Community Partner Spotlight: Penobscot Nation 

Last week, First Nations Stewarding Native Lands team visited the Penobscot Nation Department of Natural Resources to see up close how they are stewarding Wabanakik, the ancestral lands of the Wabanaki people. The Penobscot Department of Natural Resources manages tribal lands and resources by centering traditional knowledge, creating youth learning opportunities, and employing sustainable management strategies. The department manages over 128,000 acres of reservation, trust, and fee land. With support through First Nations’ Community Navigator Project, they are growing their organizational capacity to steward those lands. Currently the Nation is working hard to return an additional 30,000 acres to tribal stewardship, one of the largest land returns of its kind, while reconnecting people to Indigenous homelands. Read more here.