Tribe: Fort Belknap Indian Community
View Source Document: Fort Belknap Indian Community Climate Change Adaptation Plan
Year: 2023
Topic: Forestry: Managing fire and creating habitat through thinning and controlled burns (View All Topics in the Plan)
The Fire Management Department has thinned 5,000 acres in the wildland urban interface, in the Hays and Lodge Pole area,...
The Department has also completed prescribed burns. Thinning protects forests in a warming, drying climate because overcrowding reduces tree health...
We also trap for the engraver beetle after we thin.
We let the thinning piles cure for at least six months to a year and then burn them in the...
The Fire Management Department is careful when thinning to leave dead standing trees ("habitat trees") wherever there is any evidence...
The [Fire Management] department has successfully involved some local youth in forest thinning. The department can employ 20 to 40...
