From 2020: Restoration of #LandStewardship

#SunlightMediaCollective, October 14, 2020

"A significant return of land #stewardship to the #PenobscotNation celebrates their history and cultural #resilience and serves to inspire similar land stewardship returns during and beyond this important moment of historical reckoning. On October 30th, 2020, in the Ancestral territory of the Penobscot Nation, #ChiefKirkFrancis and the Penobscot people received 735 acres of #LandBack in what is currently known as #WilliamsburgTownship. The land is located between two parcels of land already in Penobscot stewardship, to the West of the #PleasantRiver and the town of #Brownsville. This is a broad landscape of #RiverEcosystem and critical #AtlanticSalmon habitat that connects the #PenobscotRiver to #Katahdin."

Video link:
https://www.sunlightmediacollective.org/restoration-of-land-stewardship/

#Wabanaki #WabanakiAlliance #IndigenousPeoplesDay

River ecosystem (Ecosystems 🏞️)

River ecosystems are flowing waters that drain the landscape, and include the biotic interactions amongst plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic physical and chemical interactions of its many parts. River ecosystems are part of larger watershed networks or catchments, where smaller headwater streams drain into mid-size str...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_ecosystem

#RiverEcosystem #Rivers #Limnology #Ecosystems #RiparianZone #WaterStreams