The Wardian Case was an invention that changed the world, but how? 🤔

Join our Economic Botany Collections Manager and Assistant Archivist in exploring the history of plant transportation and the box that made it possible 📽️👇

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Incredible new research in #Science about the genomic landscape of #manioc (casava, yuca) and Indigenous cultivation & selection: kinship maintained over long distances, high genetic diversity, a continental gene pool shaped and maintained by people over millennia.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

America is burning. Meanwhile #Swinomish Tribe's wetland stewardship tool is outshining mainstream assessment models.

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Attention archaeologists! New book out from UBC press on meaningful practices from a guy that knows what that means!

Charlie Angus on Trump: "This isn’t gunboat diplomacy. This is Al Capone during his syphilitic period trying to do a shakedown.”

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NSF review panels cancelled at the last minute today. Devastating for colleagues in US and makes me question what a Polievre govt would do to Tri-Council

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New research out of the Canadian Rockies!

Colonial management of Egnuck Wida montane grasslands decreased 4-fold (b/w 1924 and 2021) w/ greater losses in crown-managed lands than lands under Stoney Iyethka stewardship

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A still from the Tom Thomson Centennial Swim in which I swam the length of Canoe Lake on the centenary of Tom Thomson’s death. I was accompanied by a brass ensemble in canoes and a synchronized swimming squad who met up with me at several points along the swim. #contemporaryart #art #videoart

Wildflowers of Palestine. 1882 edition by Harvey B. Tristam and illustrated by Hulda Klager 🇵🇸🌿

#Palestine #Botanical #Herbarium

Currently off-vibing, nursing a throat virus with two epic plant people: marshmallow (wow!) and black elderberry (damn!).

Health products aren't regulated in Canada, so if you can find these from a local harvester you'll know you're in for some serious healing powers.

#ethnobotany #ethnoecology

'To the Dene people, who've lived in Alaska & NW Canada for centuries, debate over canine origins is in danger of missing a bigger point.
“The idea of dogs is a very specific, modern, Western concept,”...For Indigenous ppl, dogs functioned as partners in survival, allies on a harsh landscape.' 🏺🧪🐺🐕

“…any numerical probability…is not an objective property of the world, but a construction based on personal or collective judgements &(often doubtful) assumptions… , it is not even estimating some underlying ‘true’ quantity. Probability, indeed, can only rarely be said to ‘exist’ at all” 🧪

in a "span of 71 years, most of the mounds left by Indigenous people from centuries earlier — which led to St. Louis being dubbed Mound City — were destroyed to make way for urban development. Some of these mounds contained ancestors of the Osage Nation and other tribes

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More. Of. This.

"But for industry, the money is in conifers."

@thenarwhal.ca covers how BC forestry goes to great lengths, including compromising collective human-biotic health, to speed up the establishment of conifer plantations.

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#BritishColumbia #Forestry #Glyphosate

#Genetic evidence supports long-distance transplanting and cultivation of #hazelnut by Ts'msyen, Nisga'a, and Gitxsan, starting roughly 7000 years ago. Linguistic indices enhanced the explanatory power of the genetic data. #BritishColumbia #HistoricalEcology

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