Intertribal Timber Council
@intertribal-tc.bsky.social
Our mission, to pursue and promote the conservation and development of Indian forest resources for the benefit and advancement of Indian people. www.itcnet.org
ITC is presenting at #AISES2026 in Portland! 🌲 Join ITC VP Phil Rigdon for Scaling Sovereignty: The Timber Team’s Role in Modern Tribal Forest Management 🗓 Thu, Oct 15 🕐 1–1:45pm 📍 Room A106 A roadmap for students into Tribal forestry careers. #TribalForestry
For Mary Welch Thompson, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, weaving white oak baskets is a doorway back to the land, the culture, and the people. 🌿 #IndigenousBasketry #EasternBandCherokee #TribalForestry
The Intertribal Timber Council and the U.S. Wildland Fire Service have signed an MOU on wildland fire management. 🌲🔥 Both parties agree to uphold Indian self-determination and Tribal sovereignty, and to create a Tribal Wildland Fire Managers' Forum. #TribalSovereignty
This is the face of someone who just found out how simple NRCS funding actually can be. 🦌 (Okay, it’s a deer from one of Braided Canopy case study's wildlife cameras) Curious what we're talking about? Check out braidedcanopy.com🌲
Penobscot Nation reframed forestry priorities to protect a deer yard critical to sustenance hunting — softwood shelter over commercial timber. EQIP-funded thinning, and the data proved it: deer clearly preferred the treated habitat. 🦌
For Avery Guy, being Indigenous is inseparable from land. Not land as a resource managed from the outside — but land as home. Where culture lives, practices are passed down, and identity is rooted. Tribal forestry doesn't just protect trees. It protects a way of life.
Big news: ITC and Sustainable Northwest received a $1.7M, five-year award from US Endowment to help Tribes turn small-diameter wood and biomass into jobs, businesses, and healthier forests. Our new Wood and Biomass Hub starts with three pilot Tribes.
Did you know fire is one of nature's most powerful planting tools? Certain trees have evolved to depend on fire to reproduce — heat melts sealed cones open, releasing seeds. It's called serotiny. Indigenous communities have understood this for generations.
For Apache people, the land has never been separate from language, song, ceremony, prayer, and traditional food. When outside programs arrive with Western science alone, they leave out the elders who stewarded these lands for generations. #ApacheNation #TribalForestry
A conversation worth watching: FSA and NRCS staffmwalking through how these programs actually work. Watch the full "USDA NRCS and FSA Programs Webinar" — now on our YouTube channel, link in bio. 🌱 #TribalForestry #NRCS #IntertribalTimberCouncil #IndigenousStewardship
For generations, Indigenous communities stewarded forests as a web. When that stewardship was removed, the consequences followed. Governing from an Indigenous lens isn't just cultural — it's what the land has always responded to. 🕸️ #TribalForestry #TrustResponsibility
New on our blog 📝 — ITC introduces Braided Canopy, a new tool helping Tribes cut through the barriers to NRCS funding and technical support. Read why relationships, support, and funding are the three braids holding it together 🌿
What would the next 50 years look like for Tribal forestry? 🌲 More funding. More agency over the land. More resources to steward it. What do you want to see happen in 50 years? Tell us below 👇 #ITC50 #TribalForestry
New on our blog 🌲 Read to learn about 150+ years of Menominee forest stewardship, the film series behind Forests of the First Stewards, and the free K-12/higher-ed curriculum bringing Traditional Ecological Knowledge into classrooms nationwide. #ForestProud
🌳 Stay rooted with us. Sign up for our newsletter to hear about upcoming workshops, webinars, and news from Braided Canopy. Let's keep branching out together. 🍃 👉 Link in bio #BraidedCanopy #TribalForestry #TribalSovereignty
📺 It's here! Symposium Workshops, Panels & Speaker Events are now live on YouTube. Catch every session, anytime. 🔗 Link in bio #Symposium #NowStreaming
Working with NRCS doesn't have to feel like a maze. Here's the roadmap — swipe through. Find your local NRCS office and everything else you need to get started — link in bio. 🌱 #BraidedCanopy #TribalForestry #NRCS #TribalGovernment
Trust takes time, and we know why. We're here for the long term — listening first, building plans around what you know your land needs. 🌱 #BraidedCanopy #TribalForestry
🌲 Introducing "Forests of the First Stewards: Menominee Nation" — a new film series & K–12 curriculum on Indigenous forestry leadership, from ancient tradition to modern stewardship. ITC is proud to sponsor this project. 🎥 forestproud.org/forest-of-the-first-stewards #forestproud
Two NRCS programs to know: EQIP pays once for new conservation work (thinning, burning, habitat restoration). CSP pays yearly for conservation you're already doing well. Not sure which fits? That's what NRCS staff are for. 🌲
"You know your land best. Tell the NRCS what you think it needs, and work through it with that mindset." Wade Christensen, Cow Creek Band of Umpqua, on what NRCS partnership taught his team. 🌲
"The project was viewed through a cultural lens, coordinating with federal and state partners on their priorities while meeting Cow Creek Umpqua's cultural and ecological needs." — Jason Robison, Cow Creek Umpqua Tribe From our case study earlier this week 🌲
Cow Creek Umpqua reclaimed stressed, overstocked forest with NRCS support — thinning conifers, restoring oak habitat, bringing fire back to the land. The lesson: relationships matter most. Full case study in bio
CSKT Tribal Forestry is hiring 🌲 Multiple positions open: Forestry Aide → Forester II 💰 $15.39–$32.21/hr, DOE 📍 Ronan, MT 🗓️ Closes Aug 31, 2026 Info: (406) 676-3755, Tribal Forestry Office
CSKT Natural Resources Dept. is hiring to inspect waterway structures (docks, bridges, culverts, fish screens) for Shoreline Rules compliance. 📍 Polson, MT 💰 $25.34–$29.13/hr + benefits 🗓️ Closes Aug 24, 2026, 5:30pm MST Info: cskt.org/personnel #CSKT #TribalJobs
The Tule River Tribe used NRCS's Conservation Stewardship Program to restore burned forestland on their reservation. Not a hypothetical. Already happening. See what's possible for your Tribe 🔗 in bio #NRCS #TribalForestry #WildlandFire
Myth: NRCS is only for farmers. Fact: EQIP, CSP, RCPP, and HFRP all fund forest & wildfire work — and Tribes are eligible. The ag-only label is outdated. The funding isn't. 🌲 🔗 in bio #NRCS #TribalForestry #MythBusting
RFP: Tribal Wood Markets Business Development & Investment Contractor 🌲 @SustainableNW + @IntertribalTC seeking a contractor for a 5-yr Tribal wood-products initiative. 💰 $873K 📍 Portland, OR / remote 🗓️ Due Aug 24, 2026 Submit to: dowens@sustainablenorthwest.org
