188 page draft manuscript completed January 2025.  My goals in writing this manuscript were two: first, to gain control of all the data for an assigned chapter on Kalapuyan fire use for the in-process book Kalapuyans of the Willamette Valley (Lewis, Connolly, and Zenk eds); and second, to summarize all known data, historic and ethnographic, on fire use by Kalapuyans, in particular everything relevant from the various journals of the 1841 U.S. Exploring (“Wilkes”) Expedition.  Compiling all the Wilkes data in a single place had been an item on my “bucket list,” to do after Before Portland was completed, but the assignment of the chapter for the Kalapuyans volume prompted me to do most of that work first.  And in pulling it all together, I realized that I needed to consider “water” (wetlands, waterways, precipitation, etc.) as well in my season-to-season coverage, hence the title “Fire and Water.”  As of early 2026, the long manuscript is all but complete, though the short version for the Kalapuyans volume is only in draft form.   The environmental volume of Kalapuyans will probably come together in late 2026-2027, and at that time the disposition of both the long and short versions of “Fire and Water” should become clearer than it is now.