Angie Reed has served as the Water Resources Planner for Penobscot Nation since 2004. Her contributions include field work, reports, all aspects of digital data management, training tribal environmental professionals, developing outreach materials, activity development for Indian Island School students, and conducting outreach to many non-Native schools from elementary to graduate level. Angie has been working with Native Nations since leaving graduate school in 1998, primarily in Wabanaki homelands but also all across Turtle Island.  

Dan Kuznierz has been with the Water Program since 1993, overseeing the protection of Penobscot territory waters and tribal uses of those waters. He has developed a watershed-wide water quality monitoring program with more than 95 weekly-sampling locations, set up a laboratory, and conducted investigations of toxic contaminants (including dioxins, furans, PCBs and mercury), and their impact on the aquatic environment.

The wild foods safety series resources that we talked about in our conversation can be found at  https://www.penobscotnation.org/departments/department-of-natural-resources/water-n%c9%99pi-resources/eating-wild-foods-safely/.  

Our conversation was recorded in May 2024.

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