SAF Learning
Braiding Indigenous and Western Knowledge for Climate-Adapted Forests
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Technical session information
North American forests are experiencing unprecedented challenges due to extreme wildfires, pathogen and insect outbreaks, heat stress, drought, rapid development, and invasive species. Exacerbated by climate change, these threats collectively diminish cultural values, economic values, and habitat. Contemporary and historical management, including a long legacy of fire exclusion in many sites, are root causes of current forest conditions.
This presentation overviews an ecocultural state-of-knowledge report that brings together Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and Western Science (WS) to support climate and wildfire adaptation strategies for forest landscapes. This report builds on federal directives to respectfully and intentionally braid IK and WS knowledge systems in a Two-Eyed Seeing approach that informs climate- and wildfire-adaptation strategies to conserve our public forests.
Is this technical session for you?
These recordings are intended for students and professionals in forestry interested in federal forest policy, defining and conserving mature and old-growth forests, tribal forestry and traditional ecological knowledge, and climate-informed forestry broadly.
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Recording access
The archived recording of this technical session is available through June 20, 2025. Registrants will be informed if this changes.
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Recording duration
This technical session recording is 36 minutes.
Learning objectives
Upon successful completion of this learning product, you will be able to:
1. Describe the Two-Eye Seeing approach.
2. Name at least two climate- and wildfire- adapted strategies to conserve public forests.
Rubric
Successful completion of this learning product is measured by watching the entire technical session recording and completing the evaluation
Evaluation
Participant feedback is appreciated to help us continually improve ForestEd offerings for future programming. Evaluations must be completed to receive CFEs.
CFEs
Upon successful completion of this learning product, you will earn 0.5 CFEs in Category 1. CFEs will automatically be added to your CFE record located on www.eforester.org by the end of the day (11:59 pm ET).
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