[2] Lands historically occupied by Indigenous peoples have become attuned to this process of low frequent burns, but all environment are not adjusted to this management.
[7] A study was done in Western Australia that looked into different fire management strategies and how they influence an endangered plant species known as the Backwater grevillea.
Returning the Indigenous peoples' connection to the land created an opportunity for knowledge and kinship of local plants to be restored.
It has been shown that areas managed using Indigenous practices had created forests that were open and had a mixed stand of tree species.
[6] Without fire, California forests are now experiencing and over-densification of conifer trees which crowd out understory species and hinder the success rate of Black Oak saplings.
In the final stage they would prune and trim the Black Oaks to encourage a tree shape that would have existed prior to the conifers' take over.
The tribe then planned to keep up management practices with routine burns and smoking the trees regularly to deter pests.
These restoration efforts are extremely important as they not only improve the environments' resilience to climate change but also grant more opportunities to tribes and low income communities as they now have more ecological services and cultural benefits.
As many tribes in California have been forced to live on small reservations having a productive forests nearby is necessary to keep their traditions and way of life alive.
[4] Native Americans of the olympic peninsula in Washington have been known to manage their ecosystems in favor of beneficial plants like the Bear Grass which is used for basket weaving.
They play a key role in stabilizing the region's various vegetation communities from grasslands and prairies to conifer and deciduous forests.
However there is evidence showing the Indigenous population used fires to change their ecosystem and decrease fuel load to lessen the severity of natural wildfires.
This would involve monitoring the weather, fuel, and topographic data of the region to predict when and where a lightning strike could occur, and where it could travel once igniting.
[2] Allowing tree cover to dominate expand in western Australia has resulted in greater intensity and frequency of wildfire.