Thursday, May 22, 2025 – 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. We’ll talk with experts from the timber industry about balancing production, land management, and economics. GUESTS John Awonohopay (Menominee), Menominee Tribal Enterprise sales manager 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 Tim Miller, director of forestry for the Grand Portage Tribe Forestry and Fire Management Department and treasurer of the Intertribal Timber Council   Break 1 Music: Edge of The Rez, Part 2 (song) The Blue Stone Project (artist) Blue Stone (album) Break 2 Music: BALDH3AD! (song) Theia (artist)