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Take a break from the world heating up and let's discuss our curiosity about cold. Human and more than human communities rely on a stable climate and cool, clean air and waters. My guest on this show is Dr. Jannine Krause. Dr. Krause is a naturopathic doctor, acupuncturist & host of The Health Fix Podcast. She specializes in helping clients boost their energy, metabolism & athletic performance with targeted cardiovascular training solutions. When not geeking out over health data she can be found experimenting in her kitchen or on an adventure in nature with her dogs & hubby, Joel.

My buddy Dr. Krause was also a big supporter of treehugger podcast since Jump way back in late 2019, so you we have her to thank for encouragement and moral support to start the show.

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The Health Fix "Ep 179: The Secret to Staying Fit & Maintaining Your Passion for Life with Brad Kerns" Podcast

Links to Susanna Søberg emphasis on just about everything winter swimming and "brown fat thermoregulation and cold-induced thermogenesis"

Found My Fitness feat. Dr. Rhonda Patrick "Benefits of Cold-Water Immersion & Cryotherapy" 9-min video

Huberman Lab "Dr Craig Heller: Using Temperature to Optimize Performance, Brain and Body Health" Podcast

The Health Fix "Ep 157: How You Can Get Probiotics from Your Environment – Michael Yadrick" Podcast

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This is the episode where we discuss our feelings of anxiety with climate change and building emotional resiliency with Dr. Leslie Davenport. She works as a climate psychology educator & consultant and lives here in Grit City. Her most recent book is called All the Feelings Under the Sun.

Leslie Davenport's website www.lesliedavenport.com and Twitter

Davenport, Leslie. 2021. All The Feelings Under The Sun. Magination Press.

Climate Psychology Alliance North America https://www.climatepsychology.us

Sarah Jaquette Ray. (2021, March 21). Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon: Is it really just code for white people wishing to hold onto their way of life or to get "back to normal?" Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-climate-anxiety

Mary Annaïse Heglar. (2021, November 7). Climate Grief Hurts Because It's Supposed To: We need to stop worrying about giving people hope and start letting people grieve. The Nation. https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-grief-hope

Amy Brady's newsletter "Burning Worlds" about the climate crisis in art and literature

Amy Westervelt's newsletter Hot Take about the climate crisis and all the ways we're talking and not talking about it.

Britt Wray's newsletter "Gen Dread" about staying sane during in the climate and wider ecological crisis

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Which tree species impacted by climate change are we getting nervous about? This is the episode where we talk about climate disruption, our anxiety & grief as witnesses to tree loss while also coming to terms with environmental change in discussion with a few members of the Forest Adaptation Network.

• Rowan Braybrook, Director of Programs for Northwest Natural Resource Group
• Jake Bentzen Biological Science Technician (Insects & Disease) Forest Service Northern & Intermountain Regions Forest Health Protection
• Joey Hulbert, Washington State University Ornamental Plant Pathology Program and Forest Health Watch
• Brandon Drucker, Restoration Ecologist with the City of Tacoma Passive Open Space Program

"Change is constant. You can't stop change, control change, or perfectly plan change. You can ride the waves of change, partner with change, and shape change. Adaptation is long term or structural change in a creature or system to account for a need for survival. Adaptation is not about being reactionary, changing without intention, or being victimized, controlled and tossed around by the inevitable changes of life. It's about shaping change and letting changes make us stronger as individual and collective bodies. How do we get relaxed and intentional in the face of change?"

• adrienne maree brown from Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation

Forest Adaptation Network https://www.nnrg.org/climateadaptation/forest-adaptation-network

Forest Health Watch https://foresthealth.org

Betzen, J. J., Ramsey, A., Omdal, D., Ettl, G. J., & Tobin, P. C. (2021). Bigleaf maple, Acer macrophyllum Pursh, decline in western Washington, USA. Forest Ecology and Management, 501, 119681.

Michelle Ma. (2021, September 30). Bigleaf maple decline tied to hotter, drier summers in Washington. UW News.

Lynda V. Mapes. (2021, July 11). Newly discovered fungus spores spurred by heat and drought are killing Seattle street trees. Seattle Times.

University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (2020, October 23). Culturally competent approaches in conservation biology: A case study presented by the Washington Cascade Fisher Reintroduction. Presented by Tara Chestnut. Streamed live and recorded on YouTube.

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Working from a foundation of feminist political ecology, Marlène Elias questions who decides the sustainability agenda and urges all of us to pay attention to the power and politics that shape the values, meanings and science driving restoration. Marlène leads gender research and gender integration at the Alliance of Biodiversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and Gender Research Coordinator for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry. Her research focuses on gendered dimensions of forest management and restoration, forest-based livelihoods, and tree resource management.

An article by Marlène and comrades wrote in Spring 2021 caught my eye that was also the theme of a special issue in the journal Ecological Restoration called Restoration for Whom, by Whom? They work from a foundation of feminist political ecology which drills down on three pillars of power relations, historical awareness and scale integration.

Elias, M., Joshi, D., & Meinzen-Dick, R. (2021). Restoration for Whom, by Whom? A Feminist Political Ecology of Restoration. Ecological Restoration, 39(1-2), 3-15.

SER Webinar: Restoration for Whom, by Whom? Exploring the Socio-political Dimensions of Restoration

Elias, M., Kandel, M., Mansourian, S., Meinzen‐Dick, R., Crossland, M., Joshi, D., ... & Winowiecki, L. (2021). Ten people-centered rules for socially sustainable ecosystem restoration. Restoration Ecology, e13574.

Arranged roughly in order from pre-intervention, design/initiation, implementation, through the monitoring, evaluation and learning phases, the ten people-centered rules are:

• Recognize diversity and interrelations among stakeholders;
• Actively engage communities as agents of change;
• Address socio-historical contexts;
• Unpack and strengthen resource tenure for marginalized groups;
• Advance equity across its multiple dimensions and scales;
• Generate multiple benefits;
• Promote an equitable distribution of costs, risks, and benefits;
• Draw on different types of evidence and knowledge;
• Question dominant discourses; and
• Practice inclusive and holistic monitoring, evaluation and learning.

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It's First Lushootseed name is čaʔadᶻac aka Oregon white oak, Garry oak, or Quercus garryana. Join us on a deep dive on the intersections of urban development, environmental racism, organizing against tree loss, and the oak restoration imaginary.

Oak savannas and prairies in the Willamette Valley-Puget Trough-Georgia Basin are one of the most endangered ecosystems in North America. In the Pacific Northwest. We can confidently say we've lost about 95 percent of the oak and prairie habitat that existed in the early to mid-1800s.

Local oak protectors have been challenging City of Lakewood on oak protections and developers on plans to build warehouses, etc. Garry oaks are part of an imperiled ecosystem. Lakewood has long settler history and lies adjacent to Joint Base Lewis McChord that has the largest remaining oak woodland in South Puget Sound.

Tacome News Tribune. Neighbors rally to save native oak trees threatened by Lakewood warehouse proposal June 22, 2021. https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article252065168.html

Lakewood Garry Oak Conservancy https://oak.eco

Portland State University Heat Island Maps for Tacoma

Earth Economics. 2020. Urban Heat Island Analysis: Tacoma, WA

Cascade Prairie Oak Partnership https://cascadiaprairieoak.org

Tacoma Tree Foundation webinar: Garry Oak Restoration w/ Brandon Drucker

Editing for this episode provided by the wonderful Katie Dunn. Brandon Drucker was essential to production.

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Absence of species we feel belong in our lives gives rise to powerful emotions. "It's the feeling of environmental lost-ness and the potential found-ness that motivates decisions about recovering locally extinct animals," says Dr. Dolly Jørgensen, historian of the environment and technology and an environmental humanities scholar. Jørgensen's current research focuses on cultural histories of animal extinction, and in 2019 she published Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age: Histories of Longing and Belonging (MIT Press). She is interested in how human technologies shape the world around us and how we come to understand what is "natural" and what is not.

Dolly Jørgensen - Professor of History, University of Stavanger, Norway dolly.jorgensenweb.net and @DollyJorgensen

Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age: Histories of Longing and Belonging (MIT Press, 2019)

Remembering Extinction research program website

Journal Environmental Humanities

Greenhouse environmental humanities research group at University of Stavanger

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Disrupted by enclosure of the commons and colonialism, people have had a relationship with trees via coppice and pollard for eons. This is the show where we discuss the role moditional "modern" + "traditional" methods play in ecological restoration. The methods we talk about on this episode are known as live staking, coppicing and pollarding.

My guest on this episode is Alex Slakie who is a restoration ecologist, botanist, and herbalist. He currently resides on the shared lands of the Cascades, Clackamas, Wasco, Multnomah, and Chinook peoples in Corbett, Oregon. Alex is the head of Flora Northwest LLC, a business that supplies willow live stakes and seeds for salmon habitat projects, sustainably harvested wild medicinal plants for herbal companies, and interesting nursery plants for home gardeners. He grows and wild-tends willow coppices and stands of medicinal plants in the western Columbia River Gorge.

Find Flora NW online at www.floranw.com and on Instagram @floranorthwest

Alex studied ecology and sustainable agriculture at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. He became deeply interested in botany and restoration ecology while doing a work-study program at the Sound Native Plants nursery and has been following that pathway ever since. 15 years later, Alex is still wild-tending willow coppices for live stake production and is passionate about this almost lost art of forest management.

On a book recommendation from Alex, I picked up William Bryant Logan's Sproutlands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees. Logan explains it by saying "From ten millennia to about two hundred years ago, every person in every forested part of the world would have known exactly what we mean by "coppice and pollard." The idea is simple: when you break, burn or cut low the trunks of almost any leafy tree or shrub, it will sprout again. New branches will emerge from behind the bases, either from buds that were dormant, waiting for their cue to grow, or from twigs newly formed by the cambium."

Enclosure has a role to play in this story too. Over the course of several centuries, much of Europe's land was privatized. That is to say taken out of some form of collective ownership and management known as the "commons" and handed over to individuals = turned into capital. Grippingly, William Bryant Logan holds space for this in his Sproutlands book. He depicts how much of the English commons was in coppice and pollard when the crown and wealthy landowners began to enclose lands as early as the 14th century. Of course, this system was exported around the world in a variety of forms of colonialism. With it, we have lost some of art, culture and political ecology of coppice and pollard as well as the relationship we had with the land.

A Short History of Enclosure in Britain in The Land: An Occasional Magazine about Land Rights. Summer 2009

The Tragedy of the Tragedy of the Commons by Matto Mildenberger in Scientific American April 23, 2019

Editing for this episode provided by the wonderful Katie Dunn

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Candace Fujikane leads us through Kanaka Maoli cartographies that articulates Indigenous ancestral knowledges via moʻolelo (historical stories), oli (chants), and mele (songs). Engaging in the art of kilo, observing laws of the natural order is based on longtime observation and recording in relationships with the almost half a million akua. The akua are the elemental forms, who guide the people in their daily lives and embody the lands, seas, and skies. Professor Fuijikane asserts, "abundance is expressed out of Kanaka Maoli restoration projects, as practitioners assert their capacity to determine their own decolonial futures…."

Candace Fujikane is Professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi. She received her PhD from UC Berkeley in 1996, and she teaches courses on Hawaiʻi literatures, Asian American literatures, and settler colonial and Indigenous politics. In 2000, she co-edited a special issue of Amerasia Journal entitled Whose Vision? Asian Settler Colonialism in Hawaiʻi, and that issue was expanded in 2008 into Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawaiʻi. She has stood for Mauna a Wākea since 2011, testifying to protect the sacred mountain and standing on the frontlines against law enforcement in 2019. Just this year, she has published a new book, Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawaiʻi.

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https://hawaii.academia.edu/CandaceFujikane

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Forest gardens look and feel different than the forests farther from home or what one normally encounters on the NW Coast. Professor Chelsey Armstrong and her colleagues refer to these forests as novel ecosystems that have no natural analog - composed of communities of species that result from human agency, ecosystem engineering and the introduction of wildcrafted species from nearby regions. While Western science is catching up about these ecosystems, the original and contemporary Indigenous scientists have always known these forests have existed.

Professor Chelsey Armstrong is a historical ecologist and archaeologist based out of Ts'msyen Laxyuup in northwestern British Columbia. She studies human land-use in the past and how those dynamics relate to the present — particularly towards Indigenous sovereignty and socially informed environmental justice and reclamation. Chelsey is assistant professor and director of the Historical and Ethnoecological Research (HER Lab) in Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University.

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Armstrong, C. G., Miller, J., McAlvay, A., Ritchie, P. M., & Lepofsky, D. (2021). Historical Indigenous Land-Use Explains Plant Functional Trait Diversity. Ecology and Society, 26(2).

Historical and Ethnoecological Research (HER) Lab> https://www.chelseygeralda.com/

Indigenous Peoples in British Columbia Tended 'Forest Gardens' from Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/indigenous-peoples-british-columbia-tended-forest-gardens-180977617/

'Forest gardens' show how Native land stewardship can outdo nature from National Geographic https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/forest-gardens-show-how-native-land-stewardship-can-outdo-nature

Unearthing the Work of Indigenous Master Horticulturalists from The Tyee https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/04/28/Unearthing-Work-Indigenous-Master-Horticulturalists/

'Forest gardens' planted by Canada's Indigenous people before the 1800s still benefit ecosystems today from Popular Science https://www.popsci.com/story/environment/indigenous-forest-gardens/

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I fortuitously got mixed up with this group called Just Language. Christopher Widmaier, Danielle Bunch, Lisa Fink and Celeste Williams interrogate our language around invasive species. Join in the dialogue and effort to make our conservation language more inclusive and purge terms like "invasive" and "alien" that have racist, prejudiced and xenophobic implications. Clayton County Water Authority and Green Collar Collaborations make this project possible.

Just Language on Green Collar Collaborations https://greencollarcollaborations.com/index.php/just-language-in-ecology-education/. The following organizations, businesses, and individuals have provided resources to make this project possible.

Clayton County Water Authority

Green Collar Collaborations

Brainstorm found here from Just Language Group https://padlet.com/edb343/1w8mhv0r0rcahrix

Inglis, M. I. (2020). Wildlife Ethics and Practice: Why We Need to Change the Way We Talk About 'Invasive Species'. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 1-15.

Nicholas J. Reo & Laura A. Ogden (2018) "Anishnaabe Aki: An Indigenous Perspective on the Global Threat of Invasive Species" Sustainability Science

Warren, C. R. (2007). Perspectives on the alien 'versus native' species debate: a critique of concepts, language and practice. Progress in Human Geography, 31(4), 427-446.

2021 King County Noxious Weed List is official (name changes) https://kingcountyweeds.com/2021/02/18/2021-king-county-noxious-weed-list-is-official/

Stop AAPI Hate https://stopaapihate.org/

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