Ambitious B.C. project aims to fight climate change one seed at a time
Seed the North will collect seeds and use drone technology to drop them over areas disturbed by both natural disaster and industry.
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Seed the North will collect seeds, combine them in biodiverse seedpods and, using drone technology, drop them over thousands of acres that have been disturbed by natural events and industry. (Amanda Follett Hosgood for The Tyee)
For Natasha Kuperman, the seed was planted at a young age.
“Everyone has an issue that they think is the most important thing,” she says. “My entire life, it was clear to me without a doubt that climate change is the issue that trumps all other issues.”
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Amanda Follett Hosgood 4 May 2021 | The Tyee / Investigate West
Amanda Follett Hosgood is The Tyee’s northern B.C. reporter. She lives in Wet’suwet’en territory. Find her on Twitter @amandajfollett. SHARES Natasha Kuperman on her northern BC plot, where she is trying to develop a way of seeding resilient, carbon-absorbing forests using pods dropped from drones.
Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood. [Editor’s note: This is the latest in a year-long occasional series of articles produced by InvestigateWest in partnership with The Tyee and other news organizations exploring what it will take to shift the Cascadia region to a zero-carbon economy, and is supported in part by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.]
Even 150 Years Later, Lush Forest Gardens Showcase The Value of Native Stewardship
25 APRIL 2021
The way humans manage the environment doesn t have to be destructive. In the western corner of Canada, ecologists have shown forests once tended by First Nations people are healthier and more resilient – even now, 150 years after these ancient custodians were forcibly displaced by colonial settlers.
The study is among the first to compare the Indigenous gardening practices of North America with modern-day land management, and the findings are stark.
In forests touched by recent human activity, researchers found a wood dominated by conifers and hemlocks. Whereas in the forest gardens of the Ts msyen and Coast Salish peoples, the team found a diversity of native fruit and nut trees, including crabapple, hazelnut, cranberry, wild plum, and wild cherries.