Ethical Study of Tribal Forests

The community wants to prioritize cultural and spiritual connections to the land within the Navajo Nation forest department. Jaime Yazzie is trying to make that happen. As a scientific analyst with the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, Yazzie studies Tribal forests, with an emphasis on kinship, harmony and balance even though it’s a real struggle to connect those ideas directly to a management objective, or a management strategy.

This episode of Science Moab was made possible by a Stem Action Grant from the Society for Science.

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The Necessity of Diversity

There are lots of different forms of knowledge, from place-based, community knowledge to science in laboratories. When this wide diversity of understanding isn’t listened to or valued, we all lose out. Here, Science Moab speaks with Dr. Sabah Ul-Hasan, who grew up near the Great Salt Lake, about their experience as a scientist studying bioinformatics and how bringing inclusive understandings into science is essential to understanding the world and making it a better place.



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