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The People's Way Project: how traditional way of knowing the land led to the creation of the most extensive wildlife-sensitive highway in North America

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dc.contributor.authorSkyelander, Kim, speaker
dc.contributor.authorUnidentified speaker
dc.coverage.spatialMontana
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T04:55:48Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T04:55:48Z
dc.date.issued2011-11
dc.descriptionPresented at the Fall 2011 Center for Collaborative Conservation (https://collaborativeconservation.org/) Special Seminar, "Collaborative Conservation in Practice: Indigenous Peoples and Conservation", November 15, 2011, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. This series focused on Indigenous Peoples and Conservation.
dc.descriptionKim Skyelander has a B.S. degree in Wildlife Biology from Utah State University, a M.S. degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana, and a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of Idaho. She worked professionally for the U.S. Forest Service as a wildlife biologist, public affairs specialist, assistant district ranger, tribal government liaison, and wilderness ranger. She left the USFS to pursue a career in teaching and taught natural resources classes for eight years at the Salish Kootenai College on the Flathead Indian Reservation. More recently, Kim was the executive director of a large outdoor learning school in northeastern MN, and she is currently the Associate Director of the Center for Collaborative Conservation at CSU.
dc.descriptionIncludes recorded speech and PowerPoint presentation.
dc.descriptionAccessibility features: unedited transcript. To request an edited transcript, please contact library_digitaladmin@mail.colostate.edu or call (970) 491-1844.
dc.description.abstractFor more than 10 years the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (the tribal government of the Flathead Indian Reservation), the Montana Dept. of Transportation (MDOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) tried to collaborate on a project to re‐design U.S. Hwy 93, one of the most beautiful and dangerous highways in Montana. The highway organizations proposed to turn the two lane highway into a four-lane undivided highway with wider lanes and shoulders and straighter and flatter alignments. This is how engineers build safe, cost effective roads. However, the tribal government strongly opposed this plan because of concerns that a four‐lane highway would accelerate non‐tribal development, adversely affect wildlife and wetlands, and damage tribal cultural and spiritual sites. The new highway, the tribes said, should be designed with the idea that the road is a visitor and should respond to and be respectful of the land and Spirit of Place. Finally, after many years of negotiation and stand-offs between the three governments, the project started to flourish. What had to happen for this project to go from drowning in quicksand to becoming one of the most successful culturally and environmentally sensitive highways in the U.S.? Come find out!
dc.format.extent42 minutes 39 seconds
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/46020
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofFall 2011
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dc.subjectspiritual sacred sites
dc.subjecttribal history
dc.subjectwildlife crossing structures
dc.subjectcontext-sensitive design
dc.subjecthighway safety
dc.subjectenvironmental impact
dc.subjectwildlife
dc.subjectwetlands
dc.subjecttribal cultural sites
dc.subjectU.S. 93
dc.titleThe People's Way Project: how traditional way of knowing the land led to the creation of the most extensive wildlife-sensitive highway in North America
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