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October 6, 2026Science, Indigenous knowledge team up to restore Canada’s kelp. (Sea otters help, too.)
Emily Fulton spends a lot of time in a small boat cruising the waters of Clayoquot Sound off the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. As the marine program manager for the nonprofit Redd Fish Restoration Society, she regularly checks on a newly created kelp nursery growing within the traditional territory of […]
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