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Reciprocity, not extraction: Centering an Indigenous approach to forestry

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Reciprocity, not extraction: Centering an Indigenous approach to forestry
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Forester and scientist Suzanne Simard is well known for her landmark 1997 paper, which demonstrated that two distinct species of trees could share resources. At the time, it turned traditional Western forestry thinking on its head. Instead of the Darwinian view of trees as being in competition with each other, it introduced the idea that these trees may actually help each other, and that industrial logging practices may be missing the forest for the trees. In recent years, Simard has been advoca

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