An assessment of institutional capability, staff, equipment, facilities, and organizational components necessary to support landscape scale management
TASK K
of the specific tribal treaties. The trust responsibility of the US government is a permanent legal obligation to exercise statutory and other legal authorities to protect tribal lands, assets, resources, and treaty rights. The relationship of treaty rights to federal obligations and many of the challenges facing the agencies managing these
relationships were identified in IFMAT III. Additionally, tribes have several opportunities to work directly with government agencies to develop relationships, projects and plans that meet specific objectives. Many of these opportunities exist within programs currently available to tribes such as participation and leadership within the Tribal
Tribes maintain reserved treaty rights as sovereign nations on federal forest lands and have a specific interest in ensuring that federal lands are managed in ways that effectively protect their treaty rights which may include grazing, hunting, fishing, gathering, water, and subsistence rights, depending on the scope and allocation language in each
A TFPA project with the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe for snowshoe hare management in Minnesota. PHOTO CREDIT: ADRIAN LEIGHTON
Task Findings and Recommendations 201
Made with FlippingBook interactive PDF creator