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A celebration of the determination, wisdom, and continuum of Indigenous leadership across the region. The 2024 Indigenous Leadership Awards call for nominations is open now!
PARTNER VOICES | An interview with Kh’asheechtlaa, Louise Brady, 2023 Indigenous Leadership Awardee
FEATURE | Recordings and resources from the fourth and final event in the 2023 Indigenous Leadership Briefing series with Lisa Wilson and Althea Wilson.
FEATURE | Recordings and resources from the third event in the 2023 Indigenous Leadership Briefing series with Jeremy Takala, Maia Bellon, and Lauren Goldberg.
FEATURE | With the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw lndians, we produced an interactive StoryMap that provides educators throughout Oregon with a contemporary presentation on the tribes’ unique history, culture, and homelands
INTERVIEW | Tribal Network Strategist Carson Viles discusses a growing body of work at Ecotrust around Indigenous stewardship and co-management.
PARTNER VOICES | Seafood business Native Candy discusses their journey and vision and the inextricable link between salmon and Native people of our region.
STAFF VOICES | Centering this region’s Indigenous peoples and traditional land and water management knowledges.
PROGRAM UPDATE | Together, we took on the challenges of the year.
PROGRAM UPDATE | Through an interactive mapping tool, we highlight opportunities to protect drinking watersheds up and down the Oregon coast.
STAFF VOICES | As devastating wind-driven fires reshape forest communities up and down the West Coast, a team member reflects on home, partnership, and staying connected.
ECOTRUST UPDATE | In a series of timelines, we share examples of how our work has progressed over the past decade.
ECOTRUST UPDATE | With rapid adoption of forward-looking policies, we have a chance to develop a robust regional response to climate change.
INTERVIEW | An interview with Cecilia Gobin (Tulalip), Conservation Policy Analyst and Southern Resident Orca Task Force Member
ECOTRUST UPDATE | Ecotrust KKCFP Coordinator Miakah Nix shares photos and highlights from Keex’ Kwaan Community Forest Partnership’s first field season.
INTERVIEW | The story behind the Heiltsuk First Nation Investigating and eventually litigating a 2016 diesel spill in unceded territorial waters
INTERVIEW | Jessie Housty of the Heiltsuk First Nation shares the social and economic impacts following the grounding of the Nathan E. Stewart.
ECOTRUST UPDATE | With your support, we furthered new ways of living and doing business in 2018
PROGRAM UPDATE | Now in its second year, we’re accepting applications for our Ag of the Middle Accelerator, a unique business development program
ECOTRUST UPDATE | Our new peer-reviewed study finds additional carbon storage potential through just two components of FSC management.
STAFF VOICES | Our executive director visits Alaska and finds opportunities that benefit the environment and the economy, and advance equity for all
PROGRAM UPDATE | Our head of Fisheries reports back on what she learned this year at Slow Fish San Francisco, a briny conference that brings together fish advocates from across the country to shuck, slurp, converse, and celebrate
ECOTRUST UPDATE | In 2014, Ecotrust assisted in securing permanent conservation for one of Oregon’s last intact coastal estuaries. Now, our newest state park.
FEATURE | Eating responsibly harvested seafood connects us to ocean ecosystems and the people who depend on them.
FEATURE | Tribes around the Puget Sound have long objected to Atlantic salmon being farmed in the Salish Sea. An incident last August shows us why.
ECOTRUST UPDATE | Ecotrust joined the OSU Food Innovation Center and Seafood Analytics to test consumer preference and quality of fresh v. frozen fish.
PARTNER VOICES | “That’s who we are. We’re salmon people.”