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Hard data: looking deep into Indigenous forests

Louis De Grandpré studies the traditional lands of Canada’s Pessamit people in the face of widespread logging.
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Louis De Grandpré looks at felled trees in an area undergoing salvage logging efforts in the Canadian boreal forest of the La Haute-Côte-Nord municipality west of Baie-Comeau, Quebec.

Louis De Grandpré is a forest ecologist with the Canadian Forest Service, currently on an exchange programme with the Pessamit people. Credit: Ed Jones/AFP via Getty

I work with the Pessamit band of the Innu First Nation in Nitassinan, the traditional land of the Innu Indigenous people. This is a vast boreal forest region in Canada, covering some 130,000 square kilometres northeast of Quebec City. It’s a fairly open landscape dominated by black spruce (Picea mariana), with some balsam fir (Abies balsamea). It’s not uncommon to find forests that are 300 years old here.

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Nature 624, 218 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03820-x

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