Forest Protection Act (TFPA), Good Neighbor Authority (GNA), Reserved Treaty Rights Lands (RTRL), and Federal 638 contracting. These provide unique and long-term investment opportunities to increase the health and resiliency of forest landscapes, leverage tribal permanence-of-management,
and support traditional cultural practices and knowledge. The Anchor Forest concept first identified in IFMAT III envisioned a broader view of including the tribal, public, and private forest with the attempts to integrate a stewardship of ecological processes across
the landscape. It took into consideration changes in forest management, harvesting, and transportation infrastructure in the vicinity of reservations and the potential for Indian forests to become “anchors” of forest infrastructure. The Anchor Forest report, published in March 2016, identified opportunities, barriers, and recommendations for implementation of sustainable forest ecosystems through cross- boundary and landscape-scale collaborative management. The goal was to achieve sustainability through a balance of social, ecological, and economic considerations by applying stewardship centered on vision, commitment, and available capabilities across landscapes. The Anchor Forest concept and collaborative structures can help bridge tribal, federal, and other relationships while leveraging some of the new technology tools of the 21st century. New inventory products using satellite imagery and Lidar can improve the analysis conducted in the ESA and NEPA process assisting in making decisions involving environmental performance and mitigation needs. Task K represents an investigation into the capabilities of tribes to enter landscape-scale management projects and identify the opportunities and challenges that support implementation.
Lumber products from the Hoopa Valley Tribal harvest and milling operations in California. PHOTO CREDIT: VINCENT CORRAO
“How did our ancestors create the ecosystems that they lived in? The big yellow pine are a testament to our ancestors.” —IFMAT IV focus group participant
202 Assessment of Indian Forests and Forest Management in the United States
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