Topic: Ensure the health and productivity of natural resources in forest and range systems in the face of changing fire regimes.
Protect Lodgepole Pine, especially young stands, using appropriate hazard fuel reduction in adjacent stands and alter fire management plans to...
Coordinate grazing so as to reduce the harmful impacts of increasing range fire.
Protect forest resources in the face of increasing pest and fungal infestations, working with an entomologist to evaluate infestation risk...
Collaborate with partners to evaluate whitebark pine genetic stock on the reservation.
Research White Pine Blister Rust (Cronartium ribicola) to isolate from Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) and understand the impacts of...
Obtain maps of whitebark pine stands.
Protect disease resistant whitebark pine trees from fire and beetles.
Evaluate limber pine populations along the front and take actions to protect key populations from fire and disease.
Shape Forestry and Fire Management Plans to create more heterogeneity with a mosaic of forest patches differing in age structure...
Targeted application of prescribed fire, mechanical thinning, plantings, and restoration.
Identify and pursue different funding mechanisms (e.g. Reserve Treaty Right Lands funding).
Shape Forestry and Fire Management Plans in light of climate Actions, evaluating annual allowable harvest and working with wildlife departments...