Participation de Laurence Boudreault au «IUFRO division 5 conference»
Laurence Boudreault, étudiante au doctorat en sciences forestières, sous la direction de Alexis Achim et Maude Flamand-Hubert, a participé au «IUFRO division 5 conference», tenue du 4 au 8 juin 2023 à Cairns, en Australie, afin d’y présenter son projet de recherche sur « le frêne noir en tant qu’espèce clé de voûte culturelle ».
Ce fut une excellente occasion pour partager ses résultats de recherche via une présentation orale à l’échelle internationale et élargir ses champs de compétences et ses réseaux de contacts, grâce au programme d’aide financière de mobilité étudiante du CRMR et à l’initiative de recherche Silva21.
Félicitations Laurence et nous vous souhaitons beaucoup de succès et de prospérité dans votre parcours scolaire!
Titre de la présentation: Black ash as a cultural keystone species: W8banakiak issus and perspectives
Résumé: Black ash (Fraxinus nigra) is a ring-porous hardwood, whose natural range extends from the United States to the limit of the temperate zone in Southern Quebec. Black ash plays fundamental cultural importance and is intrinsically tied to the cosmology for many indigenous groups, including the W8banakiak (Canada). The W8banakiak use black ash for traditional basketry because of incredible wood mechanical properties. Basketry consists of weaving strips of wood into basket. Since the 1980s, knowledge carrier experiment difficulties to find basket grade quality trees. Black ash stands access has also been compromised by issues, such as silvicultural practices and privatization of the territory. The emerald ash borer, an invasive species introduced in North America in 2002, constitutes a growing threat to the survival of ash trees. The Nation has mobilized many times in history, performing acts of resurgence to maintain the relationship that unites them to black ash. We are now conduction a partnership project at the crossroads of anthropology and forestry with the Grand Council of the Waban-Aki Nation. The general aim is to participate in the governance first nation-led process regarding this cultural keystone species. The objective is to document the properties of black ash that are associated with basketry and to identify the growing conditions that affect these properties, to propose innovative measures for the management of the species based on the W8banakiak stewardship vision and knowledge that can enhance and sustain both black ash and basketry has to ensure the transmission and securing of knowledge and practices.