Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe

The CRST, Land Office will use this project to build knowledge and resources to assist with management of tribal grasslands, looking to restore a healthy ecosystem. This will be done through the development of management plan that will include leveraging relationships with tribal, federal and industry entities.

This project will increase the Tribe's natural resource management capacity and help develop a trained workforce to better manage its treaty territory in the Black Hills that are now encompassed by federal lands by creating co-management agreements with the federal agencies currently managing them including the USFS and the NPS.

Travel Scholarship to attend NAFWS Annual conference

Travel Scholarship to attend NAFWS Annual Conference

COVID-19 Response

COVID-19 Response

The final goal of this project is to develop a conservation agreement with and approved by Tribal Council establishing a means or instrument to provide for continuous reservation ferret recovery sites insuring the availability of habitat for future introductions on alternative sites.

The goal of this project will be to obtain enough Tribal lands that can support a self-sustaining population of Black-footed Ferrets. This will be accomplished by utilizing an untapped natural resource, prairie dog colonies, a keystone specie, for ferret habitat and to retain control of native species of concern in the event of future listing of the prairie dog under the Endangered Species act by protecting and entering into agreements with Federal U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service honoring Tribal sovereignty. It is an objective to seek out funding sources to leverage project funds to obtain long term funds.