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Article History

Accepted: 6 May 2025

First Online: 14 June 2025

Declarations

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: Élise Brown-Dussault is a settler natural scientist with deep love and concern for the boreal forest. She is a grateful resident of the traditional territory of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta’an Kwäch’än Council.Jared Gonet is a conservation scientist of Inland Tlingit, Dene, Polish and Métis descent. He has status with Taku River Tlingit, deep family ties to Carcross Tagish First Nation and was born and raised in the North.Tara E. Stehelin is a Conservation Biologist of settler descent, born and raised in northern Canada n with deep connections to intact ecosystems and gratefully acknowledges the privilege to live, work, and recreate on the ancestral lands of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation, Ta’an Kwäch’än Council, Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, Carcross/Tagish First Nation, and other First Nations of northern North America.

: The authors have no competing financial or non-financial interests to disclose.