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Native America Calling: Tribes vie for better access to traditional plants
Friday, March 28, 2025
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Tribes vie for better access to traditional plants
For the first time in decades, tribes in the Pacific Northwest will be able to forage for wild huckleberries in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest without competition from commercial companies. The development comes after decades of work by the Yakama Nation and other tribes in a contentious dispute, all while the culturally important wild berry abundance has dwindled.

Foraging is also important to the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe in southern Colorado. A collaboration between the tribe and a conservation nonprofit to facilitate foraging on nearby private land just got a significant boost.

Gifford Pinchot National Forest
Huckleberry picking in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington. Photo: U.S. Forest Service

Guests on Native America Calling
Bronsco Jim Jr., chief of the Ḱamíłpa Band of the Yakama Nation in Washington

Josephine Woolington, journalist in Portland, Oregon, author of “The true cost of the huckleberry industry” in High Country News

Treston Chee (Diné), Indigenous lands program field coordinator with Trees, Water & People, a non-profit in Colorado

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