Topics Featured In The Plan:

• Coordinate with Forestry to implement wildlife-related best management practices.
• Understand population dynamics of a variety of birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians in light of stressors including climate change and human disturbance.
• Maintain wildlife populations and habitat and limit disturbance in the face of changing climatic conditions
• Build a healthy partnership with the Oil and Gas Department and Blackfeet Forestry
• Educate and promote an understanding of connectivity, climate change adaptation, and wildlife.
• Understand and maintain the integrity of core habitat areas in the Blackfeet Nation in the face of climate change to better protect them
• Protect ecological connectivity to ensure that fauna can adapt to climate change.
• Maintain healthy grasslands
• Reduce the frequency of higher-intensity floods in order to reduce erosion, property damage, and habitat damage or change
• Assess floodplain to mitigate future property damage.
• Promote regeneration of aquifers through strategic water storage, irrigation, and land use.
• Reduce and mitigate human-wildlife conflict
• Ensure the health and productivity of natural resources in forest and range systems in the face of changing fire regimes.
• Address wildland-urban interface issues to protect communities from increasing fire risk.
• Increase air quality monitoring.
• Increase monitoring of vectors and vector-borne diseases.
• Increase community awareness of climate-related health risks and adaptation techniques.
• Explore ways to reduce mosquito populations near homes, schools, and places of work.
• Improve air quality in the Blackfeet Nation.
• Enhance medical service provision for people with medical conditions related to air quality or vector-borne diseases.
• Ensure healthy habitat for fish and maintain healthy fish populations.
• Protect recreational fishing opportunities.
• Improve land governance
• Assess quality and quantity of fish habitat in lakes and streams.
• Encourage independence from commodity markets to support stable tribal markets.
• Use incentives to promote high nutrition crops and food production.
• Manage water in a way that will support crop production
• Support healthy livestock operations.
• Restore and protect waterways and wetlands.
• Create and protect wildlife habitat.
• Utilize sustainable energy for agricultural operations.
• Promote healthy ecosystems.
• Change the eligibility requirements with USDA programs so they are aligned with trust land management complexities.
• Utilize traditional ecological knowledge to augment conservation practices.
• Promote crops and farming practices with high ecological value.
• Create an environment where producers can be more profitable.
• Promote soil health