Our paper “Adapting Forest Management to Climate Change: Experiences of the Nisga’a People” has been selected to be featured in the Open Access BioOne EarthDay2021 Collection. All articles are freely available through June 30, 2021!
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Many thanks to our research collaborators in the Nass Valley and the @WWN_Institute, especially to Dr. Deanna Nyce (@NyceDeanna), my friend Irene Squires (@Hagwilook), and my loving wife Estefania Milla-Moreno (@ea_mimo) for all their support during fieldwork and afterward.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Non-Indigenous forest management was disastrous for the ecology of the Nass Valley area.
• Non-Indigenous forest management showed no recognition of, or respect for, Nisga’a traditional approaches to land management.
• Traditional Nisga’a resource management is a resilience-oriented management approach.
• Future approaches need to be based on Indigenous people’s knowledge and rights while at the same time utilizing valuable knowledge from non-Indigenous sources.
• An inclusive management approach focused on restoring ecosystem function can enhance Nisga’a forest resilience.