December 4, 2024

Braiding Indigenous and Western Knowledge for Climate-Adapted Forests: An Ecocultural State of Science Report

"Braiding Indigenous and Western Knowledge for Climate-Adapted Forests: An Ecocultural State of Science Report" advocates for a new approach to forest management that integrates Indigenous knowledge systems with Western science, creating a "braided" understanding to develop climate-resilient forest restoration strategies, drawing on the deep ecological knowledge of Indigenous peoples alongside the analytical power of Western scientific methods to better adapt forests to changing climate conditions, prioritizing place-based stewardship practices and acknowledging the interconnectedness between cultural and ecological systems for long-term forest health.

December 4, 2024

CFLRP Peer Learning Session: Advancing Restoration in Unique Ecosystems

Peer Learning Session Objectives  - Learn about unique landscape features and creative management approaches in CFLR projects. - Consider how applications of site-specific research and subject matter expertise result in restoration of key areas that have outsized impacts on landscapes or ecosystems. - Solicit feedback from the landscape restoration Peer Learning community to help inform topics and direction for the next series of peer learning sessions. Suggested Audience  The suggested audience for this session includes collaborative groups, Forest Service staff, and partners and alumni of the CFLR Program.

December 4, 2024

CFLRP Peer Learning Session: Arc of a CFLRP Project

Peer Learning Session Objectives  - Engage with CFLRP practitioners and hear lessons learned from long-term forest restoration projects. - Learn how social dynamics and partnerships drove accomplishments and how challenges were overcome. - Learn about landscape scale change over time, and how management strategies evolve over the long term. Suggested Audience  The suggested audience for this session includes collaborative groups and participants, US Forest Service staff, practitioners and planners of landscape-scale restoration work, and partners and alumni of CFLR Programs.

October 21, 2024

Sovereign-to-Sovereign Cooperative Agreements

Cooperative agreements can establish collaborative intergovernmental relationships for the purpose of managing public lands. This webpage from the University of Washington's School of Law outlines key mechanisms available to Tribal Nations and federal agencies to create or maintain such relationships. These tools differ in terms of purpose and scope, including the distinction between co-management and co-stewardship, which is not always clear. DOI and USDA’s reaffirmed commitment to co-stewardship presents opportunities for the meaningful integration of Tribal and federal interests in public lands management. Accordingly, this section adopts a distinction between two categories of agreements: 1) those that establish decision making and management protocols and governing arrangements and 2) those that focus more on funding and project-level activities.

October 21, 2024

Tribal Forest Protection Act (TFPA) Projects in the Lake States

ArcGIS StoryMap of current TFPA project examples in the Great Lakes area in Eastern Region of the Forest Service.

October 21, 2024

Tribal Forest Protection Act (TFPA): Reports & resources from the Intertribal Timber Council

The Tribal Forest Protection Act (TFPA) was passed in 2004. The purpose of the TFPA is to protect tribal trust lands at risk and restore lands administrated by the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management such as catastrophic fires, insects, and disease. The passage of the 2018 Farm Bill provided, for the first time, authority for the Forest Service to execute "638" agreements to undertake TFPA work under the Indian Self-Determination Education and Assistance Act (Public Law 93-638). Forest Service 638 authority was initiated as a demonstration effort. Forest Service, ITC and various Tribes are working to expand the use and availability of this and other authorities. Find resources and reports around the TFPA here.

October 21, 2024

General Partnering in Research about Land Management with Tribal Nations: Insights from the Pacific West

Steen-Adams, Michelle M.; Lake, Frank K.; Jones, Chas E. Jr.; Kruger, Linda E. 2023. Multiple aspects of forest land management present research partnership opportunities for the USDA Forest Service and Tribal Nations. These aspects include forests, fuels, and ecocultural resources that often are appropriate to manage at the landscape scale. The main topics of this report are partnership benefits and challenges, effective practices, partnership models, and the partnership-building process.

October 1, 2024

Tribal Partnership Comparison Matrix

This Tribal Partnership Comparison Matrix from the US Forest Service serves to aid in the decision-making and implementation of Shared Stewardship and partnership strategies between Tribal Nations, the Forest Service, and other partners. This Matrix explores several ways in which Tribes can engage in work with the Forest Service and delineates factors that uniquely impact Tribal Nations as sovereign entities. Project type, partner requests, trust land adjacency, and other criteria will all affect the decision to pursue any given agreement tool.

October 1, 2024

Cultural Landscape Training Path

This series of trainings from the US Forest Service is for anyone who is working in land management that is interested in learning more about Indigenous perspectives. Click the link to explore the collection of videos and resources.

October 1, 2024

Indian Country 101: An online Tribal engagement training series

The development of the Indian Country (IC) Tribal engagement series from The Nature Conservancy and the Whitener Group was grounded in the understanding that you can’t work with Tribes in the United States without first outlining the long and complicated history of Tribes and Tribal governments. The mantra became “effective Tribal engagement starts with knowledge and context.” IC was developed as two courses; 101 lays out the history and context for Tribal engagement across the country, while course 102 builds upon the fundamentals, focusing specifically on Tribes located in Washington State.

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Braiding Indigenous and Western Knowledge for Climate-Adapted Forests: An Ecocultural State of Science Report

CFLRP Peer Learning Session: Advancing Restoration in Unique Ecosystems

CFLRP Peer Learning Session: Arc of a CFLRP Project

Sovereign-to-Sovereign Cooperative Agreements

Tribal Forest Protection Act (TFPA) Projects in the Lake States

Tribal Forest Protection Act (TFPA): Reports & resources from the Intertribal Timber Council

General Partnering in Research about Land Management with Tribal Nations: Insights from the Pacific West

Tribal Partnership Comparison Matrix

Cultural Landscape Training Path

Indian Country 101: An online Tribal engagement training series