STS: Informing Klamath River Restoration Planning with Indigenous spatial analysis and community-identified relational values: Pêeshkeesh Yáv Umúsaheesh

该项目产生了重新混合西方和土著知识体系的新方法，以支持部落在河流管理中的主权，并为建立和分享知识的协议提供信息，以指导河流恢复实践。该团队由卡鲁克文化从业者、卡鲁克部落机构工作人员和非卡鲁克学术研究人员组成，将设计、参与和评估对河流治理的干预，以制定恢复河流的计划。该团队还将采访土著和非土著自然资源科学家，以调查Karuk领导和西方科学领导的河流景观规划方法。这项研究将关注不同的认知和决策方式以及它们之间的相互作用。调查结果将在公共论坛和研讨会以及K-12课程材料中公布。这项研究将为关于谁应该指导，资助和受益于正在进行的克拉马斯河恢复的紧迫辩论提供信息，一旦大坝拆除完成，政策制定者，教育工作者，公民和研究人员都会感兴趣。该项目将科学和技术研究（STS），关键自然地理学（CPG）和土著研究编织在一起，为土著领导和基于地方的河流恢复理论和实践的修复方法做出贡献。通过绘制实地研究项目与土著青年和老年人之间的代际知识交流，并与土著和非土著自然资源科学家的访谈，该项目将调查Karuk领导和西方科学领导的河流景观规划方法如何由于不同的认识论和治理结构而相互冲突和互补。 它将侧重于Karuk知识的实践，将地理空间和人种学数据与基于地点的生态过程的理解相结合。该团队由Karuk文化从业者、Karuk部落机构工作人员和非Karuk学术研究人员组成，将设计、参与和评估对河流治理的干预，以制定河流景观恢复计划。 这项工作的高潮将是公开介绍调查结果和分析更广泛的河流治理过程，实施和维护以社区为重点的恢复计划。 该奖项的共同资助由NSF十大创意之一的新北极导航（NNA）计划提供。NNA支持应对快速变化的北极地区科学挑战的项目，增强新的研究伙伴关系，使下一代北极研究人员多样化，加强正规和非正规教育的努力，并酌情整合知识的共同生产。该奖项与这些目标相一致。该奖项的额外共同资助由生态系统科学、地貌学和土地利用动力学、水文科学计划和扩大参与科学提供。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project generates new ways of remixing Western and Indigenous knowledge systems to support Tribal sovereignty in river management and informs protocols for building and sharing knowledge to guide river restoration practice. The team--comprising Karuk cultural practitioners, Karuk Tribal agency staff, and non-Karuk academic researchers--will design, participate in, and evaluate an intervention into river governance to develop a plan to restore the river. The team will also interview Native and non-Native natural resource scientists to investigate how Karuk-led and Western-science-led approaches to riverscape planning. The study will be attentive to the differing ways of knowing and decision-making and how they interact with each other. Findings will be presented in a public forums and workshops as well as K-12 curriculum materials. The research will inform pressing debates about who should guide, fund, and benefit from ongoing Klamath River restoration once dam removal is complete and be of interest to policy makers, educators, citizens, and researchers. This project will weave together science and technology studies (STS), critical physical geography (CPG), and Indigenous studies to contribute to reparative approaches for Indigenous-led and place-based river restoration theory and practice. By mapping field research projects with intergenerational knowledge exchanges between Native youth and elders and interviews with Native and non-Native natural resource scientists the project will investigate how Karuk-led and Western-science-led approaches to riverscape planning may conflict with and complement each other due to differing epistemologies and governance structures. It will focus on Karuk knowledge-making practices that integrate geospatial, and ethnographic data with place-based understandings of ecological processes. The team--comprising Karuk cultural practitioners, Karuk Tribal agency staff, and non Karuk academic researchers--will design, participate in, and evaluate an intervention into river governance to develop a riverscape restoration plan. The work will culminate in public presentations of findings and analysis of broader river governance processes that implement and maintain a community focused restoration plan. Co-funding for this award is being provided by Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) program one of NSF's 10 Big Ideas. NNA supports projects that address convergence scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic, empower new research partnerships, diversify the next generation of Arctic researchers, enhance efforts in formal and informal education, and integrate the co-production of knowledge where appropriate. This award aligns with those goals.Additional co-funding of this award is provided by EcoSystem Science, Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics, Hydrological Sciences Program and Science of Broadening Participation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.