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Native America Calling: Tribal forestry managers react to timber ’emergency’

Thursday, May 22, 2025

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Conservation, consultation, and competition: tribal forestry managers react to timber ’emergency’

The federal government is poised to open up an extra 112 million acres of land to cover what Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins labels an “emergency.”

Tribes concerned about sacred places, wildlife habitat, and conservation complain they were left out of the decision-making process to get here. And while there’s potentially opportunities for tribes that look to logging for economic development, many worry about how the expedited federal push will affect the market for timber.

Join Native America Calling to talk with experts from the timber industry about balancing production, land management, and economics.

A sign on the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin proclaims “over 140 years of sustainable forest management.” Photo: J. Stephen Conn

Guests on Native America Calling

John Awonohopay (Menominee), sales manager for Menominee Tribal Enterprise, an economic development entity of the Menominee Nation, headquartered in Wisconsin

Cody Desautel (Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation), president of the Intertribal Timber Council and the executive director of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Washington state

Tim Miller, director of forestry for the Grand Portage Tribe Forestry and Fire Management Department in Minnesota and treasurer of the Intertribal Timber Council