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Underground seed banks, passive restoration, and ecological memory - these elements are crucial in understanding and facilitating natural recovery processes in ecosystems.

We'll explore how leveraging underground seed banks, which contain dormant seeds waiting for the right conditions to germinate, can support native plant regeneration. This approach is relational, often less expensive, and informs a long-range view. It also relies on the ecological memory, which refers to an ecosystem's ability to retain information about past states and disturbances, aiding its recovery and resilience.

Topics Covered:

• Importance of underground seed banks in restoration
• Differences between passive and active restoration
• Concept and significance of ecological memory
• Examples of natural regeneration strategies

Resources:

High Country News article: "Underground seed banks hold promise for ecological restoration" by Josephine Woolington

Read more about ecological memory for yourself at Google Scholar

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This episode delves into the integration of artificial intelligence within the field of ecological restoration. Covering a broad spectrum from the practical to the philosophical, the conversation explores the potential for AI to reshape restoration practices, the ethical considerations at play, and the importance of balancing technological advancement with traditional ecological knowledge. Through personal anecdotes, professional experiences, and a look towards the future, the guests offer a comprehensive exploration of how AI is shaping the landscape of ecological restoration and what that means for the environment and society.

Episode Segments

1. Introducing the Experts

Meet Sam Woodrich, a Ph.D. student at Oregon State University, and Dr. Timothy Pape, a postdoctoral research associate at Bowling Green State University. Both bring a wealth of knowledge in environmental and social sciences and share their insights on AI in ecological restoration.

Woodrich, Samuel T., and Timothy Pape. "Ecological restoration and artificial intelligence: whose values inform a project?." Restoration Ecology (2024): e14128.

2. Exploring AI in Ecological Restoration

An overview of how AI is currently being utilized in ecological restoration projects. This segment covers practical applications, from predictive modeling to species identification.

3. Bridging the Gap: AI Tools as Assistants

Discussion on AI tools such as the Merlin Bird ID app and iNaturalist, and how they assist in ecological monitoring and data collection. The segment emphasizes the collaborative potential between AI and human expertise.

4. Debating AI's Role and Impact

A critical look at the limitations and biases of AI in ecological restoration. This segment explores the ethical considerations and the need for integrating traditional ecological knowledge with AI-driven methods.

5. Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe?

An exploration of AI’s potential benefits and risks. The experts discuss whether AI can be a reliable partner in restoration efforts or if it poses significant challenges that need to be carefully managed.

6. Looking to the Future: AI, Restoration, and Beyond

Insights into future advancements in AI technology and their potential impact on ecological restoration. The segment highlights the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and adaptive management in leveraging AI for sustainable outcomes.

7. Wrapping Up and Rapid Fire Questions

A fun and engaging wrap-up segment where the experts answer rapid-fire questions, sharing personal anecdotes and their visions for the future of AI in ecological restoration.

Read more for yourself at  Google Scholar. A growing number of articles provide an overview of the current state and potential of AI in ecological restoration, addressing both the technical capabilities and the ethical considerations involved. 

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Music from the episode is Lish Grooves

Dr. Elies Gornish is an early career leader in the fields of arid land restoration and weed management and has published over 60 papers. Recently, she just self-published “A Kids Guide to Ecological Restoration,” what she believes is the first children’s book on ecological restoration. Gornish is a Cooperative Extension Specialist in Ecological Restoration at the University of Arizona. The Gornish Lab focuses on developing practical strategies for effective restoration of dry land systems in the Southwest. She is also passionate about STEM inclusion and in 2018 become the Director of UA GALS (Girls on outdoor Adventure for Leadership and Science). This new program focuses on providing science learning and leadership opportunities to traditionally underserved female high school students through backcountry programming.

Elise Gornish profile | Gornish Lab | twitter

A Kids Guide to Ecological Restoration

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Laura J. Martin is a historian and ecologist who studies how people shape the habitats of other species. She is author of Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration. One will also find articles of hers in journals such as Environmental History and Science as well as featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times. She is currently an environmental studies professor at Williams College and now with the publication of Wild by Design in the rearview mirror, Laura is not digging into a global history of hormonal herbicides.

Laura builds on scholarship that meets at the intersection of environmental history and science and technology studies. This blending of the sciences and the humanities s so essential. Wild by Design provides this crosswalk between various aspects of restoration.

Laura J. Martin | historian and ecologist who studies how people shape the habitats of other species

Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration is available from your local bookseller | Indiebound | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

“The Women Who Saved Wildflowers,” Sierra Magazine, June 2, 2022

"Earth Day is a Chance to Win the Messaging War Against Polluters," The Washington Post, April 23, 2022

“Is Humanity Doomed? That Depends On Us,” Los Angeles Times, 28 March 2022

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My guest on this show is mother and grandmother, Renate Rain. She is the convener and healer behind the Puget Sound Plungers and certified Deliberate Cold Exposure guide. Renate described herself as just a person looking for relief from chronic pain problem when she slipped into the cool waters of Puget Sound. Alleviating pain came along with an ever-growing community she didn't even know she needed.

What is Puget Sound and how cool is it? Puget Sound is a “sound” of the Pacific Northwest, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and part of the Salish Sea. The cool measurement is an average annual temperature of about 10° C (50° F). Cool, clean water is the lifeblood of this complex estuarine system of interconnected marine waterways and basins, with myriad connections to the open Pacific Ocean.

Puget Sound Plungers on Facebook and Instagram

Puget Sound Institute Salish Sea | Encyclopedia of Puget Sound

Huberman Lab (2022). Using Deliberate Cold Exposure for Health and Performance. Podcast and YouTube. April 4.

Quantum Biology Collective https://www.quantumbiologycollective.org/

Morozko Forge https://www.morozkoforge.com/

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This is the episode where we discuss Indigenous Science with Binnizá & Maya Ch’orti’ scholar Dr. Jessica Hernandez. Dr. Hernandez is a transnational Indigenous scholar, scientist, and community advocate based in the Pacific Northwest. Her work is grounded in her Indigenous cultures and ways of knowing with a background that ranges from marine sciences, land restoration, environmental physics and justice.

Currently, one can find her completing a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Washington Bothell, a Climate Justice Policy Strategist at the International Mayan League and the Environmental Justice Representative on the City of Seattle’s Urban Forestry Commission.

Dr. Hernandez has been finding her way in academia and academy hasn’t always embraced her ways of knowing and engaging with Western science. She has published some inspiring articles and is recent author of Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes with Indigenous Science. She weaves powerful personal stories and family histories that expand our conception of Indigeneity while centering ecofeminist voices of women, non-binary relationships and protectors of lands and waters.​ It also blends sharp and cogent critiques of western conservationism while also offering Indigenous models informed by case studies and a framework that elevates Indigenous leadership. Working at the nexus of climate science and justice Jessica tells us she is in the process of writing her second book, Growing Papaya Trees: Nurturing Indigenous Roots of Climate.

Our conversation wanders from talking about her journey to becoming a scientist, supporting Indigenous-led movements that seek self-determination and autonomy, her current research at the intersection of energy and equity, specifically climate science to climate refugees. We also look back at efforts of hers in Seattle that informed her dissertation about Indigenizing Restoration in urban parks.

Doctora Nature Website, Instagram and Twitter  

Native Land is an app to help map Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages https://native-land.ca

Hernandez, J. (2022) Fresh Banana Leaves - Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science- North Atlantic Books.

Hernandez, J., Meisner, J., Bardosh, K., & Rabinowitz, P. (2022). Prevent pandemics and halt climate change? Strengthen land rights for Indigenous peoples. The Lancet Planetary Health, 6(5), e381-e382.

Hernandez, J., & Vogt, K. A. (2020). Indigenizing Restoration: Indigenous Lands before Urban Parks. Human biology, 92(1), 37-44.

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treehugger has bounced from Julia Plevin’s offer “what message might invasive species have to share for you” to the Just Language invitation to pay more respect and humility to them. Now Jenny Liou leads us through a critical rethinking of invasive species. This is the episode where we tell shories about identity/politics, our entanglement with weeds, the invasive vs. native ideology and more.

Jenny Liou is an English professor at Pierce College and an avid naturalist and ecological restorationist. She likes thinking and writing about bodies – bodies of thought, the mineral body of the loess-covered plains where she grew up, bodies of water – the rivers along whose banks she has explored the Pacific Northwest and her family’s history in China, the body of the Pacific which divides her from that part of her family. She lives and writes near that ocean in Tacoma, Washington.

“Am I an Invasive Species?” in Hight Country News from July 9, 2020

Washington Native Plant Society South Sound Chapter – “The Invasion that Sustains Us: Himalayan Blackberries and Invasive and National Discourses in Native Plant Conservation” https://www.wnps.org/events/1527

Samples of Jenny’s work and more on her website https://www.jennyhwayuliou.com

Muscle Memory from Kaya Press https://kaya.com/authors/jenny-liou

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Dr. Laura Smith is a geographer at the University of Exeter, U.K. She works across cultural geography and the environmental humanities, with research interests in ecological restoration and rewilding, the history and conservation of U.S. public lands, national parks, American literature, and environmental protest and activism.

Exeter University Profile and Twitter

Her first book, Ecological Restoration and the U.S. Nature and Environmental Writing Tradition: A Rewilding of American Letters, was published earlier this year, on the American environmental writers Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and Edward Abbey, looking at how the connections between writers and places, and the texts produced, have helped shape ecological restoration programs. Palgrave Macmillan Amazon.com Barnes & Noble

Dr Smith takes us on an exploration of the entanglements between these famed writers and the places they focused they’re writing on presented in her own storying—restorying—restoring framework on early American environmental literature. From her unique perspective, Dr. Smith lays out an intricate human geography that she says lead to and continues to impart “literary interventions in restoration politics.” She shows us how these early writings have been used and recycled far and wide by conservationists, activities, policymakers to defend U.S. public lands and ideas about wilderness, restoration and rewilding. The takeaway is that we should pay attention to environmental writing, because it has a powerful role in guiding references for restoration, practice on the ground or contributing to policy debates. These are the legends baked into our origin stories, ethical intentions, organizational missions and politics.

This discussion is an opportunity to crack those letters open again to ponder where we came from collectively and reinvigorate our imaginations about what exactly we are conserving and with whom we are comrades in restoration.

Walden Woods Project: https://www.walden.org 

Restore Hetch Hetchy: https://hetchhetchy.org 

Aldo Leopold Foundation: https://www.aldoleopold.org 

Friends of the Everglades: https://www.everglades.org 

Glen Canyon Institute: https://www.glencanyon.org 

Penguin Green Ideas book series: https://www.penguin.co.uk/series/grnidea/green-ideas.html

Eden Project:  https://www.edenproject.com

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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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