On the first day, we got to meet with a few members of the Ojibwe tribe to learn about prescribed fire. Historically, the Ojibwe tribe, and other tribes all over the nation, intentionally set fires to areas of the forest to allow for new growth and healthy forests. However, once North America was colonized, the fires were forced to stop. We are now beginning to realize the importance of prescribed fires, and people all over the country are starting to join the movement to bring them back into management practices. The group we met were working with a camera crew to create a documentary to highlight the history behind the forest and the fires set by the Ojibwe. One of their goals with this was to show the importance of prescribed fire and explain why we need to bring fire back. They also had several tree cross sections for us to look at; they pointed out the black tree rings that signified a year that a prescribed burn had occurred. It was unbelievably cool that tree rings tell us so much about the history of the area: black rings show fire, thin rings show a lack of water or nutrients, thick rings show abundant water and nutrients. So much history held in rings that are only a few millimeters thick.