摘要：Sustainability science promotes place-based resource management because natural processes vary amongecosystems. When local science is limited, land managers may be forced to generalize from other ecosystems that functiondifferently. One proposed solution is to draw upon the traditional ecological knowledge that indigenous groups have accumulatedthrough resource use. Integrating traditional ecological knowledge with conventional resource management is difficult, especiallywhen the two offer competing explanations of local environments. Although resource managers may discount traditionalecological knowledge that contradicts conventional resource management, we investigate the possibility that these disagreementscan arise when nonlocal resource management generalizations displace place-based science. Specifically, we compare claimsabout wildfires made by Athabascan forest users residing in or near the Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge and in the U.S. Fishand Wildlife Service fire management plan for that refuge. We focus on two aspects of fire ecology and management: the driversof landscape flammability and the feasibility of using wildfires and prescribed burns to achieve resource management objectives.The results indicated that some disagreements came from reliance of the federal fire management plan on generalized nationalnarratives at the expense of place-based science. We propose that in some cases, conflicts between traditional ecologicalknowledge and conventional resource management, rather than indicating a dead end, can identify topics requiring in-depth,place-based research
关键词：Alaska; climate change; indigenous knowledge; traditional ecological knowledge; wildfire
