In this episode of the podcast YourForest, host Matthew Kristoff discusses decolonizing land stewardship with Dr. Jennifer Grenz, focusing on the necessity of being 'rooted in truth' and recognizing the legacies of colonialism that shaped current environmental laws. Dr. Grenz champions the concept of Two-Eyed Seeing - bringing Indigenous knowledge and Western science together - to create a stronger, more effective, and human-centric approach to stewarding our landscapes in a rapidly changing climate.
147-Emulating Natural Disturbance with Ellen Macdonald
Nature knows best…right? So, our forest management strategies should try to emulate nature? That’s what we used to think. Unfortunately, our ideas on how to emulate natural disturbance rarely result in something that acts like a natural disturbance. Bottom line, we are not fire, and we want different things from fire, so we need to not act like fire. We have had some good ideas, and our minds were in the right place, but it is now time to shake things up. Let’s put that big head of ours to use and come up with something that would make mother nature proud.

