Tailyr Irvine / High Country News and Grist That’s the case with Washington’s Trust Land Transfer program, which facilitates exchanges of land that the state’s Department of Natural ...

That’s the case with Washington’s Trust Land Transfer program, which facilitates exchanges of land that the state’s Department of Natural Resources, or DNR, deems unproductive. Those lands are ...

An investigation by Grist and High Country News reveals how public institutions benefit from extractive industries on tribal ...

but the process is complicated by the state’s obligation to produce as much money as possible from trust lands for its beneficiaries. At the forefront are Washington, which is currently ...

DNR manages more than two million acres of forested state trust lands for long-term timber production, specific habitat objectives, and protection of clean, abundant water and to provide carbon ...

would transfer the land, known as Allotment 1157, to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to be held in trust for the benefit of the Quinaults. The Quinault Indian Reservation was set aside for the ...

According to the analysis, the state trust lands in question are spread ... have completed or are in the process of returning land to Indigenous control through various means. “At the forefront are ...