News from SECAS-August 2023 Newsletter
Upcoming SECAS symposium at the 2023 SEAFWA Annual Conference
by Amanda Sesser, Coordinator for SECAS
If you're attending the 77th Annual Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (SEAFWA) Conference in Corpus Christi, TX this October, you won't want to miss the annual SECAS symposium. This year, it will focus on engaging multiple sectors of the economy to achieve the SECAS vision of a connected network of lands and waters. For more details, >>check out Amanda's blog...
Integrating rivercane as Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge into the Southeast Conservation Blueprint
by Levi West, Alyssa Quan, and Jennifer Byram, SECAS Rivercane Fellows
This summer, SECAS welcomed a group of three fellows working on rivercane. Rivercane (Arundinaria gigantea) is a bamboo plant native to the Southeastern United States that has played a major role in sustaining cultural practices and ecological systems for many Indigenous communities since time immemorial. Though canebrakes were once prolific throughout the Southeast, today this species and the ecosystems it created have been reduced to approximately 2% of their pre-colonization land area. Throughout this project, the fellows have been working to promote rivercane conservation by working alongside partners to establish a collaborative model, build educational materials, and document a plan for spatial modeling to build a strong foundation for future SECAS work in rivercane. To learn more about their approach, >>visit this blog post by Levi West, Alyssa Quan, and Jennifer Byram...
