Quarterly Webinars
Join us each quarter for a free webinar that is designed to foster connection among agroforestry practitioners and partners, while increasing awareness of programs and services available to Tribes and Indigenous land stewards.
Scroll down to watch recordings of past webinars — March 2025, June 2025, and December 2025 are now live.
March 2026 Webinar
On March 18, 2026, Dr. Frank Lake, Ryan Reed, and Monique Wynecoop shared shared how Tribes in California and Washington are leading the revitalization of cultural and prescribed burning as essential land stewardship practices. Grounded in lived experience, their stories highlighted not only the ecological benefits of fire, but its deep cultural importance, and the critical lessons it offers as wildfire seasons grow more severe.
Links shared by March webinar participants
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Good Fire Podcast, with Monique Wynecoop
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Fire Generation Collaborative
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Good Fire Podcast, with Ryan Reed
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L.I.G.H.T: Roots for the Future Initiative
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Minnesota Prescribed Burning Association
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Red Bird Camp Collective
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Nature Immersion Program
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Spoke Tribal Network
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Fire Networks: Indigenous Peoples Burning Network
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Article: Invasive fruit fly hits the Yakama Nation huckleberry fields
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Northwest Forest Plan Advisory Committee
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The Global Wildfire Collective
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Fire Resilience Futures: Workforces, Careers, and Livelihoods in the Western U.S.
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Kalahari Fires- Short story
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Article: Modern science needs traditional knowledge
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Blog Post: Ryan Reed Received Ecotrust’s Indigenous Leadership Emerging Leader Award in 2025
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Northern Rockies Fire Science Network- 2025 Fire and Fuels Monitoring Workshop recordings
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Selkirk Prescribed Fire Training
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After the Flames Conference April 2026
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Elderberry Wisdom Farm is hiring!
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Focused Indigenous Restoration Environmental Stewardship (F.I.R.E.S.)
December 2025 Webinar
On December 3, 2025 Carrie Brausieck, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Agroforestry Northwest, and Linzie Crofoot, Northwest Indigenous Ethnobotanist and Ecologist with Agroforestry Northwest. Together, they shared insights from the organization’s Biocultural Restoration Initiative, which integrates regenerative agroforestry, Indigenous land stewardship, and the arts to strengthen ecological resilience and cultural relationships across the Pacific Northwest.
Links shared by December webinar participants
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Touch Soil | Substack
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Agroforestry Northwest
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Indigenous Cropping Systems Laboratory
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Māla Kalu’ulu Cooperative
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Hawai’i ‘Ulu Cooperative
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Skyskomish Field Station Registration (2026)
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Agroforestry Northwest Listserv
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California Agroforestry Network
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King Conservation District
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Forest Biomass Learning Network | Brad@globaloceanhealth.org
June 2025 Webinar
On June 11, 2025, the featured speakers Patricia Green (Squaxin Island Tribe) of Squaxin Island Tribe Community Garden and Nick Schneider, Margaret Kreder, and Sabina Ahmed of Mason Mason Conservation District discussed the partnership between the two organizations.
Links shared by June webinar participants
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Black Folkways Marketplace | Eureka, CA
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Salish Roots Agroforestry
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Cultural Foods Ways Network | Arcata, CA | July 12 - Sept. 13 (Every Saturday), 10am-5pm
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The Whitener Group
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The Whitener Group (Training)
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Tribal Trust Responsibility (USDA)
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History of Federal Tribal Relationships (USDA)
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Tend, Gather & Grow Curriculum
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Sustainable Agriculture Lands | Conservation (SALC) | Grant Program
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Funding resource: Tribal Producer or Program Needs | Grant/Tech Support | naomie@indianag.org
March 2025 webinar
On March 25, 2025, Stephanie Gutierrez (San Carlos Apache), Forest and Community Program Director at Ecotrust, led a webinar, “Indigenous Agroforestry in the Northwest,” that explored key findings from the Indigenous Agroforestry Survey Report. This is the first in a series of quarterly webinars from the Indigenous Agroforestry Network.
Links shared by March webinar participants
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Bill Tripp Video Interview on Yale Forest Forums
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Forest History Today Magazine with article about Harold Weaver; photos of fire on reservation in 1930 and 1940
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Savanna Institute Agroforestry Resources
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Portland region community stewardship and community science opportunities & ways to stay in touch with your elected officials
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Interested in selling big leaf maple? Patrick Shults can provide technical assistance
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USDA National Agroforestry Center (NAC) is a collection of agroforestry-related tools and information sources. NAC hosts a vast library of publications, photos, and other media that can be browsed and downloaded.
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Center for Environmental Rights
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NRCS - Indigenous Stewardship Evaluations- CEMA 222, provides Tribes and tribal organizations financial assistance to develop written plans (i.e. cultural burns, food sovereignty plan, community garden plan, etc.)
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USDA & NRCS hosted a webinar to provide an introduction to using Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and use of CEMA 222, Indigenous Stewardship Methods and Evaluation to accomplish effective conservation on tribal lands.
NRCS funding resources
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Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS) provides free technical assistances and financial assistance through cost-share incentive payments
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NRCS’s most popular program is the Environmental Quality Incentives Program | Natural Resources Conservation Service (EQIP)
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NRCS offers “CSP Enhancements, Bundles and Supplemental Payments | Natural Resources Conservation Service through the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), which is a program that typically follows after completing an EQIP project
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Indigenous Agroforestry related NRCS CSP enhancement activities: facilitating oak forest regeneration (E666J)
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Indigenous Agroforestry related NRCS CSP enhancement activities: crop tree management for mast production (E666I)
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Indigenous Agroforestry related NRCS CSP enhancement activities: sequential patch burning (E338C)
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Indigenous Agroforestry related NRCS CSP enhancement activities: cultural plantings (E612E)