A team of environmental management specialists, dendrologists and Indigenous studies researchers found evidence showing that Indigenous people living in British Columbia cultivated hazelnut trees ...
By decoding the DNA of the beaked hazelnut (Corylus cornuta), a native plant that thrives in British Columbia, a team of multidisciplinary scientists is providing new insight into how ancestral ...
The hazelnut tree has long been a part of the landscape in parts of British Columbia. A 19th-century settler gave the village of Hazelton in northern B.C.'s Skeena region its name because of the ...
To understand the intertwined histories of people and plants, Armstrong often works for and with Indigenous Elders and knowledge-holders. Through previous projects, Armstrong became aware of oral ...
Happily, she said, the roots of the plants also prevent nuts from getting plugged into wet, winter soil, which can be a problem for bare-dirt hazelnut farms. Hallett said over the next five years ...