Community revegetation program at the Faro mine

Tree-planting

In 2020, IEG began working with Dena Cho Environmental and Remediation Inc. and CIRNAC on the revegetation program at the Faro Mine, located on Kaska traditional territory in south-central Yukon.…

IEG launches free mine-reclamation ecohydrology tool

Mine reclamation ecohydrology tool

IEG has spent almost a decade, and substantial effort, developing quantitative approaches to ecohydrological analysis, reclamation-cover design, and projection of post-closure ecosystems on mining landscapes. The culmination of this work…

New paper on cumulative effects of disturbance to bird populations

The ALCES Online Landscape Simulator

A paper published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution presents a modeling study exploring long-term bird population responses in northeastern Alberta (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2020.00252/full). IEG ecologist Matt Carlson, one of the paper’s…

Integration is Needed!

Working in harmony

According to a report by the Council of Canadian Academies expert panel on integrated natural resource management (INRM), conventional methods of natural resource management haven’t kept pace with the…

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Ann Garibaldi, Bonnie Thomas and Nancy Turner

In honour of Secwepemc elder Mary Thomas A recent announcement of the release of Secwepemc People and Plants: Research Papers in Shuswap Ethnobotany, caused me to reflect on the laughter…