NC CASC PI James Rattling Leaf has published a new paper in ESA's Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment titled "What is Traditional Ecological Knowledge and why does it matter?". 

TEK can be viewed as “a body of observations, oral and written knowledge, practices, and beliefs that promotes environmental sustainability and the responsible stewardship of natural resources through relationships between humans and environmental systems. It is applied to phenomena across biological, physical, cultural, and spiritual systems”. I believe it is important for our ESA community to begin to explore and understand this body of knowledge and to learn how to apply it to our science in respectful, reciprocal, relational, and relevant ways. Read the full paper.