Muckleshoot Tribe’s Tomanamus Community Day: Connecting with the Land and Community
More than 1,200 Muckleshoot tribal and community members gathered in the rural foothills of Mount Rainier at the tribe’s Tomanamus…
Protecting Natural Resources for Everyone
More than 1,200 Muckleshoot tribal and community members gathered in the rural foothills of Mount Rainier at the tribe’s Tomanamus…
The Swinomish Tribe is exploring ways to manage its forestland sustainably by placing a value on trees beyond the price…
The Upper Skagit Indian Tribe partnered with Puget Sound Energy (PSE) to improve fish habitat on Weyerhaeuser land along Finney…
Two maple trees harvested from Upper Skagit Tribe timberlands have a musical future ahead of them. The trees were sold…
The Tulalip Tribes recently honored retiring regional Forest Service Supervisor Rob Iwamoto for his work to protect tribal treaty rights to…
I was recently asked to sum up my aspirations for the new year in a single word. For me, the word is hope.
If I could give everyone a single gift, it would be hope, because it is the spawning ground of all worthy achievement and the source of light on our trail ahead. It is the primary source of human energy, and to be without it is worse than death.
I’m not referring to the trail our country has been on for the past six years—years of corporate self-indulgence at the expense of environmental investment. The achievements I speak of have nothing to do with drilling more oil wells or erecting taller buildings to further pad the wallets of the super rich.