Our manuscript draft has been reviewed and approved by our community partners and the Coastal Voices steering committee… AND it’s been accepted for publication - hooray! Now it’s time to get all of the data files together and send them back to the communities. And beyond just sharing the survey data with the communities from which it came… we are working on a bigger data sharing mission…
We are compiling all of the photos, raw video footage, workshop transcripts, reports, community newsletters, full survey data (with permission to share from both Sugpiaq and Kyuquot/Chekleset communities), and manuscripts that have come out of the Coastal Voices work and are providing all of this to the First Nation Hereditary Chief councils (Nuu-chah-nulth, Heiltsuk, and Haida) and Sugpiaq Village Councils that initially approved this work. We hope that this data and information will be useful to them in the future as they continue to, or begin to navigate sea otter recovery in their territories.
The original surveys from interviews conducted with many wonderful people from Kyuquot/Chekleset willing to share their time and thoughts with us.