nAppendix iin NTFP Interview Protocol Interview Materials ■ Protocol ■ Notebook with plenty of paper ■ >2 pens Introduction (follows the principle of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent) Thank you for agreeing to talk today about the importance of fishing, gathering, and hunting for your tribe and any ways your tribe actively manages them. This will be the first time these forest products are included in IFMAT and the information you share will be very important. We recognize the right of you and your tribe to choose the information you share and how that information is used. We also understand that some species and practices are sacred and information should not be shared. If at any point you feel you have just shared information that you do not want to be used in our analysis for the IFMAT report, please let me/us know and I/we will strike it from the notes. We will send you the notes from this interview to give you the opportunity to correct any errors and request removal of any information you may later decide is sensitive. We will use the information you and approximately 39 other tribes across the United States provide. When we do that, we will identify the tribes that participated but all information will be combined and reported in the aggregate. No information will be explicitly identified with an individual tribe. If you are comfortable with this approach, I/we would be grateful to begin the interview now. With your permission, I/we would like to take notes while we talk so I/we capture all the important information you share. The interview covers 14 questions. We could complete it 30-45 minutes but we are finding that this is such a large and important topic that the conversation generally goes on longer than that. If we can’t finish it today and you are willing, we can make arrangements to talk again at another time. Do you have any questions or concerns before we get started? (Answer or note questions and concerns and agree to get back to the interviewee)
Questions Q1. We’re interested in the larger importance of forests for your tribe. What is the importance of fishing, gathering, and hunting for your tribe? Q2. Recognizing that some [animal, plant, fish, and mushrooms] species and uses are sacred and information about them should not be shared, of the species you can talk about freely, which are the most important for your tribe? Why? Q3. Are any of these species sold raw or without value-added processing in formal or informal markets by tribal members? By non-tribal members? If so, what are they used for? If you know, what is the range of prices your tribal members would typically be paid for them? What would be a high- end price and a low-end price? [interannual and intrannual] Q4. Are any of these species used to produce value- added products like baskets or jams? If you know, what is the range of prices your tribal members would typically be paid for them? What would be a high-end price and a low-end price? Q5. How does your tribe manage fishing, gathering, and hunting by tribal and non-tribal members? What are the main objectives? Q6. What successes has your tribe had in managing fishing, gathering, and hunting? To what do you attribute that success? Q7. What challenges has your tribe encountered with its program(s) to manage fishing, gathering, and hunting? What resources, if any, would help you address those challenges? Q8. Have you observed or do you anticipate any effects on tribal fishing, gathering, and hunting and to your program(s) from climate change? Q9. How many people work in your program(s) for managing fishing, gathering, and/or hunting? In what roles? Q10. If you can share this information, do(es) your program(s) generate any revenues for the tribe? Q11. What is the cost to administer and enforce for your program(s) for managing fishing, gathering, and/or hunting?
Would it be okay if we start the interview now, then?
A-18 Assessment of Indian Forests and Forest Management in the United States
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