nAppendix xivn BIA Regional Office Visit Questions 1. What do you feel are the most pressing issues in your region? 2. How well are you supported by the BIA central office and by the DOI?
FMPs? How many have IRMPs? How are IRMPs being funded? 5. Are you receiving the level of assistance you need from BoFRP? If you need more, what are your specific needs? 6. What is your office doing to support climate change adaptation planning in your region? How severe will the impacts be in your region compared to others? Are regeneration plans coordinated with climate adaptation plans at the tribal and regional levels? 7. How will ITARA affect your forest management planning and approval of tribal management plans? 8. Are you familiar with the Forest Service Watershed Framework for evaluating watershed treatment priorities? If it is useful, who would provide regional leadership? 9. How is the AAC being defined in your region? Are there changes that would increase its usefulness? Do you regard non-declining even flow as a necessary component of AAC calculation?) Within your Region, what are the most significant impediments to harvesting the full Allowable Annual Cut (AAC)? 10. Does your Region provide harvest scheduling support? If so, how? Would contracting for field work or compliance work be a more frequently if Forestry and Fire was allowed to have it’s own Contracting Officer? 11. Does your region provide ecosystem services (i.e. carbon, water) planning support? Staffing (we need organization chart) 12. Do you have the regional staff you need to carry out your responsibilities? 13. Who provides wildlife and watershed regional expertise to the tribes? 14. How many vacancies do you have? In what positions? How long does it take to fill a vacancy? Are you satisfied, in general, with quality of applicants for open positions? 15. Are there any services or positions that need to be provided to the tribes that currently aren’t available (e.g., wildlife biologists, hydrologists, economists, forest products marketing specialists)?
Self-governance 1. Is compacting and contracting reducing delivery of BIA services to direct service tribes? If so, why? 2. What opportunities and challenges do see for tribes implementing ITARA? 3. What challenges do you see for the regional office regarding ITARA? Will ITARA make your life easier or harder? Landscape Management 1. What are the opportunities for the Regional Office to promote shared stewardship and landscape management in your region? Are there intertribal, interagency and tribal/private efforts to implement landscape management? Can you provide examples in your region? 2. What are the leading forest health issues in your region? What leadership does the Region provide to the tribes? How are forest health funds distributed? 3. Do tribes in your region have sufficient access to research on forest health, new technological developments, and other issues (tech transfer)? What are your research needs? What are the BIA investments in advancing new technologies (e.g. Forest inventory, tree census, Lidar and satellite imagery accuracy improvement and cost reduction) a. § Fuels profiles b. § Growth modeling c. § Risk rating d. § Cost Avoidance calculations e. § Interdisciplinary data use Forest planning 3. What is the status of forest inventories in your region? Does the RO provide inventory expertise to tribes? What kind and how much? 4. What is the status of forest management plans in your region? Do all tribes have valid
Appendix xiv — BIA Regional Office Visit Questions A-87
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