Advancing Wildlife Policy of Eastern Timber Wolves and Lake Sturgeon through Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Date
2022-03-24
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Sustainability
Abstract
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is becoming more prominent in wildlife management decisions and policy making. The cooperation of TEK and Western science paradigms have been beneficial for conserving our natural resources and wildlife populations. However, there are still concerns with accepting TEK as part of wildlife management, policy, and regulations. With increasing challenges to wildlife conservation, it is vital to implement Indigenous TEK to form more robust and holistic approaches to wildlife management. Here, we present two case studies in the upper Midwest region of the United States involving the Ojibwe tribe that show the importance of TEK collaboration and how that knowledge can be used for the betterment of ecologically sensitive species—lake sturgeon and eastern timber wolves.
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This article was originally published in Sustainability. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14073859. Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Keywords
conservation, indigenous, lake sturgeon, management, Ojibwe, policy, tribal ecological knowledge, wildlife, wolves, life on land
Citation
Schley, Hannah L., Ilene F. West, and Christopher K. Williams. 2022. "Advancing Wildlife Policy of Eastern Timber Wolves and Lake Sturgeon through Traditional Ecological Knowledge" Sustainability 14, no. 7: 3859. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14073859