Rivercane Recovery for Tribal Practices Handout

Rivercane Recovery to Support Tribal Cultural Practices CART Case Study Handout

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Tribal Nations Technical Center of Expertise (TNTCX), University of Alabama Water Institute, and others created the Rivercane Restoration Alliance (RRA) to combine Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Western science to achieve successful rivercane recovery across the southeastern United States. Through the TNTCX, the USACE has been able to support the recovery of rivercane (Arundinaria gigantea), one of many cultural keystone species.

Read the full case study here: https://www.fws.gov/project/rivercane-recovery-tribal-practices

 

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