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...
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...
Assess forest conditions to identify which areas are best suited to timber activity, thinning, and the application of fire.
Continue to develop partnerships that allow for interagency collaboration on fire management, engaging with fire experts at Helena-Lewis and Clark...
Include climate information in upcoming Forestry and Fire Management Plans.
Better integrate the Forestry and Fire Management Plans, perhaps to create a Fuels Management plan.
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.