(C) forest land development, including forestation, thinning, tree improvement activities, and the use of silvicultural treatments to restore or increase growth and yield to the full productive capacity of the forest environment; (D) protection against losses from wildfire, including acquisition and maintenance of fire fighting equipment and fire detection systems, construction of firebreaks, hazard reduction, prescribed burning, and the development of cooperative wildfire management agreements; (E) protection against insects and disease, including— (i) all aspects of detection and evaluation, (ii) preparation of project proposals containing project description, environmental assessments and statements, and cost-benefit analyses necessary to secure funding, (iii) field suppression operations, and (iv) reporting; (F) assessment of damage caused by forest trespass, infestation or fire, including field examination and survey, damage appraisal, investigation assistance, and report, demand letter, and testimony preparation; (G) all aspects of the preparation, administration, and supervision of timber sale contracts, paid and free use permits, and other Indian forest product harvest sale documents including— (i) cruising, product marking, silvicultural prescription, appraisal and harvest supervision, (ii) forest product marketing assistance, including evaluation of marketing and development opportunities related to Indian forest products and consultation and advice to tribes, tribal and Indian enterprises on maximization of return on forest products, (iii) archeological, historical, environmental and other land management reviews, clearances, and analyses, (iv) advertising, executing, and supervising contracts, (v) marking and scaling of timber, and (vi) collecting, recording and distributing receipts from sales; (H) provision of financial assistance for the education of Indians enrolled in accredited programs of postsecondary and postgraduate forestry and forestry-related fields of study, including the provision of scholarships, internships, relocation assistance, and other forms of assistance to cover educational expenses; (I) participation in the development and implementation of tribal integrated resource management plans, including activities to coordinate current and future multiple uses of Indian forest lands; (J) improvement and maintenance of extended season primary and secondary Indian forest land road systems; and (K) research activities to improve the basis for determining appropriate management measures to apply to Indian forest lands; (5) “forest management plan” means the principal document, approved by the Secretary, reflecting and consistent with a tribal integrated resource management plan, which provides for the regulation of the detailed, multiple-use operation of Indian forest land by methods assuring that such lands remain in a continuously productive state while meeting the objectives of the tribe and which shall include— (A) standards setting forth the funding and staffing requirements necessary to carry out each management plan, with a report of current forestry funding and staffing levels; and (B) standards providing quantitative criteria to evaluate performance against the objectives set forth in the plan; (6) “forest product” means— (A) timber, (B) a timber product, including lumber, lath, crating, ties, bolts, logs, pulpwood, fuelwood, posts, poles and split products, (C) bark, (D) Christmas trees, stays, branches, firewood, berries, mosses, pinyon nuts, roots, acorns, syrups, wild rice, and herbs, (E) other marketable material, and (F) gravel which is extracted from, and utilized on, Indian forest lands; (7) “forest resources” means all the benefits derived from Indian forest lands, including forest products, soil productivity, water, fisheries, wildlife, recreation, and aesthetic or other traditional values of Indian forest lands; (8) “forest trespass” means the act of illegally removing forest products from, or illegally damaging forest products on, forest lands;
Appendix i – National Indian Forest Resources Management Act Statute Legal Authority A-3
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