forest management

Jeremy, Stella and Manaia Wolf, members of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, collect fresh fir boughs in the Rainwater Wildlife Area near Dayton, Wash. The fir boughs will be used as cushioning in the family’s sweat lodge.

How some Northwest tribes cultivate land for First Foods, traditional medicines

Courtney Flatt

For tribes throughout the nation, protecting access to culturally important foods is a top priority. The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation say their first foods policy drives most of their land management decisions.

At a Washington State Supreme Court hearing, a coalition of conservation groups argued state trust lands, including timberlands, should benefit all Washington residents.

Environment and Planning

Conservation groups want Washington forests managed ‘for all the people’

Courtney Flatt

At a Supreme Court hearing, conservation groups argued Washington forest managers should log fewer trees.

Forest managers said thinning this stand in North Central Washington and a controlled back burn set by firefighters helped trees survive this summer's Cedar Creek fire.

Environment and Planning

In North Central Washington, forest thinning, controlled burns help slow wildfire

Courtney Flatt

As wildfires have burned throughout the Northwest this summer, some forest stands have fared better than others. Managers say that’s thanks, in part, to thinning and prescribed burns, which have made the stands more resilient in the face of wildfire. We take a look at one stand in North Central Washington that burned in the Cedar Creek Fire