Little Miss Siletz runner-up Cambria
Stokes with her sponsor, Shantel Peacock,
representing the Siletz Tribe at this year’s
Grand Round pow-wow.
Happy 13 th Birthday, Moises and
Zaire! Dad, Mom and Alita wish you the
very best in everything you do! We’re so
proud of your educational, soccer and
jiu-jitsu accomplishments. Keep up the
hard work.
Photos by Diane Rodriquez
Randy Storms (left), Tribal emergency preparedness coordinator, participates
in the first of two Readiness Fairs sponsored by Lincoln County Emergency
Management on Sept. 17. He provided all kinds of information to help people
get ready to survive after a disaster, plus had a taste test of various kinds of high
energy survival bars – which may or may not have a lot of flavor – that included
voting on your favorite one.
Free child ID kits from the Oregon State Police
503-934-0188 or 800-282-7155; child.idkits@state.or.us
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OSU College of Forestry, Pacific Northwest Tribes team up on $5 million forest restoration project
By Steve Lundeberg, Oregon State
University
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Faculty in the
Oregon State University College of For-
estry will team up with Pacific Northwest
Tribal nations on a three-year forest res-
toration effort with a goal of improving
the resilience of the region’s woodlands
to climate change through Traditional
Ecological Knowledge.
The U.S. Department of the Interior is
funding the $5 million pilot project, which
will include collecting the seeds of cultur-
ally and ecologically significant plants on
Bureau of Land Management lands.
“We will also be assessing soil
processes and forest understory and
overstory structure, as well as wildlife
habitat,” said Cristina Eisenberg, the
college’s new associate dean for inclusive
excellence and director of Tribal initia-
tives. “All work will be done using TEK
best practices and we want this to become
part of a longer-term project.”
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Potential Tribal partners include
the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower
Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, the Con-
federated Tribes of Grand Ronde, the
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians , the
Coquille Indian Tribe and the Cow Creek
Band of Umpqua Indians.
“We will engage each of these
Tribal nations individually, co-creating
partnerships that best ref lect their
unique community needs,” Eisenberg
said. “The BLM is giving us the flex-
ibility to adapt our project to best meet
the needs of our partners.”
Traditional Ecological Knowledge is
the accumulation of information, prac-
tices and beliefs about relationships and
environmental functions, including all ele-
ments, species and processes within eco-
systems, said Eisenberg, a first-generation
Latinx and Native American (Apache and
Rarámuri) scholar who holds a doctorate
from the College of Forestry.
TEK is acquired over multiple Indig-
enous generations through direct contact
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with the environment, she said. It is used
in life-sustaining pursuits such as hunting,
fishing, trapping, agriculture and forestry
and as a means of assessing environmental
health. TEK also encompasses the world
view of Indigenous peoples, she added,
including ecology, spirituality and human,
plant and animal connections.
“We want to engage and empower
Tribal youth to help find solutions to the
pressing conservation problems we are
facing in Oregon and beyond,” Eisenberg
said. “A goal is to provide as many job
and educational opportunities as possible
for Tribal youth within the college. We
also hope to foster a Tribal seed-growing
business, to build on work that has already
been done by some Tribal nations, and we
will co-create an ecocultural restoration
plan for federal land.”
Co-principal investigators on the
grant include soil scientist Tom DeLuca,
the Cheryl Ramberg-Ford and Allyn C.
Ford Dean of the College of Forestry;
Chris Dunn, a fire ecologist in the college;
restoration ecologist Tom Kaye, director
of the Institute for Applied Ecology; and
soil scientist Si Gao of Sacramento State
University.
“We’ll follow the Department of
the Interior’s National Seed Strategy
and Plant Conservation and Restoration
Program protocols to collect the seeds,”
Eisenberg said. “The data collected will
not be made publicly available without
permission of the Tribal nations involved.”
Non-Tribal partners include Forest
Bridges and the Society for Ecological
Restoration.
About the OSU College of Forestry
For a century, the College of Forestry
has been a world class center of teaching,
learning and research. It offers graduate
and undergraduate degree programs in
sustaining ecosystems, managing forests
and manufacturing wood products; con-
ducts basic and applied research on the
nature and use of forests; and operates
more than 15,000 acres of college forests.