curran. 2019. Effects of understory fire management treatments on California Hazelnut, an ecocultural resource of the Karuk and Yurok Indians in the Pacific Northwest
• Frank K. Lake, A.C. Christianson. 2019. Indigenous fire stewardship
• Andrew Gray, Frank K. Lake, Jonathan W. Long. 2018. Recent trends in large hardwoods in the Pacific Northwest, USA
• Frank K. Lake, Marla R. Emery, Michelle Baumflek, Kathleen Friday, Katie Kamelamela, Linda E. Kruger, Nicole Grewe, Jonathan Gilbert, Nicholas J. Reo. 2018. Chapter 4 - Cultural dimensions of nontimber products
• Frank K. Lake, Christian P. Giardina, John A. Parrotta, I. Hunt-Davidson. 2018. Considering diverse knowledge systems in forest landscape restoration
• Frank K. Lake, John A. Parrotta, Christian P. Giardina, Iain Hunt-Davidson, Yadav Uprety. 2018. Integration of Traditional and Western knowledge in forest landscape restoration
• Patricia De Angelis, Sharon Nygaard-Scott, James L. Chamberlain, Sharofa Crandall, Frank K. Lake, Rebecca J. McLain, Christine Mitchell, Amit Patel. 2018. Chapter 7 - Policies and regulations concerning non-timber forest products
• Aaron T. David, J. Eli Asarian, Frank K. Lake. 2018. Wildfire smoke cools summer river and stream water temperatures
• Jonathan W. Long, Frank K. Lake, Kathy Lynn, Carson Viles. 2018. Chapter 11: Tribal ecocultural resources and engagement
• Jonathan W. Long, Frank K. Lake. 2018. Escaping social-ecological traps through tribal stewardship on national forest lands in the Pacific Northwest, United States of America
• Craig Elevitch, J.B. Friday, Kathleen Friday, Frank K. Lake, Diomy Zamora, Katherine MacFarland. 2017. Chapter 5: Human dimensions of agroforestry systems
• Frank K. Lake, Vita Wright, Penelope Morgan, Mary McFadzen, Dave McWethy, Camille Stevens-Rumann. 2017. Returning fire to the land: celebrating traditional knowledge and fire
• M. Kat Anderson, Frank K. Lake. 2016. Beauty, bounty, and biodiversity: the story of California Indian’s relationship with edible native geophytes
• Heather Kramer, Brandon M. Collins, Frank K. Lake, Marek Jakubowski, Scott Stephens, Maggi Kelly. 2016. Estimating ladder fuels: a new approach combining field photography with LiDAR
• Jonathan W. Long, M. Kat Anderson, Lenya Quinn-Davidson, Ron W. Goode, Frank K. Lake, Carl N. Skinner. 2016. Restoring California black oak ecosystems to promote tribal values and wildlife
• Jonathan W. Long, Lenya Quinn-Davidson, Ron W. Goode, Frank K. Lake, Carl N. Skinner. 2015. Restoring California black oak to support tribal values and wildlife
• J. N. Crawford, S. A. Mensing, Frank K. Lake, S. R. Zimmerman. 2015. Late Holocene fire and vegetation reconstruction from the western Klamath Mountains, California, USA: a multi-disciplinary approach for examining potential human land-use impacts
• Susan Hummel, Frank K. Lake, A. Watts. 2015. Using forest knowledge: how silviculture can benefit from ecological knowledge systems about beargrass harvesting sites
• Susan Hummel, Frank K. Lake. 2015. Forest site classification for cultural plant harvest by tribal weavers can inform management
• Colleen Rossier, Frank K. Lake. 2014. Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge in agroforestry
• Patricia L. Winter, Jonathan W. Long, Frank K. Lake, Susan Charnley. 2014. Broader context for social, economic, and cultural components
• Patricia L. Winter, Jonathan W. Long, Frank K. Lake. 2014. Sociocultural perspectives on threats, risks, and health
• Susan Charnley, Jonathan W. Long, Frank K. Lake. 2014. Collaboration in national forest management
• Frank K. Lake, Jonathan W. Long. 2014. Fire and tribal cultural resources
• Garrit Voggesser, Kathy Lynn, John Daigle, Frank K. Lake, Darren Ranco. 2013. Cultural impacts to tribes from climate change influences on forests
• Kathy Lynn, John Daigle, Jennie Hoffman, Frank K. Lake, Natalie Michelle, Darren Ranco, Carson Viles, Garrit Voggesser, Paul Williams. 2013. The impacts of climate change on tribal traditional foods
• Frank K. Lake. 2013. Historical and cultural fires, tribal management and research issues in Northern California: Trails, fires and tribulations
• Kat M. Anderson, Frank K. Lake. 2013. California Indian ethnomycology and associated forest management
• Frank K. Lake. 2013. After the First Full Moon in April: A Sourcebook of Herbal Medicine from a California Indian Elder [Book Review]
• Ronald L. Trosper, Fred Clark, Patrica Gerez-Fernandez, Frank K. Lake, Deborah McGregor, Charles M. Peters, Silvia Purata, Teresa Ryan, Alan Thomson, Alan E. Watson, Stephen Wyatt. 2012. North America [Chapter 5]
• Frank K. Lake. 2011. Working with American Indian tribes on wildland fires: protecting cultural heritage sites in northwestern California
• Frank K. Lake, William Tripp, R. Reed. 2010. The Karuk tribe, planetary stewardship, and world renewal on the middle Klamath River, California
• René Senos, Frank K. Lake, Nancy Turner, Dennis Martinez. 2006. Traditional ecological knowledge and restoration practice

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

• Vinyeta, Kristen; Lake, Frank K.; Norgaard, Kari M. 2016. Chapter Three: Vulnerabilities of Traditional Foods and Cultural Use Species In Norgaard "Karuk Tribe Climate Vulnerability Assessment: Assessing Vulnerabilities from the Increased Frequency of High Severity Fires" prepared for the Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources report to DOI-BIA, pages: 65-133
• Kimmerer, R.W. and Lake, F.K., 2001. The role of indigenous burning in land management. Journal of forestry, 99(11), pp.36-41.

• Program
  

  Northern California Research Zone

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/programs/northzone
  Station

  Pacific Southwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Co-stewarding fire, fuel treatments, and research to promote Tribal values (WCS3)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/srs/projects/stewardship-tribal-values
  Station

  Southern Research Station
• Project
  

  Using Experimental Forests to provide insight to the Wildfire Crisis Strategy landscapes

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/bil-using-experimental-forests-provide-insight-wildfire-crisis-strategy-landscapes
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  A new, old way of thinking: Indigenous stewardship of culturally significant resources

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/projects/california-new-mexico-tribal-stewardship
  Station

  Pacific Southwest Research Station

Multimedia

• Podcast
  

  Afire: Understanding Fire Differently (Season 4, Episode 2)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/podcasts/afire-understanding-fire-differently-season-4-episode-2
• Webinars

  SCIENCE x Fire: Fire History and Fire Ecology

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/science-x-fire-fire-history-and-fire-ecology
• Video

  A Better Way to Think About Wildland Fires

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/products/multimedia/videos/better-way-think-about-wildland-fires

• Oregon State University, Ph.D., Environmental Sciences, 2007
• University of California, B.S., Integrated Ecology and Culture, Individual major; Native American Studies minor, 1995