Stories from people for understanding places
ISSUE
If you are new to an area or an old-timer can you remember comments people there longer than you have made about your local swimming spot? Reconnecting with collective memory can tell you a story beyond what you have seen. This kind of local knowledge of environmental history isn’t just a glimpse of past time, it can be useful for shaping the future by informing habitat restoration and management, on a personal and community level it can change your relationship with a place.