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Georgina Preston

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Settler living in Kaska Territory - working to improve wildfire co-existence in rural communities. Advocate for Indigenous sovereignty, especially as it pertains to land & water stewardship

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Home A Yellowhead School Online Course Land Back An open access online course about the ways Canada dispossesses Indigenous people of the land -- and the strategies communities are using to get it back. Th...

Stressed and depressed? Me too. You should check out this open access online Land Back course by the Yellowhead Institute instead of continuing to doomscroll.

learnonline.yellowheadinstitute.org

18.03.2025 16:04 — 👍 91    🔁 42    💬 2    📌 1
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Restoration treatments enhance tree growth and alter climatic constraints during extreme drought The frequency and severity of drought events are predicted to increase due to anthropogenic climate change, with cascading effects across forested ecosystems. Management activities such as forest thi...

New paper by Kyle Rodman and colleagues!

"Our results illustrate that restoration treatments [thinning and prescribed fire] can enhance tree-level growth across sites spanning ponderosa pine's climatic niche, even during recent, extreme drought events."

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18.03.2025 15:44 — 👍 31    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Indigenous rights-holders must be able to access resources to lead wildfire risk reduction, ecocultural restoration, & climate change adaptation work on their Traditional lands. While they will face the highest consequences if this work doesn't occur, everyone suffers if we can't co-exist with fire.

13.03.2025 17:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Me7 tsertsrép re nekéct : me tsecéntem re tmicw-kt Indigenous lands in interior British Columbia (BC), Canada are being impacted by increasingly large, fast-moving, high-severity wildfires due to climate change and an increase in vegetation (fuels) re...

This report, as well as my MSc thesis, highlights the challenges that SX and other rural communities in BC face in addressing wildfire risk. They also highlight possible SX solutions! open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/c...

13.03.2025 17:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Me7 tsertsrép re nekéct (the forest will burn): me tsecéntem re tmicw-kt (we will restore our land) Stswecem’c Xget’tem First Nation (SXFN) Community ReportFire has always and will always be a part of Stswecem’c Xget’tem First Nation (SXFN) Territory, but recent fires have had negative impacts on t...

Proud to share a community report I wrote on my MSc wildfire research for Stswecem'c Xget'tem First Nation. Many Indigenous communities are surrounded by high wildfire risk, but face barriers from settler-colonial govs & economic systems when addressing it.
www.ubctreeringlab.ca/post/me7-tse...

13.03.2025 16:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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