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The Network in Canadian History & Environment.
NiCHE is a confederation of researchers & educators who work at the intersection of nature & history.
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NiCHE is a confederation of researchers & educators who work at the intersection of nature & history.
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Today we have "Concrete Memories: Constructing Denver’s Valley Highway" by @maggiemcnulty.bsky.social
This is the first post of the Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/12/08/c...
#envhist
This is the first post of the Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/12/08/c...
#envhist
Concrete Memories: Constructing Denver’s Valley Highway
Denver’s 1950s Valley Highway film exposes intimate demolition scenes, revealing memory, loss, and urban transformation that complicate archival interpretation.
niche-canada.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Today we have "Concrete Memories: Constructing Denver’s Valley Highway" by @maggiemcnulty.bsky.social
This is the first post of the Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/12/08/c...
#envhist
This is the first post of the Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/12/08/c...
#envhist
ICYMI:
"The bear understands herself as a body in a home range and as a set of records in files and databases. From the participant’s side, the experience resembles working on a control screen." - John Bessai
niche-canada.org/2025/12/05/p...
#bears #wildlife #conservation #dighum #envhum
"The bear understands herself as a body in a home range and as a set of records in files and databases. From the participant’s side, the experience resembles working on a control screen." - John Bessai
niche-canada.org/2025/12/05/p...
#bears #wildlife #conservation #dighum #envhum
Playing Inside the Grid: Bear 71, Do Not Track, and Life Under Observation
The bear understands herself as a body in a home range and as a set of records in files and databases. From the participant’s side, the experience resembles working on a control screen.
niche-canada.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
ICYMI:
"The bear understands herself as a body in a home range and as a set of records in files and databases. From the participant’s side, the experience resembles working on a control screen." - John Bessai
niche-canada.org/2025/12/05/p...
#bears #wildlife #conservation #dighum #envhum
"The bear understands herself as a body in a home range and as a set of records in files and databases. From the participant’s side, the experience resembles working on a control screen." - John Bessai
niche-canada.org/2025/12/05/p...
#bears #wildlife #conservation #dighum #envhum
"What if there was an event—online, like all events still were at that point—that combined the best elements of an academic conference and a fan convention?" - @tchotchke.bsky.social on the origins of @terrorcamp.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/12/01/t...
#envhist #polarstudies #popculture
niche-canada.org/2025/12/01/t...
#envhist #polarstudies #popculture
December 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"What if there was an event—online, like all events still were at that point—that combined the best elements of an academic conference and a fan convention?" - @tchotchke.bsky.social on the origins of @terrorcamp.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/12/01/t...
#envhist #polarstudies #popculture
niche-canada.org/2025/12/01/t...
#envhist #polarstudies #popculture
Conference Archive Highlight
Listen to "It doesn’t bother me…: Local neighbourhoods, planners and the meaning of environmental justice in an industrial city, 1955-2000" - K en Cruikshank & Nancy Bouchier, Quelques Arpents de Neige Workshop. December 2008
niche-canada.org/resources/co...
#envhist
Listen to "It doesn’t bother me…: Local neighbourhoods, planners and the meaning of environmental justice in an industrial city, 1955-2000" - K en Cruikshank & Nancy Bouchier, Quelques Arpents de Neige Workshop. December 2008
niche-canada.org/resources/co...
#envhist
December 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Conference Archive Highlight
Listen to "It doesn’t bother me…: Local neighbourhoods, planners and the meaning of environmental justice in an industrial city, 1955-2000" - K en Cruikshank & Nancy Bouchier, Quelques Arpents de Neige Workshop. December 2008
niche-canada.org/resources/co...
#envhist
Listen to "It doesn’t bother me…: Local neighbourhoods, planners and the meaning of environmental justice in an industrial city, 1955-2000" - K en Cruikshank & Nancy Bouchier, Quelques Arpents de Neige Workshop. December 2008
niche-canada.org/resources/co...
#envhist
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The family unit supported the #Newfoundland fishery with men at sea and women forming the critical shore crew responsible for curing fish and a multitude of other tasks - meal prep, bread making, gardening, livestock, knitting...
- look at this rich social history @projectfishistory.bsky.social
- look at this rich social history @projectfishistory.bsky.social
Watch: "Women of the Inshore Fishery" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f-S...
Read: "Trouble with Women and Cod: Multispecies Entanglements in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Colonial History" by Vicki S. Hallett - niche-canada.org/2024/12/18/t...
#envhist #cdnhist #wmnshist #coastalhistory #labourhistory
Read: "Trouble with Women and Cod: Multispecies Entanglements in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Colonial History" by Vicki S. Hallett - niche-canada.org/2024/12/18/t...
#envhist #cdnhist #wmnshist #coastalhistory #labourhistory
Women of the Inshore Fishery
YouTube video by Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The family unit supported the #Newfoundland fishery with men at sea and women forming the critical shore crew responsible for curing fish and a multitude of other tasks - meal prep, bread making, gardening, livestock, knitting...
- look at this rich social history @projectfishistory.bsky.social
- look at this rich social history @projectfishistory.bsky.social
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Excellent opportunity to read Part 1 of an interview with retired DFO scientist Garry Stenson by secondary investigator Jim Winter & get insight from his years researching seals and navigating the challenges he encountered @nichecanada.bsky.social @coastalpeoplerpg.bsky.social @bernicecb.bsky.social
Part 1: Interview between secondary investigator Jim Winter and retired Fisheries and Oceans Canada scientist Dr. Garry Stenson
On November 4th, 2025 “Seals, Stigma and Survival” secondary investigator Jim Winter conducted an interview with retired Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) scientist Dr. Garry Stenson. Winter, a previous employee of DFO, was once Stenson’s colleague and together they discuss Stenson’s decades of work for the Canadian government leading seal research off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador and working with national and international partners on seal-focused research.
survivingsealingstigma.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Excellent opportunity to read Part 1 of an interview with retired DFO scientist Garry Stenson by secondary investigator Jim Winter & get insight from his years researching seals and navigating the challenges he encountered @nichecanada.bsky.social @coastalpeoplerpg.bsky.social @bernicecb.bsky.social
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The Water Wars have been happening since the 19th century
December 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Water Wars have been happening since the 19th century
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“The persistent gap between the infrastructure that First Nations people living on reserve and people living in Canadian cities and towns are the result of hundreds of decisions, ones that have cumulatively resourced settler communities and undermined Indigenous ones.”
"The Aqueduct was and remains a monument to colonial modernity. Designed by clever men with letters after their name, many of them American, the Aqueduct brought good drinking water to Winnipeg..." - @adeleperry.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2017/10/23/w...
#envhist #cdnhist #water #colonialism
niche-canada.org/2017/10/23/w...
#envhist #cdnhist #water #colonialism
Water and the Infrastructure of Colonialism
Colonial infrastructure enabled Winnipeg’s clean water by dispossessing Shoal Lake 40, entrenching unequal services and persistent drinking-water crises for First Nations.
niche-canada.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“The persistent gap between the infrastructure that First Nations people living on reserve and people living in Canadian cities and towns are the result of hundreds of decisions, ones that have cumulatively resourced settler communities and undermined Indigenous ones.”
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Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/
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My piece in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the rapid and widespread increase in violence over #water resources in the past several years.
Record levels reported in 2024.
thebulletin.org/2025/12/viol...
Record levels reported in 2024.
thebulletin.org/2025/12/viol...
Violence over water resources reaches record levels
The number of violent events over water resources reported in 2024 was nearly 20 percent higher than 2023 and nearly 80 percent higher than 2022.
thebulletin.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
My piece in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the rapid and widespread increase in violence over #water resources in the past several years.
Record levels reported in 2024.
thebulletin.org/2025/12/viol...
Record levels reported in 2024.
thebulletin.org/2025/12/viol...
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Not only was Frank Farley a passionate naturalist, staunch environmental activist, and the namesake of his grand-nephew, Farley Mowat; he was also a world-class birder. CKUA's Grant Stovel discusses FRANK FARLEY AND THE BIRDS OF ALBERTA with Glen Hvenegaard and Jeremy Mouat.
https://bit.ly/4iJytzS
https://bit.ly/4iJytzS
December 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Not only was Frank Farley a passionate naturalist, staunch environmental activist, and the namesake of his grand-nephew, Farley Mowat; he was also a world-class birder. CKUA's Grant Stovel discusses FRANK FARLEY AND THE BIRDS OF ALBERTA with Glen Hvenegaard and Jeremy Mouat.
https://bit.ly/4iJytzS
https://bit.ly/4iJytzS
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Want to see a snowy owl? This could be your winter
Animal rescues say they're seeing more young birds earlier, suggesting an 'irruption' www.cbc.ca/news/science... . See the tips from #BirdsCanada to minimize disturbance. @jodyallair.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/bird... #Birds #Owls #Photography
Animal rescues say they're seeing more young birds earlier, suggesting an 'irruption' www.cbc.ca/news/science... . See the tips from #BirdsCanada to minimize disturbance. @jodyallair.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/bird... #Birds #Owls #Photography
December 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Want to see a snowy owl? This could be your winter
Animal rescues say they're seeing more young birds earlier, suggesting an 'irruption' www.cbc.ca/news/science... . See the tips from #BirdsCanada to minimize disturbance. @jodyallair.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/bird... #Birds #Owls #Photography
Animal rescues say they're seeing more young birds earlier, suggesting an 'irruption' www.cbc.ca/news/science... . See the tips from #BirdsCanada to minimize disturbance. @jodyallair.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/bird... #Birds #Owls #Photography
"The Aqueduct was and remains a monument to colonial modernity. Designed by clever men with letters after their name, many of them American, the Aqueduct brought good drinking water to Winnipeg..." - @adeleperry.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2017/10/23/w...
#envhist #cdnhist #water #colonialism
niche-canada.org/2017/10/23/w...
#envhist #cdnhist #water #colonialism
Water and the Infrastructure of Colonialism
Colonial infrastructure enabled Winnipeg’s clean water by dispossessing Shoal Lake 40, entrenching unequal services and persistent drinking-water crises for First Nations.
niche-canada.org
December 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"The Aqueduct was and remains a monument to colonial modernity. Designed by clever men with letters after their name, many of them American, the Aqueduct brought good drinking water to Winnipeg..." - @adeleperry.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2017/10/23/w...
#envhist #cdnhist #water #colonialism
niche-canada.org/2017/10/23/w...
#envhist #cdnhist #water #colonialism
The Voice of Women's "campaign succeeded in challenging the hegemonic policies of the nuclear age with scientific data and expertise." - Brandon Cordeiro
niche-canada.org/2020/02/20/i...
#histsci #envhist #coldwar #wmnshist #nuclear #histmed
niche-canada.org/2020/02/20/i...
#histsci #envhist #coldwar #wmnshist #nuclear #histmed
“I Gave My Tooth to Science": The Voice of Women and the Baby Teeth Collection Program
The Voice of Women’s baby teeth campaign used science to expose nuclear fallout, empower women, and influence Canadian peace movements.
niche-canada.org
December 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
ONE WEEK to get your proposals for our The Winter Olympics & Their Environments series to editors @theliftline.bsky.social and Blake Butler!!
niche-canada.org/2025/11/21/c...
#envhist #olympics #sporthistory #winter
niche-canada.org/2025/11/21/c...
#envhist #olympics #sporthistory #winter
December 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
ONE WEEK to get your proposals for our The Winter Olympics & Their Environments series to editors @theliftline.bsky.social and Blake Butler!!
niche-canada.org/2025/11/21/c...
#envhist #olympics #sporthistory #winter
niche-canada.org/2025/11/21/c...
#envhist #olympics #sporthistory #winter
Watch: "Women of the Inshore Fishery" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f-S...
Read: "Trouble with Women and Cod: Multispecies Entanglements in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Colonial History" by Vicki S. Hallett - niche-canada.org/2024/12/18/t...
#envhist #cdnhist #wmnshist #coastalhistory #labourhistory
Read: "Trouble with Women and Cod: Multispecies Entanglements in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Colonial History" by Vicki S. Hallett - niche-canada.org/2024/12/18/t...
#envhist #cdnhist #wmnshist #coastalhistory #labourhistory
Women of the Inshore Fishery
YouTube video by Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Watch: "Women of the Inshore Fishery" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f-S...
Read: "Trouble with Women and Cod: Multispecies Entanglements in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Colonial History" by Vicki S. Hallett - niche-canada.org/2024/12/18/t...
#envhist #cdnhist #wmnshist #coastalhistory #labourhistory
Read: "Trouble with Women and Cod: Multispecies Entanglements in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Colonial History" by Vicki S. Hallett - niche-canada.org/2024/12/18/t...
#envhist #cdnhist #wmnshist #coastalhistory #labourhistory
Today we have "Playing Inside the Grid: Bear 71, Do Not Track, and Life Under Observation" by John Bessai
This is the ninth article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/12/05/p...
#envhist #dighum #bears
This is the ninth article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/12/05/p...
#envhist #dighum #bears
Playing Inside the Grid: Bear 71, Do Not Track, and Life Under Observation
The bear understands herself as a body in a home range and as a set of records in files and databases. From the participant’s side, the experience resembles working on a control screen.
niche-canada.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Today we have "Playing Inside the Grid: Bear 71, Do Not Track, and Life Under Observation" by John Bessai
This is the ninth article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/12/05/p...
#envhist #dighum #bears
This is the ninth article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/12/05/p...
#envhist #dighum #bears
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ft. @monicavasile.bsky.social & some charismatic mini-fauna (Vancouver Island Marmots)
Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading (and listening to) from November!
niche-canada.org/2025/12/04/e...
#envhist
niche-canada.org/2025/12/04/e...
#envhist
#EnvHist Worth Reading: November 2025
Find marmots, sewage infrastructure, and animism in the latest list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.
niche-canada.org
December 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
ft. @monicavasile.bsky.social & some charismatic mini-fauna (Vancouver Island Marmots)
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Good morning from the campus of The Ohio State University, my alma mater, and the site of our symposium on Black and Indigenous Citizenship, the final event of our Mellon Grant that I and my co-PIs have held for the last three years!
December 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Good morning from the campus of The Ohio State University, my alma mater, and the site of our symposium on Black and Indigenous Citizenship, the final event of our Mellon Grant that I and my co-PIs have held for the last three years!
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Excited to dive into my new reading material from MUP @manchesterup.bsky.social @carolinelenette.bsky.social @claireblencowe.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Excited to dive into my new reading material from MUP @manchesterup.bsky.social @carolinelenette.bsky.social @claireblencowe.bsky.social
The 1929 Burin Tsunami
"Learn about the tsunami that struck Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula on November 18, 1929. The disaster killed 28 people and left hundreds more homeless or destitute..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzfe...
#envhist #cdnhist
"Learn about the tsunami that struck Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula on November 18, 1929. The disaster killed 28 people and left hundreds more homeless or destitute..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzfe...
#envhist #cdnhist
The 1929 Burin Tsunami
YouTube video by Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The 1929 Burin Tsunami
"Learn about the tsunami that struck Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula on November 18, 1929. The disaster killed 28 people and left hundreds more homeless or destitute..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzfe...
#envhist #cdnhist
"Learn about the tsunami that struck Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula on November 18, 1929. The disaster killed 28 people and left hundreds more homeless or destitute..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzfe...
#envhist #cdnhist
Watch "Is Canada's New Pipeline Deal Good For The Climate? | The Goose 🇨🇦" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=smDE...
Read "COP Out: Technology, Rhetoric, and Climate Crisis" by Mack Penner - niche-canada.org/2025/01/31/c...
#envhist #climatechange #energy #envirotech #cdnpoli
Read "COP Out: Technology, Rhetoric, and Climate Crisis" by Mack Penner - niche-canada.org/2025/01/31/c...
#envhist #climatechange #energy #envirotech #cdnpoli
Is Canada's New Pipeline Deal Good For The Climate? | The Goose 🇨🇦
YouTube video by The Goose
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Watch "Is Canada's New Pipeline Deal Good For The Climate? | The Goose 🇨🇦" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=smDE...
Read "COP Out: Technology, Rhetoric, and Climate Crisis" by Mack Penner - niche-canada.org/2025/01/31/c...
#envhist #climatechange #energy #envirotech #cdnpoli
Read "COP Out: Technology, Rhetoric, and Climate Crisis" by Mack Penner - niche-canada.org/2025/01/31/c...
#envhist #climatechange #energy #envirotech #cdnpoli
Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading (and listening to) from November!
niche-canada.org/2025/12/04/e...
#envhist
niche-canada.org/2025/12/04/e...
#envhist
#EnvHist Worth Reading: November 2025
Find marmots, sewage infrastructure, and animism in the latest list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.
niche-canada.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading (and listening to) from November!
niche-canada.org/2025/12/04/e...
#envhist
niche-canada.org/2025/12/04/e...
#envhist
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This is an awesome WA project
@nichecanada.bsky.social
One of the features of the 5th National Climate Assessment was a collection of climate artwork contributed by Americans (the document had to be rescued and archived because the White House removed it)
openclimate.org/u-s-national...
@nichecanada.bsky.social
One of the features of the 5th National Climate Assessment was a collection of climate artwork contributed by Americans (the document had to be rescued and archived because the White House removed it)
openclimate.org/u-s-national...
December 4, 2025 at 4:12 AM
This is an awesome WA project
@nichecanada.bsky.social
One of the features of the 5th National Climate Assessment was a collection of climate artwork contributed by Americans (the document had to be rescued and archived because the White House removed it)
openclimate.org/u-s-national...
@nichecanada.bsky.social
One of the features of the 5th National Climate Assessment was a collection of climate artwork contributed by Americans (the document had to be rescued and archived because the White House removed it)
openclimate.org/u-s-national...
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Folks in Great Britain, I'm curious about what it costs to run a 1-day or 2-day conference with invited speakers from across the island. No detailed costings - just a big ol' rough estimate.
December 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Folks in Great Britain, I'm curious about what it costs to run a 1-day or 2-day conference with invited speakers from across the island. No detailed costings - just a big ol' rough estimate.