Dr. Suzanne Simard and Dr. Teresa (Sm’hayetsk) Ryan recently wrote a letter to the Haida Gwaii Management Council providing feedback on the Haida Gwaii Timber Supply Review Public Discussion Paper.
Letter to Haida Gwaii Management Council regarding Haida Gwaii Timber Supply Review Public Discussion Paper.
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The tree-mendous information you are narrating is most fascinating and amazing. There is one piece of detail that I find missing in the storytelling, especially regarding the wisdom of Indigenous practices , and that is that the size of population levels between then and now, particularly as those practices are compared with the Western ways of using the trees in the forest to meet the needs of so many more people and communities of 2023. How do foresters today, maintain the same harmony and balance with Nature, using the same ways of doings things as they were done for so many fewer people?