Episode 60: Miriam Morrill – Pyrosketchology

Miriam is a fire management specialist who promotes place-based fire education. Miriam uses nature journaling as a tool for tuning into the environment before, during and after fire. When we are aware of our environment in this deep way, we are better able to make decisions about fire awareness and management.

Listen to hear more about:

• How nature was a refuge for Miriam during childhood.

• The story of how Miriam came to make fire management and education her career.

• The history of fire exclusion and how this practice has changed the landscape.

• How Miriam helped bring nature journalers together to journal a prescribed fire and cultural burn.

• Why Miriam considers nature journaling fire a ‘full-brained and full-bodied experience’.

• Trauma informed approaches to fire education.

• How Miriam uses metadata to understand the fire environment.

• What information we can add to our nature journals before, during and after fire.

• Integrating fire into our sense of place.
  
  

Learn more about Miriam and her work at www.pyrosketchology.com. You can also find Miriam on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

To learn more about Indigenous fire management and cultural burning, check out the podcast Good Fire.

One of my previous podcast guests, Robin Carlson, also uses nature journaling to document fire. You can listen to that episode here.

See below, several pages from Miriam’s work visually representing our relationship with fire:

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