Golarion TodayJul 28, 2025
4695 AR: Erages Academy founded
#Erages #Kyonin #Blackash #4695AR
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Erages_Academy
The scholarly academy was founded in the half-elven city on top of ancient ruins. The primary focus is archaeology and history, though martial studies are taught at …
DoomsdaysCWJun 8, 2025

So, I attended a Zoom conference on saving #Maine's #AshTrees from the #EmeraldAshBorer. Unfortunately, I missed the presentation by #RichardSilliboy (who got knocked out of the meeting by a thunderstorm), but I did find this film with him in it!

They Carry Us With Them: Richard Silliboy

by Jeremy Seifert

"This film, part of our feature multimedia story 'They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration', profiles Richard Silliboy, a tribal elder and vice chief of the #AroostookBand of #Mikmaqs, and a #BlackAsh #basketmaker. As he weaves a potato basket at his home in Littleton, Maine, Richard contemplates the arrival of the emerald ash borer and the tenuous future of this ancient art."

https://emergencemagazine.org/film/richard-silliboy/

#SolarPunkSunday #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #NativeAmericanBasketry #Sustainability #IndigenousStewardship #CulturalPreservation #InvasiveSpecies #EAG #PreservingNature #Biodiversity #TEK #TIK #TraditionalIndigenousKnowledge s #Basketry #PreservingTheSacred #PreservingTheForest #WabanakiConfederacy
#Wabanakik #WabanakiAlliance #MaineFirstNations #MaineWoods #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledgeSteward

They Carry Us With Them: Richard Silliboy – Jeremy Seifert

This film profiles Mi’kmaq tribal elder Richard Silliboy, a black ash basketmaker. As he weaves a potato basket, Richard contemplates the arrival of the emerald ash borer and the tenuous future of this ancient art.

Emergence Magazine
Golarion TodayJul 28, 2024
4695 AR: Erages Academy founded
#Erages #Kyonin #Blackash #4695AR
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Erages_Academy
The scholarly academy was founded in the half-elven city on top of ancient ruins. The primary focus is archaeology and history, though martial studies are taught at …
Erages Academy - PathfinderWiki

kiki me myself and IJul 18, 2024

#icymi I’d like to raise (and boost) awareness about the plight of the black ash tree. As part of the immersion language course in Western Abenaki we learned about the intergenerational tradition of basket making. It’s not just about pretty livelihood, it’s a sacred relationship between the trees, the land, and the people. And the #emeraldashborer threatens to destroy it.

https://www.emeraldashborer.info/blackash

#indigenouscreatives #blackash #invasivespecies #indigenouslifeways #allmyrelations

EAB Network - Black Ash

Black ash (Fraxinus nigra Marshall), sometimes called brown ash or basket ash, is an ecologically significant tree species found throughout much of the Great Lakes and northeastern regions of the United States and eastern Canada. Black ash trees grow in forested wetlands such as bogs or swamps or that are flooded for part of the year, along with riparian forests that border streams, rivers or lakes. In additional to its ecological importance, black ash is also a cultural keystone species for members of many Native American and First Nations tribes. Many generations of basket makers use black ash to create baskets that are both beautiful and useful, and some tribes have spiritual connections to black ash. Unfortunately, black ash is also the most highly preferred and vulnerable host for EAB in North America. Given the ongoing spread of EAB, black ash may effectively be lost from North American forests over the next 20-30 years. This level of mortality is expected to result in serious impacts in black ash ecosystems and will directly impact traditions and a long-standing way of life for many tribal members. In the coming months, we will add an array of information about black ash ecology and its cultural importance to this webpage.

Ms. Que BanhJun 19, 2024

Beautiful #BlackAsh #tree 😍
Loved the dappled sunlight too.

#VancouverIsland #nature #botanical #arbor #DisabledPhotographers #YYJphotographers #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada #photography #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #NatureLovers #YYJ #PNW #VanIsle #TreeIdentification #TreeLovers

DoomsdaysCWJun 8, 2024

As insect invaders approach, researchers use a combination of indigenous knowledge and Western forestry science to save a valuable tradition

By Willy Blackmore Nov 25, 2019,

"Suzanne Greenlaw doesn’t like chainsaws. She moves quickly through the chest-high ostrich ferns, frilly leaves heavy with rain, as the orange saw sputters and then chokes. 'She gets all freaked out,' says Gabriel Frey, laughing as he yanks the starting cord again with one heavily muscled arm, the saw whirring to life. Putting the bar to a trunk of shaggy, gray-tinged bark, he begins to cut, the grinding sound of the saw echoing through the damp, green-lit stand.

"The felled tree is one of three that Frey and Greenlaw carefully picked out of the woods on the cool, damp July day in far northern #Maine. Plenty of logs are hauled out of the forest there, in #AroostookCounty, which is home to a chunk of the #NorthMaineWoods, a 3.5 million-acre expanse of commercial timberland. But Frey and Greenlaw, and the stand of gray-barked trees, are part of a tradition that’s far older than any timber camp or lumber mill. The trees are #FraxinusNigra, commonly known as #BlackAsh or #BrownAsh, which have forever been at the hearts of the lives of Maine’s indigenous tribes.

"Greenlaw, a #Maliseet forestry scientist working on her PhD at the University of Maine, is at the forefront of the effort to protect the state’s brown ash. The trees are at risk of being wiped out by the emerald ash borer, an #InvasiveSpecies that has been killing ash trees in North America for the better part of 20 years. With the help of Frey, a renowned #Passamaquoddy basket maker, as well as the broader #Wabanaki basket-making community, the married couple is fighting to preserve the rich tradition the tree supports."

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/25/20976144/emerald-ash-borer-baskets-wabanaki-invasive-pest-maine-tradition-trees

#IndigenousTraditions #IndigenousWisdom #EmeraldAshBorer #SaveTheTrees #ClimateChange #InvasiveSpecies #MaineWoods #IndigenousPeoplesDay

The Last Stand

Baskets crafted out of brown ash trees are a vital cultural and economic driver for members of the five Wabanaki tribes in North America. But stands of basket-quality brown ash aren’t common in Maine. As the emerald ash borer approaches, forestry PhD student Suzanne Greenlaw is working on a tool to predict where those stands might be, so that basket makers can protect them before it is too late. 

The Verge
Golarion TodayJul 28, 2023
4695 AR: #Erages Academy founded (#Kyonin)*
The scholarly academy was founded in the half-elven city on top of ancient ruins. The primary focus is archaeology and history, though martial studies are taught at the #Blackash Training Grounds.
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PhoenixSerenityJun 9, 2023

Tweten is of #Cree ancestry and now lives on #PEI working on the PEI #ForestedLandscape Priority Place project as a #Mikmaw engagement co-ordinator. 
The project #protects #SpeciesAtRisk & their #habitats & while it's hard to know how many #BlackAsh #trees are left on the Island, Tweten said 450 is a good guess.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6868539

#IndigenousLed #FirstNations #rewilding #NativeTrees #Canada #NativeNatureProject #environmental #biodiversity #ecosystems #Nature #Maritimes #NativeKnowledge

Why planting black ash trees is so important for P.E.I. and the Mi'kmaq

Numbers of P.E.I.'s native black ash have dwindled to just a few hundred, while Mi'kmaw communities need the wood for basket weaving and other cultural endeavours.

CBC