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.