Task K Findings and Recommendations
K3 Finding
Recommendation ■ Personnel need to be incentivized to engage in collaborative work and encourage sufficient tenure to complete projects that improve landscape management. ■ As personnel leave positions a checklist of duties and responsibilities needs to be completed. This information should link existing work with new personnel and should be approved before the transition is made. Recommendation ■ Cross-boundary management takes committed staff that support cooperation and collaboration and those that do not favor tribal engagement should not be allowed to hinder activities. ■ Clarify the federal agencies’ views on co-management and co-stewardship and include the tribes in funding discussions regarding these projects. Recommendation Tribes willing to engage in cross-boundary and landscape management should have the opportunity to retain receipts and be funded at the same level as the states. Recommendation ■ The eligible uses for RTRL funds need clarification from the BIA on when these funds can extend onto trust lands. ■ RTRL funds can be used on trust lands under certain conditions.
Turnover of district rangers, planners and other federal employees engaged in the collaborative process hinders the tribe’s ability to effectively manage cross- boundary landscape-scale projects.
K4 Finding
Some federal employees do not support TFPA or GNA and it takes cooperation and collaboration from all sides to implement projects.
K5 Finding
Unlike the states, GNA currently does not provide revenues to the tribe on projects and the tribes do not have additional funding and personnel to conduct these projects.
K6 Finding
RTRL funds are helpful, but the understanding is that they can only be used on federal lands adjacent to trust lands.
204 Assessment of Indian Forests and Forest Management in the United States
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