High Bridge Trail at Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument. Photo from Flickr by the Bureau of Land Management California from By Taylar Dawn Stagner / Grist For a decade, wind farm companies had been eyeing Molok Luyuk — a mountain ridge of religious importance to tribes in northern California, whose people have worked for years […]
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Unraveling the Secrets of Salmon: An Indigenous Exploration of Forest Ecology and Nature’s Intelligence
Teresa Ryan, also known as Smhayetsk, from the Gitlan tribe of the Tsimshian Nation, carries the wisdom of her Ganhada clan and her mother, Loa Ryan. Her career in forestry and conservation sciences intertwines scientific rigor with Indigenous knowledge, creating a bridge between ancestral wisdom and modern ecological understanding. As a lecturer at the University […]
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Rae Wynn-Grant – Becoming a Wildlife Ecologist in a Rugged World
Growing up in the diverse and bustling California Bay Area, renowned wildlife ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant always felt worlds away from the white male adventurers she watched explore the wilderness on TV. As Rae set off on her own journey in the wild, finding her way in a profession where there were few scientists who […]
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New Study Solves Long-Standing Mystery of Starfish Body Structure
Looking at a starfish, you would not necessarily suppose it is a close relative of humans, nor that before it develops into the five-pointed creature we are familiar with, it has a body structure resembling our own. A new study published in Nature has solved a long-standing mystery for biologists about the development of starfish, […]