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Native plants in California's Owens River Valley: Integrating Paiute traditional ecological knowledge & Western botany through participatory research (177.1 KB - PDF) This 2004 report describes a participatory research project in which Bishop and Big Pine Paiute tribal members document their traditional ecological knowledge of native plants and link their knowledge with Western science.

The Maidu Stewardship Project: Blending of two knowledge systems in forest management (2004) (189.3 KB - PDF) describes a participatory research project in which members of a Native American community are monitoring outcomes of traditional management of oaks and other plants important for traditional foods, medicines, and material culture on a national forest stewardship site. The project integrates monitoring priorities of Western science and Maidu traditional ecological knowledge.

Sharing Stewardship of the Harvest: Report on the 2003 Crescent Lake Mushroom Monitoring Project
This report describes a grassroots participatory research project that engages diverse, low-income harvesters in monitoring the social, cultural, and ecological dimensions of the matsutake mushroom harvest in Crescent Lake, Oregon.

Sharing Stewardship of the Harvest: Building capacity among low-income Non-Timber Forest Product harvesters
This 2003 summary report introduces the process of multi-party monitoring and how on-the-ground participatory research is resulting in new avenues of participation among low-income, culturally diverse mushroom harvesters in land management decision-making.

Report on the Regional Forum of the Latino Forest Workers Leadership Group presents the results of a participatory needs assessment and demonstrates the formation of a leadership group among Latino forest workers from California, Oregon, and Washington. Reports from the 2002 and 2003 forums are available in printed format in English or Spanish.