Table F.1. Progress of FMP development on forested reservations. Performance Indicator 1991
2001
2011
2019
Percent of Category 1 & 2 Forested Reservations covered by an FMP Percent of Category 3 & 4 Forested Reservations covered by an FMP Number of Category 1 & 2 Forested Reservations covered by an FMP Number of Category 3 & 4 Forested Reservations covered by FMP
53% 63% 85% 100%
13% 11% 43% 100%
44
64
85
101
6
19
86
215
Total Trust Forested Reservations 316 Source: Status of Forest Management Inventories and Planning database (InFoDat). 2019 (As revised). 214 302 305
Status of Inventories and Management Plans The BIA and tribes have successfully completed forest management plans (FMP) on all forested tribal lands. However, the 2019 Status of Forest Inventories indicates that the plans are not being maintained and updated to reflect changes in tribal vision, changes in environmental conditions, or to address new issues. FIP (Forest Inventory and Planning, formerly BoFRP) records indicate that eight timber and three woodland
lands in 2015, twenty-five years after the passage of NIFRMA. In 2015, furthermore, BIA policy established that FMPs would be “non-expiring” although the 53 IAM Chapter 8 provides guidance for periodic reviews, including an updated Forest Inventory Analysis (FIA). While the data reviewed from the FMIP database (InFoDat) does not totally reflect this accomplishment, IFMAT has been assured that all 316 forested trust reservations have a current FMP (Table F.1). This covers all 19.3 million acres of forest land identified as being in trust.
plans have been updated since 2015 (see table F2 below). This is concerning because new issues such as climate change and carbon sequestration are being addressed. Our review, furthermore, indicate that the hazardous fuel reduction program, which involves vegetation manipulation, is not integrated into the FMP, except in those cases where the Wildfire Plan has been included in the FMP. These and many other issues are important issues to tribal forest managers and should be addressed in the forest management plans.
Table F.2 Date of current FMIP document along with the 53IAM handbook requirements for planning inventories.
Indian Forestry Program – Status of FMIP Programs
Reservations with Timberland Component
Reservations with Woodland Component
Year Approved Inventory
Inventory Analysis
Forest Mgt Plan
Year Approved Inventory
Inventory Analysis
Forest Mgt Plan
IRMP
IRMP
1970-1980 1981-1990 1991-2000
1 1
5 6
1 2
0 1 3
1970-1980 1981-1990 1991-2000 2001-2010 2011-2015 2016-2020
0 1
1 0
0 5 9 4 3 0
0 1 3
49
46 79 33
29 84 64
42 50 41
12 82 78
2001-2010 106
16
16
2011-2015 2016-2020
29
5 0
5 0
3
1
8
4
3
Total
189 123
170
188
25
Total
138
176
21
25
Current
n/a
n/a
n/a
Current
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Not Done
38
57
39
202
Not Done
72
34
189
202
Current timber inventories for Category 1&2 are years 2004-2019 (53IAM, Chapter 8). Current woodland inventories for all program Categories are 2000-2019 (53IAM Chapter 8). Source: Status of FMIP 2019 (InFoDat, as revised)
Task Findings and Recommendations 125
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