Los Padres, Chumash Tribe partnership shares ancestral knowledge with visitors
The new educational signs were installed at popular recreation sites on Los Padres National Forest’s Santa Lucia Ranger District. (USDA Forest Service photo by Angela McKim)
CALIFORNIA — Los Padres National Forest staff installed educational signs at five recreation sites on the Santa Lucia Ranger District…
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Restoring old-growth River Cane Systems and cultural connections
Research partners taking measurements of restored river cane stands during the June 2024 site visit. (USDA Forest Service by Donna Kridelbaugh)
ARKANSAS — Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Roger Cain, ethnobotanist and member with the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma,…
cultural, #AquaticRestoration, #HabitatRestoration, #EcologicalRestoration
Alaska ornaments, art, and…unity
In Alaska, holiday cheer began early this year. Alaskans and Alaska Native peoples spent their long summer days tapping into their inner artist, crafting nearly fifteen thousand beautifully handmade ornaments to adorn the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree.These ornaments are more than just impressive, festive decorations.Many of the ornaments honor the state’s rich and historic Indigenous culture, as…
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Blessing of Mount Democrat
Tribal representatives from the Rocky Mountain Region pose after a tribal blessing of Mount Democrat on Aug. 21, 2024. Members of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Northern Arapaho Tribe, Northern Cheyenne Tribe, Comanche Nation, Kiowa Tribe, and Cheyenne and Arapaho…
#Tribes, #Grasslands, #TribalActionPlan, #NativeAmericans, #LandAndWaterConservationFund, #Indigenous, #Traditions, #IndigenousKnowledge, cultural
Working with Tribes to sustain a cherished plant
A canebrake. River cane still grows along rivers and streams, where it protects water quality. However, the vast canebrakes that once flourished in southern flood plains have been destroyed. (Courtesy photo by Roger Cain)
River cane might be unfamiliar to some, but for many Indigenous people, it is part of…
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Partnership between culture and education
Tucked among the pines and sagebrush meadows, along the banks of the Buffalo Fork River in Wyoming, students from multiple Wind River Reservation schools traveled west of the continental divide to the Blackrock District administration site on the Bridger-Teton National Forest. The purpose of the visit was to take part in an educational and cultural experience known as the Blackrock Field Camp…