1/ @UGAWarnell #WildlifeWednesday

Indigenous groups of the Lower 48, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada & México are the largest landowners of habitat on the continent! Yet we never talk about how to interact with these groups on natural resource issues. We hope this helps (read on)!

2/ Thus, its my pleasure to introduce our new book chapter "Managing North American Indigenous People's Wildlife Resources". This is the first time this topic has been covered in The Wildlife Techniques Manual (now 8th Ed.).

3/ In this chapter, we attempt to introduce the major legal, cultural, and geographic distinctions among North America’s indigenous groups and how those distinctions influence their approaches to natural resource management.

This includes unique histories and stories!

4/ Chapter scope includes indigenous groups of the contiguous USA, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, and México.

Historical map from: https://native-land.ca/ 

5/ We close with info on Traditional Ecological Knowledge due to its importance to indigenous groups and its role in contemporary and future natural resource management.

6/ For those instructors out there, we also include an incredible PowerPoint that can be adapted as you build lectures that inform the next generation of wildlife managers!

7/ And for those outside the wildlife field, The Wildlife Techniques Manual was originally published in 1960. Today is it viewed as the cornerstone text for the professional wildlife biologist. This new edition was just released on July 28th. https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/wildlife-techniques-manual