Task D Findings and Recommendations
D10 Finding
Recommendation ■ Provide tribal leaders with the training and support necessary to ensure forest management issues are understood and are being addressed. ■ Provide forest managers with the tools and training they need to communicate the program needs with tribal leaders. ■ Where it does not exist, consider outlining the roles and responsibilities of a Timber Committee or Natural Resource Sub- Committee to address forest related issues, such as creating an opportunity for economic and timber resources education. ■ Following an independent assessment of harvesting costs, those results should be shared with tribal councils so they can fully understand the cost associated with decisions for tribal employment and social programs. ■ Provide additional training to tribal leadership on the development and implementation of the forest management plan for a better understanding of alternatives. ■ Work with tribal loggers to better understand business practices to ensure the best harvest costs are attained. Recommendation ■ The BIA/tribes should explore alternatives to bring in industry that can support the forest products available off tribal lands. ■ Tribes may want to join efforts to secure industry within a local area. Developing Cooperatives and combining available timber volumes will increase economic feasibility. ■ The BIA needs to reinitiate a forest products marketing program to maximize tribal timber sales (D8) including thinning to not only provide volume but also to reduce stocking and improve wildfire resiliency ■ BIA/tribes need to explore other revenue options such as carbon, biofuels, biomass use, water, wildlife, recreation, TFP (e.g., maple syrup), or other natural resource uses.
Tribal Councils find it difficult to fully understand the needs of the forestry programs. ■ Tribal councils often must address many other issues and needs as the governing body, resulting in not being able to address forest management issues until they become urgent. ■ Tribes making decisions on tribal logging are having to trade off economics and written or unwritten tribal employment policies and social programs.
D11 Finding
Many areas within tribal communities do not have sufficient log markets to support a viable wood products economy that will support the necessary forest management treatments.
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