References & Acknowledgements

I would like to thank my supervisors, Dr. Carol Frost and Dr. Tyler Cobb, for helping me every step of the way. I also thank my lab mates, notably my summer student Quinn Burns and my volunteers Alondra Pineda Torres, Jake Landry-Doran, Jenae Ramjohn, Sophia Grossi, Tessa Frisky, and Yuliana Munoz Morales. I would also like to acknowledge that my research took place on Treaty 6 territory, homeland of the Metis, Cree, Salteaux, Nakota, Dene, Assiniboine, and Ojibwa peoples. Finally, I thank the Government of Alberta, the counties, and private landowners for welcoming my research on or near their land. 

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