Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation Community-owned Forests June 2005

622, 776 acres trust 70, 879 acres tribal fee 36, 305 Individual fee 447, 747 acres Fee 40, 728 acres State 22, 463 acres Federal 344 acres Townsites 1, 243 acres subtotal (59% Tribal) 459, 000 forested acres 76, 155 acres water bodies 236, 000 acres admin. available 1, 317, 389 FIR Total (61% Tribal) Flathead Indian Reservation 57, 000 acres admin. restricted 166, 000 acres admin unavailable

DIRECTION Comprehensive Resources Plan (1996) l Integrated Approach To Resource Management Forest Management Plan (2000) l Integrated Resource Management Fire Management Plan (2005)

Forest and Land Values Sovereignty Economic l l Employment General Fund Ecologic l l l Flora Fauna Hydrologic Cultural / Sociological l l Religious Subsistence Medicinal Educational Language Access Historic Landscape Cultural Pride

Funding Sources General Fund BPA Settlement ARCO Settlement Kerr and Bonneville Dam Mitigation Federal Land Consolidation

Our basic Premise: To manage for diverse and sustainable forests, we must maintain and restore the processes, structures, and functions under which our forests evolved.

Some Ecosystem Management Terms • Fire Regimes We identified four major fire regimes: nonlethal, mixed, lethal, and timberline.

2005 Flathead Indian Reservation Fire Management Plan The Fire Management Plan will provide direct guidance and authorities so specific fire management activities can occur and be compliant with the 2001 Federal Fire Policy, DOI Manual, and the IAM. It will provide the margins for fire operations to meet natural resources and social objectives stated in our Forest Management Plan Our Forest Plan identifies fire as the principle medium of change in forest ecosystems. Our Fire Plan uses this concept to structure activities to implement specific objectives that ultimately will facilitate a gradual decline of high risk conditions and facilitate a more programmatic scheduling, application, and use of fire over the Reservation landscape.

Division of Fire and Forest Development WUI and HFR 1, 161 thinned acres 708 piled acres 1, 841 PB acres 138 chipped acres 4, 846 total acres treated

Forest Development Greenhouse Growing both Tree Seedlings and Native Plants

Highway 93 Revegetation Project Memo of Agreement with the Montana Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration for the Tribes to perform salvage of native plants, grow, and plant native plants within the construction limits of the highway project. CSKT Forest Development Program will receive approximately $1. 8 Million over the next 3 years to grow plants and oversee the planting project. We plan to hire a Horticulturist and a Office Assistant.

Forest Health Mountain Pine Beetle in the N. Mission Landscape