Topic: Ensure the health and productivity of natural resources in forest and range systems in the face of changing fire regimes.

Associated Climate Resilience Actions:
Blackfeet Nation

Protect Lodgepole Pine, especially young stands, using appropriate hazard fuel reduction in adjacent stands and alter fire management plans to...

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Blackfeet Nation

Coordinate grazing so as to reduce the harmful impacts of increasing range fire.

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Blackfeet Nation

Protect forest resources in the face of increasing pest and fungal infestations, working with an entomologist to evaluate infestation risk...

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Blackfeet Nation

Collaborate with partners to evaluate whitebark pine genetic stock on the reservation.

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Blackfeet Nation

Research White Pine Blister Rust (Cronartium ribicola) to isolate from Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) and understand the impacts of...

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Blackfeet Nation

Obtain maps of whitebark pine stands.

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Blackfeet Nation

Protect disease resistant whitebark pine trees from fire and beetles.

Ecosystems
Blackfeet Nation

Evaluate limber pine populations along the front and take actions to protect key populations from fire and disease.

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Blackfeet Nation

Shape Forestry and Fire Management Plans to create more heterogeneity with a mosaic of forest patches differing in age structure...

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Blackfeet Nation

Targeted application of prescribed fire, mechanical thinning, plantings, and restoration.

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Blackfeet Nation

Identify and pursue different funding mechanisms (e.g. Reserve Treaty Right Lands funding).

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Blackfeet Nation

Shape Forestry and Fire Management Plans in light of climate Actions, evaluating annual allowable harvest and working with wildlife departments...

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