UMN President, Joan Gabel, understands the role of forestry to the regional economy and culture. She is also learning about the importance of Indigenous people in the state and beyond. See the newsletter from the Forest Resource Department: https://www.forestry.umn.edu/presidentgabel
Here is a nice article in the Minnesota Daily exploring Indigenous people, climate change, and environmental justice. Many Indigenous people I work with say climate change is a symptom of our broken relationships with each other and, non-human beings, and ecosystems. https://www.mndaily.com/article/2019/12/n-students-gather-exploring-relationship-between-climate-change-indigenous-peoples
The Journal of forestry has published our paper based on a survey of 100 US Forest Service Research Scientists. Approximately half the survey respondents, and more women than men, indicated that they had experienced work-related discrimination or harassment. Survey respondents identified gender as the most common basis of discrimination. This paper Read more…
I have published a new paper with Nancy Langston in Environmental History on the Indigenous roots of sustainable forestry in Bolivia. In the mid-2000s, Bolivia emerged as a leader in sustainable tropical forestry, in large part because of Ley 1700, the 1996 forestry law. Indigenous lowland communities were instrumental in Read more…
I was honored to be a part of a panel discussion with the National Academies of Sciences on Indigenous perspectives on biotechnology. My presentation starts at 56:03 (click on screen shot). Here is a link to the entire presentation and the National Academies of Sciences website: http://nas-sites.org/dels/studies/forest-biotech/webinar-indigenous/ where you can Read more…
The Journal of Forestry September 2017 issue is dedicated to Tribal Forest Management. I co-edited this special issue with Serra Hoagland of the USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station. This is really exciting because it is the culmination of a several year process of bringing together 24 articles from Indigenous and Read more…
Here is a link to a very detailed training video from the Department of Justice. The training video is very comprehensive and worth the 67 minutes to watch it. While the video is focused on Sacred Sites and federal responsibilities, there are great overviews of federal Indian law, tribal consultation, Read more…
Here is a lecture I gave at the World Forestry Center in Portland, OR as part of The Hagenstein Lectures. In the lecture I discuss how 21st Century Forestry can transform our society, economy, and sustain our environment.
Dave Bengston and I recently published an essay on the future of forests in The Futurist. This article is a preview of our presentation at the World Future Society meeting this summer. Below is a link to the article. Comments and suggestions are welcome. The Future of Forests in the Read more…
Two Weeks ago I participated in the 14th annual To Bridge a Gap Conference in Fayetteville, AR. The event was sponsored by the US Forest Service and the Eastern Shawnee Tribe and featured presentations and field trips for cultural heritage and natural resource managers. Many tribes, like my tribe the Read more…