Saving the Brown Ash: Success Through Partnership & Trust
Tyler Everett, a Passamaquoddy forester and Forestry Resilience Specialist at United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc., shares how the Wabanaki Confederacy is protecting brown ash — a tree woven into their cultural identity, traditional knowledge, family history, and spiritual life — from the invasive emerald ash borer. This is what's possible when Indigenous knowledge and federal conservation programs work together.