Suzanne Arlie Park, the study site of our project, is on the ancestral homeland of the Kalapuyan people. The Kalapuya have used fire in the form of cultural burns as a tool for land stewardship of the Willamette Valley for thousands of years. Cultural burning practices support healthy oak savanna habitat, prevent the encroachment of woody vegetation, and provide the ecological disruption needed to sustain grasslands and promote biodiversity. However, the violent displacement of the Kalapuyan people by European settlers in the late 19th century disrupted this practice with fire exclusion policies. Although burns on the landscape were suppressed, the traditional ecological knowledge that informs these practices was not lost and indigenous fire-practitioners continue to manage Oregon habitats with controlled burns.