The piece highlights the leadership of Indigenous forest stewards at Menominee Tribal Enterprises, emphasizing their guiding principle—“forest first, people second, profit last”—and recounts a symbolic planting and delegation visit during Earth Week that underscored intergenerational care, land-based knowledge, and self-determined forest management.

The Board wrapped up its Q2 2025 meeting with a field visit to a working forest in southern Washington, pairing governance discussions with on-the-ground experience of forest operations and supply-chain realities.

The organization held a regional stakeholder meeting and strategic work session in Minneapolis on April 1 2025, bringing together certificate-holders, promotional license-holders, natural-resource agencies, and academic partners to engage on the revision of the U.S. forest-stewardship standard.