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The field of adaptive management has been embraced by researchers and managers in the United States as an approach to improve natural resource stewardship in the face of uncertainty and complex environmental problems. Integrating multiple knowledge sources and feedback mechanisms is an important step in this approach. Our objective is to contribute to the limited literature that describes the benefits of better integrating indigenous knowledge (IK) with other sources of knowledge in making adaptive-management decisions. Specifically, we advocate the integration of traditional phenological knowledge (TPK), a subset of IK, and highlight opportunities for this knowledge to support policy and practice of adaptive management...
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Relationship Understanding 2b-Effects of Fire on Ecosystems,
landscape scale conservation: Climate Change,
landscape scale conservation: Native-Aboriginal Ways
In recent years the management of the Copper River has provided an abundance of salmon but there are indications that certain wild stocks of sockeye and Chinook salmon may have declined from historical levels. In particular local people have indicated that climate change, beaver dams, and human use have altered salmon runs on certain tributary streams of the Copper River. Collecting traditional knowledge about past and present runs and correlating that data from the natural and social sciences (e.g. biology, geography, geology, anthropology, and archaeology) would extend our temporal knowledge of the Copper River salmon fishery and supplement and validate indices of abundance for Chinook and sockeye salmon. Eric...
Hunters and Bureaucrats is actually one book and a journal article. The "book" deals with the issue of Aboriginal-state relations in co-management and how the Kluane people have been forced into accepting the language and institutions of "wildlife management" to protect their rights to and interests in animals, only to discover that such processes undermine their relationships with animals, while concentrating control over their lives in the hands of the state. Nadasdy is at his best when he discusses the integration/transformation processes to which Kluane peoples must subject their knowledge in order to participate in co-management. The focus on co-management accounts for some 80% of the volume's content, and...
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Adaptation planning 1-Best management practices,
Landscape Scale Conservation: Wildlife,
landscape scale conservation: Native-Aboriginal Ways
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Excerpt from the Introduction: "This report characterizes the achievements of the Tanana Chiefs Conference, Inc.'s Tribal Environmental Restoration Program (TERP) during the 1999 calendar year. The report first introduces the reader to the history behind the development of TERP. Secondly, the report discusses the organization and intent of the TERP program. The remainder of the report reviews the various services performed by TERP program staff and the activities conducted by participating Tribal Liaison Officers to assess military impacts to TCC Tribes. For example, the regional report reviews the historical context of military impacts in Interior Alaska. Similarly, the report reviews the various levels of technical...
For over 1,000 years the Ahtna Athabascan people have fished for salmon in the Copper River and its tributatries. During that time they have gained a considerable knowledge of the salmon. THis report provides an overview of that knowledge including information on the Ahtna taxonomy of salmon and other fish, salmon life history, factors influencing the movement of salmon, harvesting devices and the preparation of fish, the traditional management system, and legends and stories about salmon.
The 7 Generations manual is designed for people in rural Alaska who want to accomplish environmental planning and management using a community-based approach. The manual contains valuable tools that enable a community to prioritize and identify its environmental issues. This manual was written to assist communities to be more self-reliant and to take responsibility for their own environmental issues. Building community strength to identify and solve problems is a powerful process that can lead to a healthier and more sustainable community. A community driven by the interests of its members will have a greater sense of ownership and pride in its accomplishments. A self-governing community also will have a greater...
This thesis focuses on transactional process involved in the construction and operation of the Kuskokwim River Salmon Management Working Group. This cooperative wildlife management mechanism gives Yup'ik commercial and subsistence fishermen and other users a direct role, with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, in salmon management. Transactions involving participants' knowledge and values are described in three processes: (1) the establishment of a management body and its operating rules; (2) the mediation of power in decision-making; and, (3) fishery management which uses both "science" and "fishermen's knowledge." Results indicate that through cooperation in decision-making, data gathering, and other management...
This research combines Ahtna environmental knowledge with data from the biological and social sciences to document changes in the upper Copper River salmon fishery. Information in this report covers the period from 1989 to 2004. Ahtna elders have observed that over time, fisheries management and competition from other users have adversely affected the productivity of subsistence harvests. The Ahtna attribute effects on salmon spawning in the headwaters of the Copper River to environmental pollution and interception by commercial and recreational fishers. Since 1889, when the commercial fishing industry began, historical reports document various effects on Copper River salmon stocks and subsistence harvests. The...
Co-management is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship and co-management researchers use concepts and methods drawn from a range of scholarly and applied disciplines. This is reflected in the papers included in this issue, and authors draw on analytical frameworks in anthropology, conservation ecology, environmental studies, geography, law, political and policy science, history and resource management. For example, [Harvey A. Feit] uses ethnohistory, resource management, analyses of bureaucratic practices and, with others, post-Foucauldian analyses of the state; Goetze uses conflict management, confidence-building theory and the international legal recognition of Indigenous rights, among other frameworks. Furthermore,...
A correction to the article "Indigenous frameworks for observing and responding to climate change in Alaska" by Patricia Cochran, Orville H. Huntington, and Stanley Tom that was published in the June 2014 issue is presented.
Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) about salmon is held and practiced by local fishers and elders in Central Yup'ik, Deg'Hitan and Koyukon communities of the Yukon River. At present this information contributes little to fisheries management on the Yukon River. At the direction of the Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association, to better understand changing salmon runs, Alaska Native fishers in the communities of Alakanuk, St. Mary's, Holy Cross, and Nulato were interviewed about their observations, knowledge and understanding of king salmon populations and behavior. Participants provided a variety of examples of TEK indicators describing salmon arrival time and run strength. Utilization of TEK increases the...
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