In 2020, IEG began working with Dena Cho Environmental and Remediation Inc. and CIRNAC on the revegetation program at the Faro Mine, located on Kaska traditional territory in south-central Yukon.…

IEG has spent almost a decade, and substantial effort, developing quantitative approaches to ecohydrological analysis, reclamation-cover design, and projection of post-closure ecosystems on mining landscapes. The culmination of this work…

IEG staff and colleagues worked with Nlaka’pamux communities and Teck’s Highland Valley Copper mine in south-central British Columbia to develop and implement a study to examine the effects of mine…

Research published in Science of the Total Environment explores potential outcomes of development of coal mines in the Oldman River Basin of southwest Alberta on selenium concentrations in receiving environments…

Two exciting opportunities we would like to share include: 1) Digital Health Initiative The Digital Health Initiative was developed by Kitatipithitamak Mithwayawin. The initiative aims to improve access to and…

A paper published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution presents a modeling study exploring long-term bird population responses in northeastern Alberta (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2020.00252/full). IEG ecologist Matt Carlson, one of the paper's…

According to a report by the Council of Canadian Academies expert panel on integrated natural resource management (INRM), conventional methods of natural resource management haven’t kept pace with the…

A few weeks ago, I was walking my dog along the rugged Victoria shoreline when I saw some City of Victoria employees working on an eroded slope just up from…

In January, we travelled to Taiwan to share about some of the research approaches and tools, such as ALCES, that we use in our work with Indigenous communities in Canada...

In honour of Secwepemc elder Mary Thomas A recent announcement of the release of Secwepemc People and Plants: Research Papers in Shuswap Ethnobotany, caused me to reflect on the laughter…

Out with the old and in with the new, they say. Which seems a poor model for science and for wisdom, as presumably we need to learn from some of…

When I was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia, I became interested in exploring ways of communicating science to a wide audience. Scientific information shouldn’t be exclusive…

In June I was on Maui, where I was working with ALCES and Sam Aruch. On my trip, and in reflecting since my return, I was struck by the obvious…