…and their impact on landscapes. And I'm going to draw on an example that I learned from my close colleague, Dr. Theresa Ryan, Simhayatsk, She's a Tsimshian woman who's a fishery scientist, salmon scientist, and she's taught me so much, but she told me…

…i wrote the book well i have You know, I have a post, or actually she's my research associate now, she's Tsimshian Nation, Theresa Ryan, and what we're doing is we're going to reconstruct some of these ancient stone, tidal stone traps to try to find out…

…about 2014, I had the opportunity to, it was just to hire a postdoc who was Tsimshian nation. Her name is Dr. Theresa Ryan. Her Tsimshian name is Tsimhiatsk, which means real copper. And we just started talking and she was telling me about her research…

…so right now, as an ecologist, I started learning about Indigenous knowledge systems about a decade ago because I had a colleague, Theresa Ryan, who taught me so much and changed my life, really. and all the struggles I'd had in the forest industry of,…

…don't know a lot of detail about it, but what we are doing, I mean, this is an interesting study. My research associate, Theresa Ryan, who is a Tsimshian woman, who's a salmon fishery scientist, what we're doing to try and get a handle on this question…

…in our Aboriginal communities. And I come back to that because my postdoc at the time, now she's a professor at UBC, Dr. Theresa Ryan, is also a cedar basket weaver. And we were one day out in the woods walking and talking. looking for cedar trees and…

…if you're in a Western red cedar forest on the coast of British Columbia, like this picture on the left by Dr. Theresa Ryan, who I work with closely, she's a Tsimshian native woman. It doesn't, whether you're in the Amazon rainforest, or if you're in…

…you look back. After doing my work for many years, I started working with a Tsimshian fishery scientist. Her name is Dr. Theresa Ryan. She showed me a lot of written history of actually the Coast Salish people. not just the Coast Salish, but also the…

…Tlingit, they passively fished for salmon. They used a number of technologies, but one is the tidal stone traps. I mentioned Dr. Theresa Ryan, who works with me, she's Tsimshian, and she's doing this study on these tidal stone traps. So the way the tidal…

…ways of knowing. And so, you know, we've been studying these rivers as well. And my graduate students and my postdoc, Dr. Theresa Ryan, Simhiatska of the Tsimshian Nation, were trying to look at the role that salmon play in the forest more directly. And…

…the oldest living thing in Vancouver, and I've obsessively hunted for it on several occasions with no luck. Would you or Dr. Theresa Ryan, who took the photo, be able to pinpoint where this treasure is located? I can. So you know where the hollow tree…

…of the Montaguila Nation, Chief David Knox of the Coahuila Nation. I'm working with the Haltzik Nation, the Haida, Dr. Theresa Ryan of the Tsimshian Nation, the Kwaika Nation. And we're trying ways to protect old trees, particularly cedar trees, because the…

…those clear cuts that I showed you at the beginning. So this fungal network below ground, my colleague, My good friend, Dr. Theresa Ryan, who is in the audience today, who is a salmon fishery scientist of the Tsimshian Nation, brought to my attention the…

…coast of North America, British Columbia, which is actually part of the Pacific Rim for us, which my close colleague Dr. Theresa Ryan of the Tsimshian Nation, who is a fishery scientist, calls the salmon forest coast. All the way from Santa Barbara in…

…So I just want to talk a little bit about this linkage to other creatures in the forest. So my colleague, Dr. Theresa Ryan, who I mentioned is a salmon fishery scientist, We started working with the Heiltsuk nation up in Bella Bella, and we were…

…were Alan Narok, my new doctoral student who would be investigating the patterns of fungal networks, and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Theresa Ryan, or Simhayetsk, of the Tsimshian Nation, the people of the Skeena to the north. Teresa is a traditional cedar basket…

…certain berries to clear trade routes. They had incredibly sophisticated trade routes. The Ulican is one that my research associate, Dr. Theresa Ryan, studied in her doctoral. She's a Tsimshian nation. And the Ulican is a grease of fish that they used for…

…I want to move on. Okay, the story gets more and more interesting as we go. So I work very closely with Dr. Theresa Ryan. She's Tsimshian. So her nation is in the Prince Rupert area. She's of the Gitlan clan, and she's a salmon fishery scientist. And…