Partnering with tribes throughout the region to help market tribal wood products and support data-driven decision-making.
- Climate resilience, Forestry, Indigenous leadership, Storytelling, Tools & mapping
- California, Oregon, Washington
The Milky Way seen above Hoopa Valley, Calif. Sean Gutierrez | During a debris monitoring field training with Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership and The Blueprint Foundation, 2020 Green Workforce Academy participants canoe through a slough at Kelley Point Park in Portland, Ore. Michelle Pearl Gee | Apples at Willow Brook Organics farm. Roland Dahwen | Cayuse Singers celebrate Antone Minthorn in 2022. Connor Meyer | Desolation Creek. Brian Kelly | Saving seeds at Mudbone Grown farm. Noah Thomas | Rebecca Smith of Ice Queen PDX distributing paletas at a Legacy Hospital event for participants of the Institutional Purchasing Pathways program. FLI Social | Lichen is collected during a forest walk with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. Noah Thomas | Leaping salmon. Sam Beebe
The Milky Way seen above Hoopa Valley, Calif. Sean Gutierrez
Ecotrust is a collaborative nonprofit, working with community members and organizations toward a vision of an equitable, prosperous, and climate-smart future
We work in partnership across our region at the intersection of equity, the economy, and the environment. Explore some of our 50+ current projects below.
Slideshow: Harvesting kelp in Southeast Alaska, Bethany Sonsini Goodrich | Restoration through Storytelling gathering at Black Futures Farm, Ben Anang for FLI Social | An acorn found at Hall Mountain Community Forest, managed by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Sean Gutierrez
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Our strategic goals connect us to this place, to our communities, and to each other. We uplift powerful, community-centered and self-determined initiatives in pursuit of climate resilience, intergenerational wealth-building, and lands and waters stewardship.
—Olivia M. Rebanal,
VP of Social Enterprise & Community Capital
Hear the voices of our region’s leaders and explore stories of home. See some of our latest news below.
Slideshow: Gabe Sheoships (Cayuse/Walla Walla) accepts one of the 2023 Indigenous Leadership Awards, Jason Hill | Red huckleberries harvested in the Tongass National Forest, located in Southeast Alaska. These are the homelands of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian Peoples who continue to care for, steward, and honor the lands and waters that sustain all Southeast Alaskans, Bethany Sonsini Goodrich | Ecotrust staff and volunteers help out at Thimbleberry Collaborative Farm, Jason Hill
INTERVIEW | Communications Manager Emilie Chen speaks with Chantal Wikstrom, whose childhood on a small farm influenced her present-day interest in growing food and natural resources.
INTERVIEW | A conversation with Pam Oja, fourth generation farm owner, highlights the experiences of Japanese legacy farmers
STAFF VOICES | Inspired by the history of Asian farming in the Pacific Northwest, Emilie Chen interviews six Asian Americans about family history and connections to farming
Impact
Being transparent about who we are, what we have accomplished, and where we can improve is an important part of becoming an anti-racist organization, and we are committed to growing these practices at Ecotrust.
Ecotrust staff and family pull ivy at a volunteer day in collaboration with Friends of Tryon Creek, 2024. Photo credit: Jason Hill