At the heart of Skeetchestn territory is the Deadman Watershed, a living landscape of roughly 900 square kilometres of forest and grassland northwest of Kamloops (Tk’emlups).Industrial logging and the roads it requires has been a major stressor on this area, and the 2017 Elephant Hill wildfire and the 2021 Sparks Lake wildfire consumed much of the remaining forest. “The Deadman Watershed has been absolutely devastated,” says Shaun Freeman, senior wildlife and habitat biologist with Skeetchestn Natural Resource corp. “What we ended up with is a lot of hydrological issues.” In the early spring, the snowpack melts all at once, with little water retained in the upper watershed due to vegetation loss, he explains. This has knock-on effects for the entire ecosystemTsecmenúl?ecwem-kt (We Repair the Land ) is a project led by Skeetchestn Indian Band to remedy this situation. Since launching this year, their goal is to restore the watershed and enhance its resilience in the face of worsening climate change, while simultaneously…