Task K Findings and Recommendations
K1 Finding
Recommendation Forestry staffing vacancies need to be addressed. ■ Tribes in some cases have identified and filled key personnel for cross-boundary projects when funding and staffing are available. ■ Recurring Funding needs to be identified for meeting staffing needs over the long term on tribal lands before tribes can engage in cross boundary projects (see Task C). Recommendation ■ Tribes and federal agencies need to incentivize staff that successfully move collaborative and co-management processes forward (see Task J). ■ OPM and performance evaluations need to be implemented for regional foresters, district rangers and others that successfully utilize collaborative and co-management processes.
Tribes lack the personnel, capacity, and funding to enter cross-boundary landscape-scale management. Tribes need to fulfill local, and reservation needs before they can engage in co-management of adjacent resources.
K2 Finding
A champion is needed on the tribal side as well as on the federal side to keep the collaborative process moving forward (Anchor Forest Report 2016, IFMAT III recommendation).
An active wildfire salvage sale on the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Flathead Reservation in Montana. PHOTO CREDIT VINCENT CORRAO.
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