Understanding Traditional Ecosystem Management Practices

This project documented the traditional ecosystem management practices of the Gwich’in and Koyukon community of Beaver, Alaska through the collection of oral histories. The findings provide insight and understanding into the culturally-based rules which guided management and relationships between people, landscapes, and food resources to ensure sustainable yield within the northwest boreal forest and developed a suite of principles for sustainable, productive boreal ecosystems.

Our Role
Funder

Project Leader
Council of AthabascanTribal Governments

More information
Project Report

Topics
Adaptation, Subsistence & Harvested Foods

Approaches
Data or Knowledge Synthesis, Local and Indigenous Knowledge

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