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Nova Kim, a TsiShu (Peace/Root People) of the Little Osage and Leslie Hook, a true Vermont native (raised in the vanishing mountain tradition),
have more than eighty years of experience in wildcrafting, teaching, and living with the land between them.
They have memberships (partial) in: Northern Forest Alliance & Issues; VT Natural Resource Council, and Endangered Species.
Nova and Les are interested in the following issures:
Int’l Intertribal Hoop Society; VT Fresh Network - NECI; USFW Native
Medicinal Plants Work Group, Conservation & Info Committees; Nati;
Network of Forest Practitioners. Educational Instruction (partial):
They have developed D.O.T. 405.161-014, spent over 8000 hrs., Wildcrafter Apprenticeship Specs.;
NOFA, Native VT Plants, Craft & Marketing; New England Culinary
Institute, various; VT Community College, Wild Food & Medicinal Plants; AmeriCorp, Wild Plants ID & Ust?s; Nature Conservancy, VINS, VT
Leadership Ctr, Field Guides;
NE Society of American Foresters;Environmental Law Center; VT Woodlands Assn. & Northern Forest Alliance Network-Speakers,
The E Sha‘N Native Living Learning Center, NEKMS, Inc. – Cofounders Other partial: U.S. Nati. Research
Council’s Committee on Prospects & Opportunities for Sustainable Management of America’s Nonfederal Forests - Invited Testimony
Nova Kim and Les Hokk
