Ambitious B.C. project aims to fight climate change one seed at a time
Seed the North will collect seeds and use drone technology to drop them over areas disturbed by both natural disaster and industry.
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Seed the North will collect seeds, combine them in biodiverse seedpods and, using drone technology, drop them over thousands of acres that have been disturbed by natural events and industry. (Amanda Follett Hosgood for The Tyee)
For Natasha Kuperman, the seed was planted at a young age.
“Everyone has an issue that they think is the most important thing,” she says. “My entire life, it was clear to me without a doubt that climate change is the issue that trumps all other issues.”
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Amanda Follett Hosgood 4 May 2021 | The Tyee / Investigate West
Amanda Follett Hosgood is The Tyee’s northern B.C. reporter. She lives in Wet’suwet’en territory. Find her on Twitter @amandajfollett. SHARES Natasha Kuperman on her northern BC plot, where she is trying to develop a way of seeding resilient, carbon-absorbing forests using pods dropped from drones.
Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood. [Editor’s note: This is the latest in a year-long occasional series of articles produced by InvestigateWest in partnership with The Tyee and other news organizations exploring what it will take to shift the Cascadia region to a zero-carbon economy, and is supported in part by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.]
Text by Nyn Tomkins and David Moskowitz. Photography by David Moskowitz.
HIGH ON A FORESTED MOUNTAIN in northern British Columbia, in the traditional territory of the West Moberly Dunne-za First Nations (WMFN) and Saulteau First Nations (SFN), Starr Gauthier is on patrol with a twelve-gauge shotgun slung over her shoulder and a laptop bag in hand. Starr is a Caribou Guardian charged with tending to the Klinse-za Caribou Maternity Pen built by these First Nations, as part of their effort to protect an animal that is vital to their cultures.
Starr Gauthier, member of the SFN and Caribou Guardian at the maternity pen. “Use us as an example of steps that we need to take as human beings, as guardians of Mother Earth. You know, we’re an animal too. Just like caribou. Just like bear. Just like butterflies and birds, you know what I mean? We all share Mother Earth. We’re all part of this system. This is a steppingstone. And it’s a good reminder to people that we need to t