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2 | RCPNG Networking Map | Networking tool for the 2022 Gathering | Are you interested in networking with other RCP Gathering participants? Are there skills you’d like to develop further? Do you have skills you would like to share with others? Fill out this form to add yourself to the Networking map and connect with other participants. Explore the map below to learn more about other conservation peers in your region. | Highstead | Map lives here Form to be added to the map lives here | ||
3 | Mentimeter Survey Results | PDF of Survy Results | Contains answers to survey questions during the Gathering Questions included: - What first thoughts did you have from the key note and your interactions? - What is one idea or thought you shared in your discussion that you want to hang on to and think about more? - What themes stood out for you from the two relationship examples? - How might you begin to build potential new relatioships or deepen current relationships that you have started? - Based on what you heard--what pithy advice would you give yourself or others about a step to take to build more connections in your community? - What headline can you share with the Gathering about your own current stories of collaboration for climate justice, land justice and resilience? - What is one step you will take away after this Gathering to apply what you have learned from the discussion today? | Highstead | https://wildlandsandwoodlands.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/RCP-Network-Gathering-Nov-2022-menti-results.pdf | ||
4 | Northeast Bird Habitat Conservation Initiative Mapping Tool | Conservation Tool | This Northeast Bird Habitat Conservation Initiative (NBHCI) Mapping Tool is an Easy-to-use, interactive map showcasing eBird Status & Trends (S&T) data for 43 priority bird species in five different habitat types (forest, shrub/young forest, coast/shoreline, grassland, and wetland/marsh as GIS data layers. The tool was designed to aid Regional Conservation Partnerships, land trusts, and conservation partners in strategic land planning and bird habitat conservation efforts. | Northeast Bird Habitat Conservation Initiative (NBHCI) | Mapping Tool Lives here | Sara Barker | |
5 | The illusion of preservation: a global environmental argument for the local production of natural resources | Paper | The United States (US) and other affluent countries consume vast quantities of global natural resources, but contribute proportionately less to the extraction of many raw materials. This imbalance is due, in part, to domestic policies intended to protect the environment. Ironically, developed nations are often better equipped to extract resources in an environmentally prudent manner than the major suppliers. Thus, although citizens of affluent countries may imagine that preservationist domestic policies are conserving resources and protecting nature, heavy consumption rates necessitate resource extraction elsewhere and oftentimes under weak environmental oversight. A major consequence of this illusion of natural resource preservation is greater global environmental degrada- tion than would arise if consumption were reduced and a large portion of production was shared by affluent countries. This paper considers some implications of the consumption, management and conservation of forests and wood at a local and global scale. | Mary M. Berlik David B. Kittredge David R. Foster | https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Berlik_JBiogeography_2002.pdf | Brian Donahue | |
6 | National Source Water Collaborative | Website | Learning Exchange webinars, link to map of collaborative groups across the country working to protect drinking water sources - see “Collaboratives Near You.” You can sign up for updates. Specifically you can identify your group whose work is protecting drinking water sources. | https://www.sourcewatercollaborative.org | Sylvia Malm | sourcewatercollaborative.org or sylvia.malm2015@gmail.com | |
7 | Give nature a seat at the governing table | Article | Article on the rights of nature | https://hightowerlowdown.org/article/give-nature-a-seat-at-the-governing-table-rights-of-nature/ | Russ Cohen | ||
8 | Maine's solution to beach barriers? Buying land for public use | NPR story/Article | It talked about how the State of Maine is doing a terrific job buying coastal land so that ANYONE can access coastal lands/beaches. They compared it with MA and the minimal acquisition of coastal land beach access. It was very powerful. | Chris Burrell | https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2022/11/16/maines-solution-to-beach-barriers-buying-land-for-public-use | Kira Jacobs | |
9 | Barriers at the Beach: State law and town rules keep most of Mass. shoreline off-limits | NPR story/Article | Exclusionary beach access | Chris Burrell | https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2022/05/23/barriers-at-the-beach-state-law-and-town-rules-keep-most-of-mass-shoreline-off-limits | Rebecca Shoer | |
10 | Greening In Place | Website | Greening In Place presents a framework for equitable green development to inform the efforts of park agencies, conservation authorities, and community advocates as they work to promote healthy, sustainable, and inclusive green development. | https://www.greeninginplace.com/ | Ingrid Haeckel | ||
11 | Black Indigenous, and People of Color in Environmental and Climate Justice: a Databse of Leaders | Website Database | a database of BIPOC leaders in environmental & climate justice | https://bipocinecj.org | Stefanie Covino | ||
12 | Alderbrook Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary | Website | Mount Grace's Alderbrook Sanctuary in Northfield MA, which has wonderful interpretive panels were the content was largely contributed by indigenous people | https://www.mountgrace.org/visit/conserved/alderbrook-meadows-wildlife-sanctuary | Russ Cohen | ||
13 | Odanak First Nation denounces Vt. state-recognized Abenaki tribes as 'Pretendian' | Vermont Public Radio Story | Hundreds attended the presentation, both in person and over a livestream. Titled “Beyond Borders: Unheard Abenaki Voices from the Odanak First Nation,” it called attention to a phenomenon known as “Pretendians,” which scholars say is widespread in Canada as well as the U.S., including in Vermont and New Hampshire. | Elodie Reed Mitch Wertlieb Karen Anderson | https://www.vermontpublic.org/vpr-news/2022-05-05/odanak-first-nation-denounces-vt-state-recognized-abenaki-tribes-as-pretendian | Cliff Sheehan | |
14 | Black Lives, Native Lands, & White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England | Book | Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area's indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution, enslaved people comprised only about 4 percent of the population, but slavery had become instrumental to the region's economy and had shaped its cultural traditions. This story of slavery in New England has been little told. In this concise yet comprehensive history, Jared Ross Hardesty focuses on the individual stories of enslaved people, bringing their experiences to life. He also explores larger issues such as the importance of slavery to the colonization of the region and to agriculture and industry, New England's deep connections to Caribbean plantation societies, and the significance of emancipation movements in the era of the American Revolution. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of New England. | Jared Hardesty | https://www.umasspress.com/9781625344571/black-lives-native-lands-white-worlds/ | Dr. Neenah Estrella-Luna | |
15 | Memory Lands | Book | Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip’s War, providing an alternative to Pilgrim-centric narratives that have conventionally dominated the histories of colonial New England. DeLucia grounds her study of one of the most devastating conflicts between Native Americans and European settlers in early America in five specific places that were directly affected by the crisis, spanning the Northeast as well as the Atlantic world. She examines the war’s effects on the everyday lives and collective mentalities of the region’s diverse Native and Euro-American communities over the course of several centuries, focusing on persistent struggles over land and water, sovereignty, resistance, cultural memory, and intercultural interactions. An enlightening work that draws from oral traditions, archival traces, material and visual culture, archaeology, literature, and environmental studies, this study reassesses the nature and enduring legacies of a watershed historical event. | Christine DeLucia | https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248388/memory-lands/ | Dr. Neenah Estrella-Luna | |
16 | Indigenous Peoples History of the US | Book | Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.” Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | http://www.beacon.org/An-Indigenous-Peoples-History-of-the-United-States-P1164.aspx | Dr. Neenah Estrella-Luna | |
17 | Jean O'Brien | Author Page | Dr. O'Brien is a professor at the University of Minnisota specializing in State and Federal Recognition, Native American and Indigenous Studies, U.S. colonial history, and Settler Colonialism. She has publised a number of books on these subjects | Jean O'Brien | https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/obrie002#publications | Clarisse Hart | |
18 | Braiding Sweetgrass | Book | As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert). Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return. | Robin Wall Kimmerer | https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass | Sarah Winterton | |
19 | Opportunities to Invest in Community Resilience for COVID and Climate | A Report to the Barr Foundation | The reality that COVID-19 was a pandemic became clear by mid-March 2020. Immediately, grassroots, community-led groups organized mutual aid and other COVID response efforts to bridge the gaps created by lack of preparedness as well as inadequate response on the part of the state and federal governments. The Barr Foundation is interested in learning how these community based responses were organized, how they operated, and what the network ecology looked like in Boston, Chelsea, and Revere. The overall goal is to understand how community-focused and community-led responses like these can be built upon and reinforced to support equity-centered climate resilience. | Neenah Estrella-Luna Penn Loh | https://barrfdn.issuelab.org/resource/opportunities-to-invest-in-community-resilience-for-covid-and-climate.html | Dr. Neenah Estrella-Luna | |
20 | The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations | Book | Thirty years ago, in Wabanaki territory – a region encompassing the state of Maine and the Canadian Maritimes – a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals came together to explore some of the most pressing questions at the heart of Truth and Healing efforts in the United States and Canada. Meeting over several years in long-weekend gatherings, in a Wabanaki-led traditional Council format, assumptions were challenged, perspectives upended, and stereotypes shattered. Alliances and friendships were formed that endure to this day. The Gatherings tells the moving story of these meetings in the words of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants. Reuniting to reflect on how their lives were changed by their experiences and how they continue to be impacted by them, the participants share the valuable lessons they learned and the actions they were motivated to take as a result. The many voices represented in The Gatherings offer insights and strategies that can inform change at the individual, group, and systems levels. | Shirley N. Hager Mawopiyane | https://www.thegatheringsbook.comm | Clarisse Hart | |
21 | Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England (2010, University of Minnesota Press) | Book | Tracing the origins of the persistent myth of the vanishing Indian Firsting and Lasting argues that local histories became a primary means by which European Americans asserted their own modernity while denying it to Indian peoples. Drawing on more than six hundred local histories from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, Jean M. O’Brien explores how these narratives inculcated the myth of Indian extinction, a myth that has stubbornly remained in the American consciousness. | Jean O'Brien | https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/firsting-and-lasting | Alice Ingerson | |
22 | Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790 (2003, University of Nebraska Press) | Book | Despite popular belief, Native peoples did not simply disappear from colonial New England as the English extended their domination in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Rather, the Native peoples in such places as Natick, Massachusetts, creatively resisted colonialism, defended their lands, and rebuilt kin networks and community through the strategic use of English cultural practices and institutions. So why did New England settlers believe that the Native peoples had vanished? In this thoroughly researched and astutely argued study, historian Jean M. O’Brien reveals that, in the late eighteenth century, the Natick tribe experienced a process of “dispossession by degrees,” which rendered them invisible within the larger context of the colonial social order, thus enabling the construction of the myth of Indian extinction. | Jean O'Brien | https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska-paperback/9780803286191/ | Alice Ingerson | |
23 | Native Land Conservancy | Website | http://www.nativelandconservancy.org | Russ Cohen | |||
24 | The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Opression to Protect People and the Planet | Book | A primer on intersectional environmentalism, written by Leah Thomas, founder of Intersectional Environmentalist aimed at educating the next generation of activists on how to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change. The Intersectional Environmentalist is an introduction to the intersection between environmentalism, racism, and privilege, and an acknowledgment of the fundamental truth that we cannot save the planet without uplifting the voices of its people — especially those most often unheard. Written by Leah Thomas, a prominent voice in the field and the activist who coined the term "Intersectional Environmentalism," this book is simultaneously a call to action, a guide to instigating change for all, and a pledge to work towards the empowerment of all people and the betterment of the planet. In The Intersectional Environmentalist, Thomas shows how not only are Black, Indigenous and people of color unequally and unfairly impacted by environmental injustices, but she argues that the fight for the planet lies in tandem to the fight for civil rights; and in fact, that one cannot exist without the other. An essential read, this book addresses the most pressing issues that the people and our planet face, examines and dismantles privilege, and looks to the future as the voice of a movement that will define a generation. | Leah Thomas | https://www.greengirlleah.com/book | Cliff Sheehan | |
25 | Green Corridor Initiative | Webpage | Our green corridor initative (https://www.aspetucklandtrust.org/green-corridor-landing-page) is about guiding people in ways to make personal change that expands local green footprint. The work in Bridgeport is under the umbrella with the difference being the burden of resources being on the land trust. I'm not sure if that answered it properly but would love to talk more | https://www.aspetucklandtrust.org/green-corridor-landing-page | Reggy | rsaintfortcolin@aspetucklandtrust.org | |
26 | The Mystic River Watershed Initiative | Webpage | The Mystic River Watershed Initiative is a collaborative effort with a goal to improve water quality and environmental conditions as well as create and protect open space and public access to the Mystic River and its tributaries through safe public pathways and access points. The Initiative is guided by a steering committee composed of 22 organizations including not-for-profit community groups, local, state, and federal governmental agencies. To hear thoughts, perspectives, and insight from some of the not-for-profit and municipal Steering Committee members, play video below. | EPA | https://www.epa.gov/mysticriver/mystic-river-watershed-initiative | Kira Jacobs | |
27 | Measuring Urban Heat Islands with Wicked Hot Mystic | Webpage | https://resilient.mysticriver.org/wicked-hot-mystic | Kira Jacobs | |||
28 | BioAesthetics + Wicked Hot Mystic Project Visualizing Extreme Heat, Local Effects of Global Warming, and Urban Heat Islands | Webpage | This is the art work that we were able to co-create wiht | http://www.biomedia-lab.org/wicked-hot-mystic | Melanie Gárate | ||
29 | Why Detroit residents pushed back against tree-planting | Article | Detroiters were refusing city-sponsored “free trees.” A researcher found out the problem: She was the first person to ask them if they wanted them. | Brentin Mock | https://grist.org/article/why-detroit-residents-pushed-back-against-tree-planting/ | Erin Witham | |
30 | Dr. Andrew Reinmann Awarded Hudson River Estuary Program Grant to Study Urban Forest of Westchester County | Article | http://www.cunysustainablecities.org/dr-andrew-reinmann-awarded-hudson-river-estuary-program-grant-to-study-urban-forest-of-westchester-county/ | John Rhodes | |||
31 | Trees4Us Pawtucket Central Falls | Website | Groundwork Rhode Island and the Pawtucket Central Falls Health Equity Zone (PCF HEZ) is working hand-in-hand with the municipalities, residents, businesses, and schools to plant 140 trees in the PCF neighborhoods with the hottest temperatures and least number of trees. Groundwork RI is now looking to identify and prioritize all 140 locations to plant in spring/fall 2021. If you are a PCF resident, business owner, or school personnel, please contact Program Coordinator, Leandro Castro, at kcastro@groundworkri.org if you are interested in getting a free tree for your property. | https://groundworkri.org/trees4uspcf/ | Amanda Freitas | ||
32 | Green Streets | Website | The Green Streets program works to increase the urban tree canopy in Lawrence by providing FREE trees to city residents and businesses. In 2008, we received funding from the Commonwealth’s Environmental Justice Program to pilot an urban forestry program, planting 18 trees that year. Since then, Green Streets has grown to a year-round project with the ambitious goal of planting 400 trees per season. We are currently receiving funding from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental and Energy Affairs (EEA) under their Greening the Gateway Cities program. Greening The Gateway Cities uses alternative compliance funds to support urban forestry programs in 14 communities. The program aims to combat the urban heat island effect on a neighborhood scale, increasing energy efficiency and reducing cooling and heating costs for residents. To achieve the necessary cooling, 5 trees per acre need to be planted. | https://www.groundworklawrence.org/greenstreets | Michele Girard | ||
33 | Conservation can address the most pressing issues of our generation | Article | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M8wcRdC86h-Rn6JyE0e0RVWpyXc03zK5/view | Cassandra Bull | |||
34 | From dominance to stewardship: Chuck Sams’ Indigenous approach to the NPS | NPR Story | From dominance to stewardship: Chuck Sams’ Indigenous approach to the NPS The first Native national parks director talks tribal co-management, historical accuracy, harassment, and the fallacy of “wilderness.” | https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.11/indigenous-affairs-national-park-service-from-dominance-to-stewardship-chuck-sams-indigenous-approach-to-the-nps |