Fall 2024 Distinguished Ethnobiology Speaker Chelsey Geralda Armstrong

Where People, History, and Ecology Meet: Perspectives on Indigenous Forest Management in the Pacific Northwest

In collaboration with the Historical-Ecological Research (HER) Lab, Dr. Armstrong conducts historical-ecological research in northern Ts'msyen and Gitxsan territories in British Columbia, focusing on traditional resource and environmental management. The HER Lab studies human-landscape interactions in the past and how those dynamics relate to the present. The goal of the HER Lab is to understand the role of history in shaping the structure and function of ecosystems and to interrogate the role of colonialism and settler colonial dynamics within environmental and heritage management policy