Task F Findings and Recommendations
F3 Finding
Recommendation ■ Merge the timberland and woodland components into one forest-wide plan. ■ Forest management plans need to be better linked to transportation plans to ensure that forest protection is possible. ■ Plans that incorporate all tribal lands into a single plan will better serve tribes than individual plans for trust and non-trust land.
Forest Management plans need to integrate all aspects of the forest management operations into one plan. ■ There is a desire amongst tribal foresters to continue interdisciplinary approaches. ■ Separating timberland and woodland components on a forest creates gaps in management planning. ■ Many Forest Management plans do not integrate hazardous fuels treatments. ■ Few forest plans have a cohesive plan for management of timberlands and woodlands combined. ■ Tribes cannot integrate tribal non-trust lands into the forest-wide plan. ■ Forest planning models show little integration with transportation plans. ■ A recent BIA assessment estimated that there was a transportation investment backlog of $1.33 billion to implement active management and provide for forest protection. ■ FMPs are not including carbon sequestration tribal goals BEFORE agreements are developed. The BIA does not have standard protocols for the accounting of carbon.
A cypress swamp on lands of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. PHOTO CREDIT: ADRIAN LEIGHTON
132 Assessment of Indian Forests and Forest Management in the United States
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