Bill Tripp is a Karuk tribal member, and Director of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy at the Karuk Tribe Dept. of Natural Resources.

Bill has been a student of fire from an early age; by the time he was 8, after learning from his grandmother from age 4, he was burning by himself, tending to hazel, beating back blackberry, and keeping the ground under black oak trees clear of excessive leaf litter and dead wood. Throughout his career, Bill has worked to integrate Indigenous and western science into collaborative land management frameworks with an eye towards meeting the needs of water, fish, wildlife, plants, and people. Bill believes that viewing active management through the lens of socioecological resilience first, is key to progressing shared values of a diverse array of knowledge, practice and belief systems in our mission of learning to live with wildland fire in a changing climate.