Awarded Grants

This project will provide board training to help the board of directors govern and guide the organization. This project will help the Executive Director expand her expertise in best practices and standards in decision-making, management, and strategic visioning with both board and staff.

The Pit River Greenhouse aims to address food security issues with a sustainable food system based on community agriculture and food harvesting for its nearly 4,000 Tribal membership.

This project will help retain and increase cultural and ecological knowledge by engaging Wôpanâak and intertribal families in land-based learning through traditional mentoring. It will leverage foodways, traditional language, housing practices to build relationships and restore cultural lifeways.

This project provides support for strategic planning meetings to enter into negotiations with public land managers for protection of our shared homeland and the creation of a federal government to tribal government co-stewardship agreement to manage traditional homelands using traditional practices.

The project restores forests and waters, protects sacred mountains, promotes medicinal plants, and reduces wildfire hazard to tribal communities and recreation areas through restorative stewardship of the border between the tribe’s reservation and the Apache National Forest.

Through this project, the tribe is developing a thinning prescription for federal lands that results in forest complexity for treaty resources, increases participation in federal forest management, and leverages an existing collaborative that is striving to improve forest structure for wildlife.

The purpose of this project is to expand GIS capacity to meet increasing mapping and spatial analysis needs for natural resource management, improving planning, project implementation, and enhancing current and future US Forest Service funded projects.