Current Research

My current research involves wildland fire effects, traditional ecological knowledge, Climate Change, and ethno-ecology with an emphasis on cultural management and fire ecology of forest, shrub, grassland and riparian environments in the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion. My research projects support the Western Klamath Restoration Partnership composed of the Mid Klamath Watershed Council and Orleans-Somes Bar Fire Safe Council, Karuk Tribe, Yurok Tribe, The Nature Conservancy, rural community members, and government agencies on fuels reduction, prescribed fire, ethno-botany, and other natural resource issues. My other projects and research include: American Indian Tribes and Climate Change; Agroforestry practices of Indigenous and tribal people, and Wildland Fire effects on Heritage and Cultural Resources. I mentor and serve as a graduate committee member for several students working on tribal food security, wildland fire, and forest management. I serve as a Resource Advisor on wildfires, and am a faculty member of the Rx 510 Advanced Fire Effects course at the National Advanced Fire and Resources Institute.

Past Research

I have worked as a fisheries habitat biologist in western Oregon on the Siuslaw and Rouge River National Forests and in Northwestern California for the Hoopa Tribe's Fisheries Program. I switched from fisheries habitat work in 1999 and started graduate school in the Fall 2000 to study traditional ecological knowledge, tribal/fire management practices and fire ecology.

Education

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

Professional Organizations

• Ecological Society of America, Chair (2014 - 2016)
  As a member and section leader (Vice Chair 2012-2014, and Chair 2014-2016) I assist with organizing TEK section events. These range from fieldtrips, Special Session-Sense of Place, Organized Oral Sessions, and Symposia.

Awards & Recognition

Publications

• Marks-Block, Tony ; Lake, Frank K.; Curran, Lisa M. 2019. Effects of understory fire management treatments on California Hazelnut, an ecocultural resource of the Karuk and Yurok Indians in the Pacific Northwest.
• Lake, F.K. ; Christianson, A.C. . 2019. Indigenous fire stewardship.
• Long, Jonathan ; Lake, Frank K.; Lynn, Kathy ; Viles, Carson . 2018. Chapter 11: Tribal ecocultural resources and engagement.
• Lake, Frank K.; Emery, Marla R.; Baumflek, Michelle J.; Friday, Kathleen S.; Kamelamela, Katie ; Kruger, Linda ; Grewe, Nicole ; Gilbert, Jonathan ; Reo, Nicholas J. 2018. Chapter 4 - Cultural dimensions of nontimber products.
• De Angelis, Patricia ; Nygaard-Scott, Sharon ; Chamberlain, James ; Crandall, Sharofa ; Lake, Frank K.; McLain, Rebecca J.; Mitchell, Christine ; Patel, Amit R. 2018. Chapter 7 - Policies and regulations concerning non-timber forest products.
• Lake, Frank; Giardina, Christian; Parrota, J.A.; Hunt-Davidson, I. 2018. Considering diverse knowledge systems in forest landscape restoration.
• Long, Jonathan W.; Lake, Frank K. 2018. Escaping social-ecological traps through tribal stewardship on national forest lands in the Pacific Northwest, United States of America.
• Lake, Frank; Parrotta, John; Giardina, Christian; Hunt-Davidson, Iain; Uprety, Yadav. 2018. Integration of Traditional and Western knowledge in forest landscape restoration.
• Long, Jonathan ; Gray, Andrew ; Lake, Frank . 2018. Recent trends in large hardwoods in the Pacific Northwest, USA.
• David, Aaron T.; Asarian, J. Eli; Lake, Frank K. 2018. Wildfire smoke cools summer river and stream water temperatures.
• MacFarland, Kate ; Elevitch, Craig ; Friday, J.B. ; Friday, Kathleen ; Lake, Frank K.; Zamora, Diomy . 2017. Chapter 5: Human dimensions of agroforestry systems.
• Lake, Frank K.; Wright, Vita; Morgan, Penelope; McFadzen, Mary; McWethy, Dave; Stevens-Rumann, Camille. 2017. Returning fire to the land: celebrating traditional knowledge and fire.
• Anderson, M. Kat;  Lake, Frank K. . 2016. Beauty, bounty, and biodiversity: the story of California Indian s relationship with edible native geophytes.
• Kramer, Heather; Collins, Brandon; Lake, Frank; Jakubowski, Marek; Stephens, Scott; Kelly, Maggi. 2016. Estimating ladder fuels: a new approach combining field photography with LiDAR.
• Long, Jonathan W.; Anderson, M. Kat; Quinn-Davidson, Lenya; Goode, Ron W.; Lake, Frank K.; Skinner, Carl N. 2016. Restoring California black oak ecosystems to promote tribal values and wildlife.
• Hummel, S.; Lake, F.K. 2015. Forest site classification for cultural plant harvest by tribal weavers can inform management.
• Crawford, J. N.; Mensing, S. A.; Lake, Frank; Zimmerman, S. R. 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.
• Long, Jonathan W.; Quinn-Davidson, Lenya; Goode, Ron W.; Lake, Frank K.; Skinner, Carl N. 2015. Restoring California black oak to support tribal values and wildlife.
• Hummel, S.; Lake, Frank; Watts, A. 2015. Using forest knowledge: how silviculture can benefit from ecological knowledge systems about beargrass harvesting sites.
• Winter, Patricia L.; Long, Jonathan W.; Lake, Frank K.; Charnley, Susan. 2014. Broader context for social, economic, and cultural components.
• Charnley, Susan; Long, Jonathan W.; Lake, Frank K. 2014. Collaboration in national forest management.
• Lake, Frank K.; Long, Jonathan W. 2014. Fire and tribal cultural resources.
• Rossier, Colleen; Lake, Frank. 2014. Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge in agroforestry.
• Winter, Patricia L.; Long, Jonathan W.; Lake, Frank K. 2014. Sociocultural perspectives on threats, risks, and health.
• Lake, Frank K. 2013. After the First Full Moon in April: A Sourcebook of Herbal Medicine from a California Indian Elder Book Review.
• Anderson, Kat M.; Lake, Frank K. 2013. California Indian ethnomycology and associated forest management.
• Voggesser, Garrit; Lynn, Kathy; Daigle, John; Lake, Frank K.; Ranco, Darren. 2013. Cultural impacts to tribes from climate change influences on forests.
• Lake, Frank K. 2013. Historical and cultural fires, tribal management and research issues in Northern California: Trails, fires and tribulations.
• Lynn, Kathy; Daigle, John; Hoffman, Jennie; Lake, Frank; Michelle, Natalie; Ranco, Darren; Viles, Carson; Voggesser, Garrit; Williams, Paul. 2013. The impacts of climate change on tribal traditional foods.
• Trosper, Ronald L.; Clark, Fred; Gerez-Fernandez, Patrica; Lake, Frank; McGregor, Deborah; Peters, Charles M.; Purata, Silvia; Ryan, Teresa; Thomson, Alan; Watson, Alan E.; Wyatt, Stephen. 2012. North America Chapter 5.
• Lake, Frank K.; Tripp, William; Reed, R. 2010. The Karuk tribe, planetary stewardship, and world renewal on the middle Klamath River, California.
• Senos, René; Lake, Frank K.; Turner, Nancy; Martinez, Dennis. 2006. Traditional ecological knowledge and restoration practice.

Research Highlights

Highlight	Title	Year
PSW-2015-101	Paleoclimate Fire History Study Reveals Human Affects to Fire Regime Differs Than Expected Climate on Western Klamath Vegetation. Forest Service scientists examined low-elevation lakes to determine if American Indian and early American forest management could be detected us ...	2015
PSW-2017-244	Returning fire to the land: celebrating traditional knowledge and fire What are the "must do" approaches for working with tribes for wildland fire research and management? Tribal members, managers, and researchersen ...	2017
PSW-2016-52	Student Collaboration Links Tribal History with Cultural Resources, Fire Regimes, Forest Management, and Ecological Habitats Open prairie grass and oak-dominated woodlands provide numerous cultural resources to the Yurok Tribe. Since the 1940s, more than 80 percent of ...	2016