Or maybe we just call it and start fresh next year.

It’s too bad other news outlets don’t cover the issue with such nuance and perspective. Well done by them and by you.

Thanks so much for the amazing talk, Stephanie! Come back again, bring Pat, and we’ll do more hanging out.

Sure, but every time I walk out my cabin door I seem to get one right in the face, which is more Alien than sexy.

Gordon Lightfoot.

Just deleted mine too. Make sure you put “too expansive potential use of my personal data as per Terms of Service update” (or something like that) in the comment box about why you are deleting.

Where’s Stormy McStormface?

I’m interested! But probably not eligible.

Journal of Social Archaeology, if spun right.

Basically my faculty perspective in a nutshell: “The massive expansion of administration has also fuelled an equally stark expansion of empty activities.”

Epic amount of work, congrats. One comment: I get this is a biological assessment, but humans as a main driver of all this seems largely absent from much of the discussion. We really are the keystone alien species actively and passively behind much of this.

And he has a paper in our upcoming UPF book! upf.com/book.asp?id=...

Honestly I was surprised - maybe even disappointed - in how superficially archaeology played into the evidence/decision. I don’t think even most well intentioned archaeologists know how to read the archaeological record of the Salish Sea (sorry colleagues!).

You are probably the most informed and articulate (non-FN) person to address these excellent questions. Wouldn’t it be nice if this wasn’t ultimately going to come down to a Supreme Court ruling, meaning that maybe we could all just sit down and work this out outside that adversarial court system.