Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians

Our project will support the development program capacity to monitor biodiversity and carbon hemiboreal forests in the 1836 Treaty Ceded Territory with a focus on Sault Tribe's Shingle Bay Preserve as a demonstration site

staff salaries to work on forest management planning, including a simple feasibility assessment regarding Sault Tribe's pursuit of community forest and landscape-scale restoration program funding.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) create a tribal Vegetation Ecology Program leveraging and building upon active co-management and co-stewardship efforts, 2) create a decision-support framework for newly rematriated tribal lands and waters, and 3) increase collaboration with Ceded-Territory landowners to support Sault Tribe stewardship and responsibilities across land tenures.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) create capacity to demonstrate Anishinaabe stewardship on tribal and adjacent lands by carbon and biodiversity market participation with tribal values, 2) create a suite of metrics for carbon and biodiversity monitoring, and 3) create a report that details the identified metrics and methods for community engagement in monitoring and decision-making.

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