Forrest Hisey
@fhisey.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. @FGCU. He/Him. Lover of fly fishing, tacos, and wild places. Avoids humidity and weak coffee. Orioles fan
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Check out our digest of @fhisey.bsky.social, Melissa Heppner, and Andrea Olive’s qualitative study on how social acceptance and material resources complicate the return of bison to the Canadian plains. Read more on how land, animals, and history intersect:
Hisey et al.: Fears and Fences: Bison on the Canadian Prairies — The Rural Reconciliation Project
In Fears and Fences: Social and Material Barriers to Plains Bison on the Canadian Prairies , auth ors Forrest Hisey, Melissa Heppner (both Geography, Geomatics, and Environment, Univers ity of Toro...
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June 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Check out our digest of @fhisey.bsky.social, Melissa Heppner, and Andrea Olive’s qualitative study on how social acceptance and material resources complicate the return of bison to the Canadian plains. Read more on how land, animals, and history intersect:
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Our Executive Director caught a fish with a selenium style gill deformity in Crowsnest river a few years ago. It made her wonder...
This is a very damning and worrying study by provincial scientists. It demands a response from Minister Schulz. If we already have unsafe levels of selenium in Crowsnest Lake from legacy coal mines why are we looking at additional mines? @cpawssab.bsky.social #abpoli
News Release: Alberta silent on government science showing selenium makes Crowsnest fish unsafe to eat
“Any new development of coal mining along the eastern slopes may well push the Crowsnest fishery beyond recovery.”
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June 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Our Executive Director caught a fish with a selenium style gill deformity in Crowsnest river a few years ago. It made her wonder...
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Recently, two parks in B.C. announced temporarily closures so First Nations can access the land — and some people are angry about it. @michellecyca.com considers the history of public parks, their imperilled present and whether you have anything to be mad about. thenarwhal.ca/bc-parks-fir...
Why are First Nations closing B.C. parks? | The Narwhal
Two popular parks have been closed in B.C. and the public backlash is missing the point: Indigenous Rights
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May 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Recently, two parks in B.C. announced temporarily closures so First Nations can access the land — and some people are angry about it. @michellecyca.com considers the history of public parks, their imperilled present and whether you have anything to be mad about. thenarwhal.ca/bc-parks-fir...
New research on Canadian conservation easements!
I tracked easement legislation across Canada, finding unique opportunities from Canadian policy arenas and pressures from above & below subnational govs to increase private land conservation.
www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/...
I tracked easement legislation across Canada, finding unique opportunities from Canadian policy arenas and pressures from above & below subnational govs to increase private land conservation.
www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/...
Provincial diffusion, national acceptance: the transfer of conservation easement policy in Canada
Conservation easements (CEs) are a private land conservation (PLC) tool, with landowners voluntarily selling property rights to an outside entity (governmental or nongovernmental). Pioneered in the US...
www.facetsjournal.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
New research on Canadian conservation easements!
I tracked easement legislation across Canada, finding unique opportunities from Canadian policy arenas and pressures from above & below subnational govs to increase private land conservation.
www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/...
I tracked easement legislation across Canada, finding unique opportunities from Canadian policy arenas and pressures from above & below subnational govs to increase private land conservation.
www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/...
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Doug Ford’s government started 2025 off by giving Ontario's minister of natural resources broad powers to overrule conservation authorities in development decisions. via @fatimabsyed.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/new-year-new...
Ford government can now overrule conservation authorities | The Narwhal
The Ontario government has new rules for how and when it can permit development, overstepping conservation authorities tasked with watershed protection
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January 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Doug Ford’s government started 2025 off by giving Ontario's minister of natural resources broad powers to overrule conservation authorities in development decisions. via @fatimabsyed.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/new-year-new...