This funding supports a feasibility study to assess the ecological health of forest lands and evaluate sustainable, income-generating opportunities that ensure long-term forest stewardship and economic viability.
The Salamatof Tribe Capacity Building & Forest Innovations Planning Project improves and promotes forest health through active forest management on tribal lands and a long-term plan for the development of marketable forest products.
This project implements sustainable forest management through selective harvesting, replanting, and biodiversity protection while exploring carbon and forest product markets. This strengthens the Dot Lake tribal economy, supports Native-led stewardship, and promotes long-term forest health.
Purchase essential equipment and supplies for logging and forest monitoring operations. Activities will integrate modern tools, such as GPS mapping and drone surveys, with traditional stewardship values, ensuring environmental and cultural sustainability to support the Harvest to Home initiative.
This project establishes a LiDAR-based forest inventory and growth modeling system to create a baseline dataset that enables complex economic, ecological, and cultural analysis to guide strategic management decisions relating to conventional and emerging carbon, water and biodiversity markets.
This project supports a feasibility study of the Lake Talawanda watershed to improve water quality, collect baseline data, and enhance land use for the benefit of Choctaw Nation, tribal members, and the nearby community.
This project establishes culturally informed, regenerative, and less harmful economic development by utilizing the natural resources of tribal trust lands through forestry and other agribusiness-focused pursuits.
This project increases capacity of acreage treated within Siletz Tribal lands for cultural and prescribed fire, and begins research into a new carbon sequestration market through prescribed burning by blending traditional ecological practices, soil science, and sustainable forest management.
This project establishes a Section 17 tribally chartered enterprise to produce biochar from invasive forest fuels, integrate Traditional Ecological Knowledge, reduce forest fire risk, create skilled jobs, and generate long-term economic and ecological benefits for the Pueblo of Cochiti.