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British Columbia’s Kaska Nation wants to protect a wilderness area larger than Denali National Park, which brings both promise and challenge to the future of Indigenous-led conservation.
The burgeoning cruise ship industry’s presence has its critics, who view it as community-altering and unsustainable, while others welcome its jobs and revenue.
A collaborative effort among tribes, irrigators, and environmental groups to untangle conflicts over water use offers a path to success for river restoration and local economies.
In 2018, Portland, Oregon, passed a bill to corporations working in the city to pay a surcharge for climate justice initiatives. The fund quickly turned into billions. Here’s how it’s going, eight years on.
The winter diet of endangered orcas has long been a mystery, but emerging studies now offer clues into what’s sustaining them—one fish scale at a time.
As Native students seek careers in conservation and Indigenous-led stewardship, the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission has partnered with University of Washington to create a solution.
Despite the ongoing, decades-long debate on whether to bring grizzly bears back to California, tribes are taking the lead, and it’s changing the discourse.
How a lake in British Columbia, Canada, once drained for settlement, is being considered for reflooding as an act of transboundary restoration by First Nations.
Magic Canoe was on the ground for one of the largest ecocultural events of the year in Salmon Nation, which brought thousands of changemakers and creatives together last month in Berkeley, California. Here’s what we found.
How one of the largest cities in Salmon Nation has restored the Duwamish River over the past three decades — community-first and one mucky step at a time.
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