#EarthDay2021 BioOne Collection

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!

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_mimofor 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.

Research selection on Forest Policy and Climate Change

The Paris Climate Change Conference is a focus point for policy makers and researchers from all over the world, working on agreements based on the best current science there is. For those interested in specific research in this field in Forestry, Forest Policy and Economics has made an article selection with 15 relevant articles.

This article selection is now freely available for a period of three months. We trust this selection will provide you with valuable insights into this complicated and important area of research.

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