Braiding Indigenous and Western Knowledge for Climate Adapted Forests - An Ecocultural State of Science Report

This document outlines the critical need to braid Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science to create climate-adapted forests in the United States. A primary theme is the historical impact of Euro-American colonization, fire exclusion, and settler colonialism on North American forest ecosystems, leading to the loss of Indigenous stewardship and creating dense, fire-maladapted landscapes highly vulnerable to severe wildfires and climate change stressors. The text defines IK as an invaluable, multi-generational body of systemic knowledge and cultural practices emphasizing kinship with nature and reciprocity, contrasting it with the empirical and objective approach of WS.

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Author C. Eisenberg, S. Prichard, M.P. Nelson, P. Hessburg
Publication Year 2024
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Last Updated January 28, 2026, 19:21 (UTC)
Created January 28, 2026, 18:08 (UTC)