After the meeting, I wrote to Jonna. I wrote another proposal to ODOT. I tried every angle to get some kind of foothold, some kind of stability, some kind of acknowledgment that what we had built mattered. No go. No positive responses. Nothing.

That’s when I learned about tacit agreements — the…Read more

After the meeting, I wrote to Jonna. I wrote another proposal to ODOT. I tried every angle to get some kind of foothold, some kind of stability, some kind of acknowledgment that what we had built mattered. No go. No positive responses. Nothing.

That’s when I learned about tacit agreements — the…Read more

After the meeting with the governor’s office, we had no plan. We had exhausted every avenue. Every contact. Every proposal. Every strategy. And instead of staying together and standing as one, we were split. Some went to the Big Island.…Read more

When the meeting began, we stated our ask clearly. We opened the table with our proposal, our documentation, and our lived experience. We pleaded our case. We explained the history, the community, the stewardship, the 8 years of stability, and the generational continuity that mad…Read more

When the meeting began, we stated our ask clearly. We opened the table with our proposal, our documentation, and our lived experience. We pleaded our case. We explained the history, the community, the stewardship, the 8 years of stability, and the generational continuity that mad…Read more

During this period, Michael and I…Read more

June 5th was the day everything began. We had been preparing for weeks — weekly meetings, sharing information, coordinating with each other, building communication lines. I was working on the injunction and the first co‑stewardship proposal, finished and ready. We weren’t unprepared. We weren’t disorgani…Read more