Grant: Alliance Grants

Restoration practitioners and Indigenous communities have a vested interest in understanding how to promote healthy resilience ecosystems following anthropogenic disturbance. Working together our goal is to develop effective eco-restoration practices on Indigenous territories through a co-production process. Reconciliation requires new ways of conducting natural science and the rigorous application of both Indigenous knowledge and Western science is needed to support decision making. Through knowledge co-production we aim to address knowledge gaps and improve restoration practices. Specifically, we propose to develop site-specific restoration techniques through furthering our understanding of the recovery early-stage soil nutrient inputs in disturbed upland boreal forests. Our partners will also benefit from the development of effective and culturally acceptable restoration techniques, long-term economic opportunities and capacity enhancement, culturally relevant scientific education, and improved industry-community relations.