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Why Traditional Ecological Observations Are Dismissed as Anecdotal

The watershed restoration project wants community input but they dismiss our family's five-generation memory of how this creek used to behave as anecdotal

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Institutional bias toward recent data overlooks the long-term perspective that traditional knowledge provides.

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“Where Are You with Traditional Ecological Knowledge?”

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