Discussion of silviculture prescriptions at the Grand Ronde site visit in Oregon. PHOTO CREDIT: VINCENT CORRAO
tribal staff in each decade since the 1993 IFMAT assessment, in the 8 years since the last F&PA data call, there has been an 11% reduction in tribal forestry staff, the first decline recorded by IFMAT. A 2023 workforce data call also revealed that there were only 94 professional foresters (OPM 460 series qualified) on the BIA staff, of which 20 were at the GS 9 or lower pay scale. Overall, there is one forestry professional per 40,000 acres of trust land, an increase of 10,000 acres per professional since IFMAT III. When overall forestry staffing is compared (Figure C.2) it can be seen that tribes/BIA staff manage twice the acreage of their National Forest system counterparts and over 6 times that of the BLM. The relative proportion of fire to total forestry and fire staff jumped in 2001 from 27% in 1991 to 51% in 2001. In 2011, 41% of all BIA and tribal forestry and fire staff were performing fire and fuels related jobs, and this has
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Figure C.2. Comparison of number of acres per forestry staff (2019). Staffing by Staff Level – Federal and Tribal and Fire/Forestry – Professional Only
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Figure C.3. Change in number of BIA and Tribal professional forestry and fire employees over time.
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